Sandra Dawn Grannum

Sandy graduated from Harvard Law School. She was a litigation associate at the New York law firm of Cravath, Swaine & Moore for six years and thereafter was a securities litigator at Tenzer Greenblatt. Sandy moved in-house to be an Associate General Counsel handling securities litigation at PaineWebber (now UBS Financial Services) in 1997. In November 2001, she became Senior Vice President and Senior Associate General Counsel in its Employment Law Unit and assisted in managing that unit's litigation case load. She serves on the Securities Arbitration Committee of the American Bar Association and formerly sat as one of the Industry Members to the Financial Institution Regulatory Association National Arbitration and Mediation Committee. Sandy has tried numerous complex arbitrations involving actual losses of millions of dollars, as well as many employment arbitrations. She has represented a number of corporate clients in Federal Courts across the country, before the EEOC and State Divisions and Commissions of Human Rights, and in adversarial proceeding in Bankruptcy Court in securities and employment related matters. She has also extensive experience representing clearing brokers. She has been an advocate in many complex mediations. She has also handled a variety of complex general litigation matters. Sandy also chaired the Diversity Committee for UBS Financial Services' Legal department where she developed and implemented its MCCA award winning program. She has written and lectured widely on securities and ethics issues. She also has been involved in developing compliance programs in response to the Sarbanes-Oxley legislation.