Neil O'May

Practice Areas

Neil O'May is a corporate and white-collar crime lawyer based in London, where he leads the practice. He focuses on corporate and white collar criminal and regulatory cases, advising and defending some of the world's most prominent organizations and individuals in high-profile investigations and prosecutions.

Neil is experienced in defending prosecutions brought by the SFO, FCA, HMRC, CPS and CMA alleging bribery and corruption, international complex fraud and market abuse, and regularly deals with domestic and multinational financial and business crime investigations brought by a range of national and overseas agencies. He has extensive experience in cross-border investigations particularly those involving parallel US DoJ, European and Asian investigations. Neil also has extensive and varied experience in criminal investigations and prosecutions of tax, money laundering, cartel and insider dealing offences including for African-based logistics and supply companies. He works very closely with our global white collar and regulatory team.

In addition, Neil has extensive experience in representing clients in insider dealing and money laundering prosecutions and corporate manslaughter investigations.

Neil has been closely involved in the implementation and practice around Deferred Prosecution Agreements and has advised on company self-reports to the SFO.

Neil is recognized for his strong capabilities in the leading legal directories.