Investigations, Inquiries, Compliance.
Handled. With Care.

If you're facing an investigation, enforcement action, public inquiry, or complex regulatory or compliance matter, it is imperative to know that your legal advisers are not only highly experienced, but are also deeply invested and personally available to you at every step.

Our Global Investigations group is a multi-disciplinary team which covers financial crime, corporate crime/sanctions regulatory compliance and a wide range of investigation, enforcement and prosecution issues. We advise on risk management and the resolution of crisis events, as well as offering bespoke training for your board and legal teams.

Over the last three years, over 300 major organisations – including over 25 FTSE 350 businesses – have relied on us to support them with investigations and related advisory and compliance matters across the UK and around the globe including in Ireland, Germany, France, the Middle East, and Asia.

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With complex laws to navigate, businesses and reputations to manage, and senior stakeholders to guide, we are there 24/7 to help clients navigate the twists and turns of any investigation or inquiry as you achieve the best possible outcome.

Our dedicated team of over 45 international investigations and compliance specialists represent clients throughout some of the most challenging periods that they will confront. We guide risk and compliance teams, in-house counsel and boards of directors as they steer a route through the intricate legal and regulatory landscape surrounding businesses today. We also help individuals through serious challenges, such as sensitive corporate crime and professional conduct matters.

We help our clients to avoid criminal law risks, improve their internal systems, conduct internal investigations, bring private prosecutions, liaise with law enforcement agencies and regulators, and deal with regulatory interventions and prosecutions. We advocate for them during public inquiries, hearings and inquests. We help them build and enhance their businesses in a compliance-focussed way.

Consistently ranked in Global Investigations Review's (GIR) Top 100 firms, as well as all major legal directories, we employ top calibre people and take on market-leading mandates. Above all, we put your best interests at the heart of what we do.

More detail on our key areas of strength

Internal & External Investigations

Helping businesses to protect themselves and their employees when problems emerge and preventing any allegation from becoming a crisis. Working with you to conduct robust internal investigations into a range of potential misconduct. Guiding you through every stage of a whistleblow; a supervisory, regulatory or criminal investigation and/or enforcement action across a host of offences and infractions.

Financial Services: Contentious Regulatory

Advising financial institutions across the full range of contentious regulatory issues including: market abuse, non-financial misconduct, AML systems and controls, complaints handling and more.

Compliance & Advisory

Supporting your business across the compliance risk landscape: from avoiding economic and financial crime taking place in your business to managing financial services, environmental and other regulatory risk, quality assuring your compliance framework and ensuring the safety and security of your employees, customers, buildings and products.

Health, Safety & Environment

From proactive advice through to crisis management in the aftermath of the most serious incidents, we guide our corporate and governmental clients and senior individuals through the regulatory landscape within a wide range of contexts. Our team boasts experts in health & safety; food safety and hygiene; building, fire, product, food and venue safety and security; ESG and environmental risk and liability.

Private Prosecutions

Helping our clients to navigate the whole private prosecution process from advice and investigation through to criminal and/or civil proceedings, and any asset tracing, confiscation and enforcement.

Public Inquiries

Advising and representing individuals and organisations involved in public inquiries, whether as witnesses or core participants; providing support on the broad issues arising from a public inquiry including: reputation management, funding to support participation, insurance, governance, witness evidence, factual analysis, warning letters and final reports through to associated litigation, both civil and criminal in nature.

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DPA negotiated with the CPS

45+ Global Investigations specialists around our International network

8 years ranked in Global Investigations Review's top 100 guide as a leading corporate investigation firm

Recognised by Legal 500 Germany 2024 as a "Firm to Watch" for internal investigations and compliance

In a UK-first, we advised Entain on its negotiation of a Deferred Prosecution Agreement with the Crown Prosecution Service. Read the full case study here >

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25+ FTSE clients advised in the last 2 years

300+ organisations supported in the last 3 years

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