Christine Edwards, a corporate partner in the firm’s Chicago office, is chair of the firm’s bank regulatory practice. She focuses on the regulation of the financial services industry—including the securities, banking and insurance industries—as well as corporate governance and public and regulatory policy issues.
Christine provides proactive counsel to clients on corporate governance, public company boards of director issues, banking, insurance and securities industry regulation, risk management, consumer banking and securities transactions, and privacy and identity theft matters. She also has extensive experience supervising complex internal investigations and regulatory defense matters.
Prior to joining the firm in 2003, Christine was executive vice president and chief legal officer at Bank One Corporation, a predecessor to JPMorgan Chase, one of the nation’s largest bank holding companies. She was in charge of Bank One’s 500-person legal, compliance, government relations, and regulatory management department, with responsibility for the bank’s worldwide legal and compliance needs. Previously, she served as chief legal officer for large, international financial services firms, including, for over 10 years, Morgan Stanley.