Sandra Dawn Grannum is a Partner in the Business Litigation Group at Faegre Drinker Biddle & Reath LLP where she serves on the Firm’s governing board and is co-chair of the Firm’s nationwide Securities and Financial Services Litigation Team. Sandy is a Fellow of the American College of Trial Lawyers and concentrates her practice on securities, broker/dealer arbitration, litigation, mediation and regulatory defense. Sandy has written and lectured widely on securities and ethics issues. She assists in preparing clients for SEC Regulation Best Interest and Interpretation RIA. She chairs the full-day PLI Securities Arbitration Seminar conducted annually in New York City and regularly speaks at the SIFMA C&L Annual Conference, ABA Conferences and on other CLE programs addressing securities, broker-dealer and employment law issues. Sandy was one of 13 individuals on the FINRA Dispute Resolution Task Force. FINRA impaneled this group to collaborate and suggest strategies to enhance the transparency, impartiality, and efficiency of FINRA's securities dispute resolution forum for all participants. On December 16, 2015, the task force issued its recommendations detailed in the Final Report and Recommendations of the FINRA Dispute Resolution Task Force. Sandy earned her law degree from Harvard Law School and her bachelor’s degree from New York University. She began her career as a litigation associate at the New York law firm of Cravath, Swaine & Moore before moving to Tenzer Greenblatt to practice securities litigation. 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 UBS’s Employment Law Unit. In 2003, she formed her own firm, Davidson & Grannum, with a former PaineWebber/UBS colleague. She joined Drinker in January 2016 and that firm merged to become Faegre Drinker in February 2020.