Sinead McLaughlin is a lawyer with a broad commercial disputes practice. She has a particular focus on supporting clients in the financial services and tech sectors in crisis management situations and in complex multi-party disputes and litigation.

Her work often requires her to work across a range of practice areas, conducting internal investigations, advising clients in relation to investigations by regulators and other authorities, and acting in any subsequent litigation. Sinead has significant experience working in-house, including a long secondment at a leading global investment bank where she advised the bank on a range of contentious commercial and regulatory matters, and to a global e-commerce company where she advised on contentious data and privacy issues.

Her regulatory enforcement experience includes acting in investigations alleging market abuse, systems and controls failings, financial reporting errors and GDPR compliance; in litigation she has acted in large claims relating to data and privacy issues, mis-selling, allegations of anti-competitive behavior, and a range of contractual disputes and tortious actions.

Sinead is the Chair of the firm's EMEA Women’s Forum, a co-Chair of the firm's global Mental Health and Wellness Committee, and is also a member of the Covington’s Diversity, Equity and Inclusion Committee in EMEA.