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Corporate Crime & Investigations - London (Firms)

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What the Team is Known For

Slaughter and May is a popular choice for a raft of household-name entities including banks, manufacturers and government departments. The firm offers first-rate experience in dealing with high-profile investigations by major prosecutors, including the SFO and the FCA, and is accomplished in cross-border regulatory investigations involving alleged rate manipulation, as well as sanctions matters. The team is also well versed in the interaction between civil litigation and corporate financial crime.

Work Highlights

  • Slaughter and May defended Bombardier in a Serious Fraud Office investigation into suspected bribery and corruption relating to Garuda Indonesia. The matter closed without charge.

Strengths

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Notable Practitioners

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Jonathan Cotton
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Jonathan Cotton is co-head of the firm's global investigations group. He acts for multinational corporations on an array of financial crime matters including SFO and internal investigations into corruption, fraud and misconduct. He also advises on DPAs with foreign authorities.

Jonathan Cotton is very forthcoming, truly available and was guiding us in a very expert way and the insight he gave us was very strong from a strategy perspective.

Jonathan is excellent and exceptional.

Richard Swallow
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Richard Swallow
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Richard Swallow routinely acts for major corporations in financial crime matters. He has significant expertise acting in SFO investigations into allegations of bribery and corruption.

Richard is a white-collar superstar. Richard Swallow is one of the leading industry experts on investigations and advising on all aspects of economic crime.

He's in a class of his own on the investigations side. He is practical, down to earth, provides robust advice and stands out.

Richard is first-class. He is commercial, pragmatic, provides clear and concise advice and is fun to work with.

Jonathan Clark
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Jonathan Clark
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Jonathan Clark acts on large SFO investigations and internal investigations surrounding bribery and corruption allegations, with further experience of market manipulation issues.

Jonathan is extremely knowledgeable in all aspects of corporate crime. He regularly provides us with practical advice, demonstrating great commercial awareness, responsiveness and efficiency.

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Jonathan Cotton
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Richard Swallow
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Richard Swallow
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Jonathan Clark
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Jonathan Clark
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