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Provided by Rebecca Chalkley KC
Practice Areas
Rebecca specialises in all areas of financial (white-collar) crime, corporate wrongdoing (both civil and criminal) and regulatory matters (financial, medical and environmental). As Standing Counsel to the Department for Business (BIES) & the Insolvency Service, Rebecca has a vast experience of bankruptcy and liquidation and regularly advises the department on the most complicated issues of policy and their prosecutions. She was named The Times Lawyer of the Week in April 2022 for her successful prosecution of Boris Becker. Her areas of expertise include Insider Dealing, Bribery & Corruption (international and domestic), money laundering and tax fraud (direct and indirect), fraudulent trading, financial vehicles (on and off-shore). Rebecca has been instructed in various cases which resulted in Deferred Prosecutions Agreements (DPA). Including the largest to date. She has been instructed in some of the largest Private Prosecutions that have appeared in the UK courts and has acted in these for both individuals and corporates. Rebecca is well known for her expertise in all matters connected to disclosure (criminal & civil matters). She co-authored with Brian Altman KC the independent review into the collapse of the SFO case R v Woods & Marshall (SERCO). She regularly advises on complex matters regarding LPP in both the civil and criminal jurisdictions. She was included in The Lawyer’s Hot 100 list for 2023. She is a member of the LexisNexis Corporate Crime Consulting Editorial Board.
Professional Memberships
St Hilda’s College, Oxford, Law Network, SEC MC CBA FLA ARDL Private Prosecutors Association FSLA Female Fraud Forum