UK London (Firms) Financial Crime: Individuals

BCL Solicitors is a premier outfit with an excellent reputation for its representation of individuals including company directors, officers and employees. It offers a large team with extensive experience in handling high-profile SFO investigations. The team also frequently advises on complex commercial fraud, regulatory enforcement and money laundering cases and is adept at dealing with extradition matters related to financial crime investigations.

Corker Binning presents a compact and highly reputed business crime practice. The team advises individuals, including company executives, implicated in widely reported criminal and regulatory investigations, acting for clients across a wide range of sectors, including financial services, energy, and oil and gas. Corker Binning displays an impressive range of experience in handling investigations at both national and international levels, including a number of prosecutions by the FCA, and also assists with related extradition matters.

Renowned for its command of process and procedure across a broad array of criminal and regulatory work, including professional discipline as well as financial crime. Sought out to advise on the most high-profile investigations and criminal prosecutions of the day, including SFO, FCA and CMA matters. Adept at handling multi-jurisdictional cases. Fields a large team of well-regarded individual lawyers.

Hickman & Rose is a London-based corporate crime practice acting for individuals accused of various offences including bribery, revenue fraud and regulatory breaches. Its lawyers are regularly instructed by senior professionals from large corporations involved in major SFO and HMRC investigations. The team is noted for its work in increasingly high-profile and high-value work in the financial services industry, as well as its growing presence in cross-border investigations. The firm also offers related strength in extradition matters.

Mishcon de Reya offers a well-regarded team with a broad-based financial crime offering which is adept at fraud and money laundering cases. The team fields notable expertise in anti-bribery and corruption matters as well as having a strong private prosecution practice.

The team at PCB Byrne provides highly tailored business crime representation to a range of organisations and senior professionals, mainly in the financial services sector. It has a strong reputation across financial crime including fraud, money laundering and tax investigations, with extensive expertise in corruption proceedings and regulatory investigations. A reliable choice for company executives facing potentially criminal SFO and FCA action, the team also has a strong record of acting in multi-agency rate-fixing investigations.

Peters & Peters Solicitors has a well-known financial crime practice, and was one of the earliest firms to establish itself in this field. The team has experience advising individuals on an array of business crime issues, including cartel, bribery and money laundering matters, and is also noted for its private prosecution practice. The firm is also valued for its expertise in international investigations and related extradition issues.

WilmerHale fields a well-regarded financial crime practice with an impressive record of acting on high-stakes SFO investigations. The team acts on the full range of matters in this area, fielding experience in fraud, bribery, corruption and insider dealing and has an enviable client base including energy and engineering companies. It has noted expertise in international investigations, with particular strength in matters concerning the USA.

Blackfords acts on behalf of those accused of high-level financial crime and is accomplished in defending allegations of insider trading, tax fraud and misleading corporate statements. The team also has a strong record in handling carbon credit fraud and prosecutions initiated by HMRC and is adept at handling matters with cross-border elements. The firm caters to clients around the country with offices in central London, Croydon, Woking and Cardiff.

An established team with a notable record of representing individuals facing SFO investigations, Howard Kennedy is regularly instructed in cases involving cross-border considerations. The team is capable of handling the full range of fraud matters, with particular strength in anti-money laundering, and is also experienced in cartel investigations.

The team at Paul Hastings is noted for representation of individuals, particularly in cases involving global investigations brought by the SFO, DOJ and HMRC. The team is also adept at handling matters relating to market manipulation, bribery and fraud.

Noted for its broad criminal defence practice acting on legally aided and privately funded work, the Bark&co team is valued for its expertise across financial crime. It is experienced advising on alleged financial trading offences such as insider dealing as well as bribery and tax frauds prosecuted by HMRC.

Bindmans concentrates on high-exposure fraud matters, with a wealth of experience in jury trial work, and is highly regarded for its legal aid practice as well as its work for private clients. The team is experienced across the full range of criminal fraud and regulatory investigations and is also adept at bribery and corruption cases.

Hodge Jones & Allen is committed to handling legal aid-funded and privately funded matters in the financial crime space. The team is regularly instructed in high-level investigations led by the SFO, HMRC and the FCA, including cases involving allegations of bribery and corruption. Hodge Jones & Allen also fields experience in defending money laundering prosecutions and is well acquainted with related confiscation matters.

Simons Muirhead Burton offers a respected team which is noted for its handling of international investigations into market manipulation, money laundering and fraud. The team is also active in cases brought by the SFO, HMRC, the NCA and the FCA, including those alleging bribery and insider trading.

Stephenson Harwood's respected financial crime practice defends individuals in major investigatory proceedings and in internal investigations. The team is well versed in all aspects of fraud and has built an enviable profile acting for current and former employees of financial institutions in relation to allegations of illegal rate manipulation. Stephenson Harwoord draws on noted regulatory expertise to provide a well-integrated service to clients from the financial services sector.