Investigations

Our work includes matters relating to:

• Advising corporates and other large organisations on the legal and regulatory risks of matters under investigation
  Scoping internal investigations and creating investigation strategies
• Planning and leading investigations into suspected internal misconduct, regulatory breaches and criminal offences, both domestic and international
• Conducting and overseeing all stages of an investigation, including forensic document review, interviews with witnesses and subjects, risk assessments, policy and procedure analysis and reporting
• Investigating alleged misconduct on MDB-financed projects
• Negotiation with external stakeholders including business partners, regulators and law enforcement with a view to exploring settlement or self-reporting
• Advising and representing individuals who are the subject of, or witnesses in, internal investigations
• Advising and representing whistleblowers, in their dealings both with their employers and with external regulators or law enforcement
• Advising on the redesign of integrity compliance programmes in response to investigations, and leading the redesign itself

Members of our Business Crime and Regulation team have been involved in numerous investigations for clients from the UK and elsewhere, including:

• Inquiries for a multinational healthcare products and medical devices group into allegations of corporate fraud, bribery and money laundering in the UK, US and Greece, involving challenges to the admissibility of material including a US DPA.
• Leading an internal investigation into alleged fraud at the Asian Regional Office of a UN-specialised agency headquartered in Geneva;
• Post-settlement international investigations following red flag reviews as agreed with the World Bank Group and the
• African Development Bank Group;
• Advice on the scope of an internal investigation for a multinational corporate spanning several jurisdictions, and on witness interviews and privilege issues;
• Advice to a FTSE 250 company on the AML and bribery & corruption implications of an internal investigation;
• Advising on and undertaking an inquiry into allegations of misconduct (including sexual harassment) levelled at a director of a leading UK technology firm;
• Multiple members of Chambers are instructed on the Dame Linda Dobbs Review, which considers whether issues relating to HBOS Reading were investigated and appropriately reported to authorities at the time by Lloyds Bank Group following its acquisition of HBOS.