Compliance Monitor
Shard CEO fined and banned for misleading a client's auditors and accountants
The founder and former CEO of a City-based firm of asset managers has been banned and fined £120,300 by the FCA after the provision of incorrect information to auditors of a corporate client.
By Neasa MacErlean
The information given out by James Lewis of Shard Capital Partners resulted in the accounts for two years being restated and
the resignation of the auditors. Mr Lewis, now 59, still appears on
Companies House recordsas a director or LLP designated member of 13 organisations, including three that include the name Shard.