Sheila Tendy

Sheila Tendy, a native New Yorker, advises corporations, not for profits and financial institutions as outside general counsel. Ms. Tendy’s practice also focuses on operational risk, regulatory and corporate compliance, monitorships and independent investigations. Ms. Tendy’s practical understanding of risk and policy helps navigate clients through troubled waters to restore credibility and stay operationally sound. She is a former counsel to the Department of Financial Services, as well as a former prosecutor with the Manhattan District Attorney’s Office. Ms. Tendy has also worked outside of the practice of law in the equities divisions of global financial institutions on Wall Street, including S.G. Warburg and Deutsche Bank. Ms. Tendy has handled a broad range of regulatory and enforcement matters including those involving failed or troubled banks, high-level insiders, money laundering, foreign exchange trading, foreign corrupt practices, loan fraud, hidden trading losses, and stock manipulation. While at the Department of Financial Services, Ms. Tendy oversaw complex investigations of criminal activity in both foreign and domestic banks for enforcement actions and prosecution. She also helped create a multi-agency mortgage-fraud task force. Ms. Tendy later spearheaded the Banking and Financial Services Group of an international investigative consulting firm where she helped banks and other financial institutions address a wide range of matters requiring independent investigations, regulatory compliance, interaction with regulators and law enforcement, and advice on anti-money laundering and risk management programs. Ms. Tendy has written extensively about fraud in mortgage-backed securities, the financial crisis of 2008, and policy issues in not for profits. Ms. Tendy has presented on subjects including interacting with regulators during internal investigations, anti-money laundering compliance, and fraud in the secondary mortgage market. The New England School of Law 1991 New York University 1984