Iona Levine

Iona Levine is a lawyer who specialises in financial services law and regulation and one of the original founders of London-based barristers set, Minerva Chambers.

In recent years, Iona has worked on an inquiry into fraud and corruption at a major UK bank and has done a lot of work to help build financial markets infrastructure in countries such as Lebanon, Dubai (she helped to set up the original Dubai International Financial Exchange which was subsequently bought by NASDAQ), Kazakhstan and Mongolia.

Iona also worked to reconcile differences between the US Dodd-Frank program – a set of regulations that were enacted to reform the US financial system after the 2008 global financial crisis – and the EU legislative program. She is a former group general counsel of a key piece of financial markets infrastructure (now owned by the London Stock Exchange) and was one of the first lawyers in London to put Lehman’s into default.