Financial Crime: Individuals | UK

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.

Kingsley Napley is 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. The firm is 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, it fields a large team of well-regarded individual lawyers.

Mishcon de Reya offers a well-regarded team that has a broad-based financial crime offering and 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.

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 in 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.

Arnold & Porter has a well-respected practice that is highlighted for its work representing senior executives and high-profile individuals in a variety of regulatory prosecutions and investigations. The firm is sought out by clients across a broad range of sectors for its counsel in cases involving the SFO, the FCA and HMRC.

Stokoe Partnership has a respected practice which is recognised for its representation of clients facing investigation by the SFO, the NCA and HMRC. The team is noted for its particular expertise in cases involving allegations of bribery, corruption and money laundering. The firm is also adept at handling cases with complex cross-border considerations.