Sabine Dittrich

Head EU, Financial Regulation at Slaughter and May

Speaker

Sabine Dittrich heads up the EU Financial Regulation practice of Slaughter and May in London and Brussels and is a member of its Financial Regulation, Financial Institutions and Sustainability Groups.

Sabine has extensive experience in advising banks, insurers, market infrastructure operators, asset managers and private equity firms on a broad spectrum of prudential, conduct-related, and contentious regulatory matters. As former Global Head of Regulatory Intelligence and Head of EU Public Policy at UBS, she has more than a decade of experience in senior in-house roles in Zurich and London managing relationships, among others, with EU regulators and EU institutions and delivering executive advice in the context of corporate restructuring, regulatory change, and investigations. Her particular areas of focus in the last few years have included sustainability, governance, and emerging technology. Previously, Sabine spent seven years in the Financial Institutions Group of another leading U.K. law firm in Germany.

Sabine has been appointed as a member of the Consultative Working Group of ESMA’s Investment Management Standing Committee in Paris since June 2024 and previously was a member of the Board of the European Fund and Asset Management Association (EFAMA) in Brussels and of the Executive Committee of the Asset Management division of the International Capital Market Association (ICMA) in London / Zurich. She is also co-author of the legal commentary on the German Safe Custody Act and is a frequent public speaker on risk and regulatory topics.