Kay Lackey is a Managing Director/Senior Counsel at Royal Bank of Scotland (Americas). Kay is the Head of Litigation and Regulatory Investigations for Markets and International Banking.
Prior to joining RBS, Kay worked at the Securities and Exchange Commission for 14 years. Kay joined the Commission in 1995 as a staff attorney in the Division of Enforcement in New York and was subsequently promoted. When she left the Commission, Kay was an Associate Regional Director and Co-Head of Enforcement in the New York Regional Office. While at the SEC, Kay worked on and supervised numerous enforcement actions involving a variety of areas, including financial fraud, stock options backdating, insider trading, market timing and late trading, ponzi schemes, and market manipulation.
Prior to working at the SEC, Kay was a litigation associate at Mayer Brown. Kay also clerked for the Honorable Nathaniel M. Gorton of the United States District Court for the District of Massachusetts and the Honorable Juan R. Torruella, of the United States Court of Appeals for the First Circuit. Kay received her J.D. from Boston University Law School and her B.A. from Williams College.