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Lindsay Sykes is PPO’s managing partner and leads the Compliance and International Arbitration teams.
IFLR1000 Women Leaders for 2022 recognized her as one the world’s most prominent women lawyers with outstanding reputations in their markets who have expertise on complex deals and hold leadership roles in their firms and practices.
Lindsay holds a Recommended ranking in the Investigations category of Who’s Who Legal – Lexology, indicating that she is considered a leader in this field. As part of her compliance practice, she assists clients with all aspects of risk management, including transactional M&A and third party due diligence, corruption risk assessments, and internal investigations into allegations of fraud, bribery and other corporate misconduct.
In the international arbitration realm, Lindsay advises on highly complex, high-stakes disputes. She holds a Latin American Corporate Counsel Association (LACCA) Approved rating for Arbitration, voted on by leading in-house counsel in the region. She is a national delegate for Bolivia to the ICC Commission on Arbitration and Dispute Resolution.
Lindsay is Secretary of the Board of the American Chamber of Commerce of Bolivia (Amcham Bolivia). In the academic sphere, she is a Postgraduate Professor of International Compliance and International Arbitration at the Universidad Católica Boliviana in La Paz, Bolivia.
Prior to co-founding PPO, Lindsay was an attorney with international law firms based in Washington, DC, where she represented clients in a wide range of cross-border matters, including in investigations by U.S. regulators into allegations of illegal corporate practices, as well as complex commercial disputes. She has led on-the-ground investigations for Fortune 500 companies and international financial institutions throughout the world. She is fluent in English and Spanish.
