Crisis Management
UK-wide
4 years ranked
INDIVIDUAL PROFILE
Ali Sallaway
Crisis & Risk Management 2026
Ranked in 1 practice area
About
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Practice Areas
Ali is a dispute resolution partner and co-heads Freshfields’ global investigation and corporate crime practice. She specialises in corporate and financial crime defence and regulatory enforcement actions, particularly defending actions against the SFO, FCA, and FRC as well as other domestic and overseas authorities. Ali has significant experience defending organisations in coordinated criminal and regulatory proceedings including in Deferred Prosecution Agreements as well as acting on ancillary civil litigation. Ali regularly advises Boards and Senior Management on market disclosures, general risk advisory, misconduct and governance matters. She has expertise handling false accounting, fraud, bribery/corruption, AML and CTF related matters. Ali has acted on many of the leading FCA enforcement actions, especially in financial crime, market abuse, market manipulation and disclosure/listing obligations cases.
Chambers Review
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Professional Advisers: Risk & Crisis Management
Crisis Management - UK-wide
Band 2
Individual Editorial
Ali Sallaway is co-head of the global investigations and corporate crime practice at Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer. She brings significant experience in criminal and regulatory matters to her work advising on crisis situations.
Strengths
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Ali Sallaway is calm, professional and responsive. Her expertise and experience in this area enables organisations to make informed decisions at pace, which is exactly what is needed during a crisis.
Crisis ManagementProfessional Advisers: Risk & Crisis ManagementAli Sallaway is extremely experienced, devoted to her clients, and determined to come up with new ways of thinking about things.
Crisis ManagementProfessional Advisers: Risk & Crisis ManagementAli Sallaway is very good, very sensible and her manner is delightful. She's prudent and she gives pragmatic advice. She will tell it how it is. It's always a question of giving the best and most prudent advice in a way such that the client will actually hear it. The skill is in getting people to be comfortable with making decisions; Ali's good at getting that.
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