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Johnson Winter Slattery understands the critical business and reputational risks its clients and executives face day-to-day in their transactions and business dealings. The JWS team is trusted to advise clients on some of their most sensitive issues including money laundering, bribery, corruption, fraud and false accounting, sanctions, cross-border internal and external investigations and prosecutions, privacy data breaches, human rights and modern slavery law.

JWS is recognised as providing the best practical and commercial legal solutions to help achieve business objectives. It is at the heart of the team’s approach. The practice is experienced in all aspects of white-collar criminal law defence including:

    • conducting internal and responding to external, investigations
    • money laundering and terrorism finance compliance
    • customer due diligence and reporting obligations
    • human rights and modern slavery law compliance
    • money laundering and counter-terrorism financing advice
    • proceeds of crime applications
    • Australian and international sanctions regimes
    • defending Australian companies and individuals in Australian and cross-border criminal investigations and prosecutions involving bribery and corruption
    • understanding corporate and financial regulation and acting for regulators
    • internal governance and compliance advice and training programs.

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What the Team is Known For

Johnson Winter Slattery fields a specialist group with a dedicated white-collar crime focus and broad expertise covering both Australia and numerous foreign jurisdictions. The team handles investigatory briefs and prosecutions. It also advises on policy design, coordinating as appropriate with relevant practices within the firm and international partners. The firm acts extensively for clients across a wide range of sectors including the energy and resources sector and manufacturing and finance sectors. The firm also acts individual directors and officers and is sought out by overseas regulatory authorities to assist with the development of their own anti-corruption guidelines.

Work Highlights

  • Johnson Winter Slattery provided advice on policy reform and co-led the IBA Anti-Corruption Committee Ukraine reconstruction taskforce.

Notable Practitioners

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Robert Wyld is highly respected as a leading figure in white-collar crime and is particularly noted for his expertise with regard to international issues relating to bribery and corruption.

Robert Wyld is the leading lawyer in Australia in anti-corruption and cross-border investigations. Everything he deals with is complex.

Robert is very active in connection with whistleblowing. He is a pioneer in such matters. He is also very active in the international sphere.

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