Shannon Rainey is a managing director in K2 Integrity’s Investigations and Disputes practice. Her work spans an array of investigative matters, including performing internal investigations into potential money laundering, corruption, and sanctions exposure, in addition to conducting and managing complex multijurisdictional due diligence assignments.
Before joining K2 Integrity, Shannon was the head of due diligence at a boutique investigations firm predominantly helping financial institutions to identify, understand, and respond to the risks associated with their third-party arrangements.
Shannon also served as a financial crime policy implementation manager at Santander UK. Working in a Line 1 financial crime team for the retail and business bank, she worked closely with bank leadership to help it understand and implement legal and policy requirements across anti-money laundering (AML), sanctions, and anti-bribery and corruption (ABC). Shannon’s role also involved identifying areas of noncompliance and designing and overseeing the implementation of action plans to resolve these issues.
Shannon started her career in PricewaterhouseCooper’s (PwC’s) corporate intelligence team, where she helped clients ranging from financial institutions to pharmaceutical companies meet legal and regulatory requirements as well as safeguard against any potential reputational damage as a result of their commercial relationships.
Shannon received her M.A. in modern and medieval languages from the University of Cambridge.
