Erica Handling
General Counsel EMEA, Barclays
Erica Handling is a Managing Director and General Counsel for EMEA for Investment Banking at Barclays.
Based in London, she is a member of both the EMEA Executive Committee and the Corporate and Investment Banking Global Operating Committee. She is also Co-Chair of the Investment Bank’s Women’s Initiatives Network in Europe, the Middle East and Africa and leads the Retention Workstream for the Global Infrastructure Committee of Corporate and Investment Banking.
Erica joined Barclays in 2011 from private practice where she established and was head of the Securities and Structured Finance Practice at Ashurst. Erica started her legal career at Allen & Overy and worked in both London and New York before moving to Weil, Gotshal & Manges in London where she became a partner in 1998. Her specific area of focus in private practice was derivatives and structured finance, in particular collateralised debt obligations. She was awarded Partner of the Year by The Lawyer Magazine in 2003.
Erica takes a particular interest in diversity and, in addition to her responsibilities at Barclays was a founding member of the Diversity Committee at Ashurst.