Amber Allen

As counsel in Eversheds Sutherland's Investment Services & Products practice group, Amber advises clients across the full spectrum of legal and regulatory matters, including SEC examinations, Regulation S-P safeguards and incident response obligations, portfolio management, trading, advertising, private fund formation, mergers and acquisitions, cybersecurity and data privacy compliance, and the regulatory implications of artificial intelligence and emerging technologies. She regularly counsels broker-dealers and investment advisers on implementing the enhanced safeguard and breach notification requirements under Amended Regulation S-P.

Prior to Eversheds Sutherland, Amber served as General Counsel and Executive Vice President of Fairview, LLC, a provider of comprehensive compliance consulting services for investment advisers, mutual funds, and other financial institutions. In this legal and business leadership role, she oversaw multiple teams that designed and implemented compliance programs and advised clients on regulatory requirements, examinations, and industry best practices, with a focus on large and complex registrants. She also led efforts to launch the firm’s cyber practice group, serving as President of Fairview Cyber.

Amber’s broad financial services-focused work also includes forming a legal department from the ground up and creating a corporate governance program, including implementing corporate policies and procedures pertaining to organizational cyber and data security programs, business continuity, GDPR policies and procedures, disaster recovery and incident response.

Amber currently serves on NSCP's Board of Directors, Executive Committee and is the Chair of the Governance Committee.