Corporate Crime lawyers

If your business faces allegations of illegality or other wrongdoing, whether from whistle-blowers, regulators or other authorities, you will need to act quickly to investigate and protect your corporate reputation. You will need to know how to respond to the issue in the minutes and hours after it has arisen, both internally and externally, in order to protect the business and avoid exacerbating the problem. You will also need to know how to investigate the issues, while protecting the integrity and confidentiality of the process and maximising the protection of legal privilege where available.

We work with clients of all sizes in the UK and beyond, from household names to SMEs, to resolve these difficult issues wherever in the world they occur. This may include conducting confidential internal investigations and responding to investigations by prosecutors and regulators, such as the Serious Fraud Office (SFO), Financial Conduct Authority (FCA), and environmental agencies in the UK and many others worldwide.

If there is a risk of criminal liability, we will help you protect your legitimate interests throughout the process, including on issues such as legal privilege, data protection and transfer, metadata preservation and employment issues. We help clients by managing the matter, including managing, where appropriate, other service providers such as forensic accountants, private investigators and foreign law specialists.

Through CMS Evidence, we have our own in-house data collection and hosting capability to enable fast data gathering, processing and review, and allow significant time and cost savings compared to third party providers.

We understand how stressful and time-critical these matters are, with individuals facing the prospect of losing their livelihoods or even their liberty, and we are available 24 hours a day to support you when required.

 
Louise Boswell
Louise Boswell
Partner
Solicitor Advocate
United Kingdom, London
Louise Boswell advises on disputes and dispute risk areas in a range of sectors.  She regularly acts on complex commercial contractual disputes including post-acquisition and on termination, and disputes...
Steven Corney
Steven Corney
Partner
United Kingdom, London
Steven is a commercial litigation partner with over 20 years’ experience in advising domestic and international clients on dispute resolution strategies and litigation in the English courts and before...
Karen Denny
Karen Denny
Partner
United Kingdom, London
Karen covers all areas of corporate disputes, particularly those with an international law and cross border emphasis. Her experience includes advising on matters of sovereign immunity, freezing injunctions...
Neal Gibson
Neal Gibson
Partner
United Kingdom, London
Neal is a partner in the Dispute Resolution Group.  He has a wide ranging commercial litigation and arbitration practice, representing clients in complex, high value, domestic and multi-jurisdictional...
Colin Hutton
Colin Hutton
Partner
United Kingdom, Edinburgh
Colin Hutton has over 25 years' experience in dispute avoidance and resolution. He is dual qualified and advises on both English and Scots law matters, including litigations, arbitrations and mediations...
Eoin O'Shea
Eoin O'Shea
Partner
Head of Corporate Crime Practice
United Kingdom, London
Eoin helps clients to deal decisively with high-risk issues. He advises on government and regulatory investigations, corporate criminal risks, fraud and related disputes and professional ethics. Eoin...
Omar Qureshi
Omar Qureshi
Partner
Risk
United Kingdom, London
Omar Qureshi is a partner in the Risk team of CMS Cameron McKenna Nabarro Olswang, based in the London office. His role covers the whole range of risk management, regulatory and compliance issues for...
Anuj Moudgil
Anuj Moudgil
Senior Associate
United Kingdom, London
Anuj Moudgil is a Senior Associate in the Dispute Resolution Department. Anuj has a broad base of contentious experience, having acted for clients in litigation before the English High Court and the...
Kitty St Aubyn
Kitty St Aubyn
Senior Associate
(Barrister)
United Kingdom, London
Kitty St Aubyn is a Senior Associate (Barrister) practising primarily in the CMS Corporate Crime group. Kitty specialises in advising clients on solutions to novel, complex issues, with particular expertise...
Josie Welland
Josie Welland
Senior Associate
United Kingdom, London
Josie Welland is a Senior Associate in the Technology, Media and Telecommunications team at CMS London, specialising in cybercrime and digital fraud enforcement. Josie helps clients investigate and...