Regulatory enforcement & white collar

Clifford Chance's global regulatory enforcement and white collar group is a core team of specialist partners and associates whose practice focuses on regulatory and compliance problems. We are able to assemble teams of specialists who have the skills and experience to help you manage the significant legal, commercial and reputational risks that are often associated with regulatory and white collar crime issues. We are leaders in these fields, and we are known and respected by regulators and industry groups in many jurisdictions.

We have experience of all the key areas of corporate, business and financial services regulation and we can advise on all aspects of regulatory enforcement, criminal investigations, fraud, crime and anti-money laundering work across multiple jurisdictions.  We also have expertise in the recovery of the proceeds of fraud through civil court actions and liaison with criminal investigators.  Our clients in these fields include leading businesses and global financial institutions, professional bodies, governments and public agencies, as well as individuals who face the risk of criminal or regulatory liability.

International expertise

Our aim across all of our international network of offices is to combine first class local expertise with the ability to provide teams across borders to manage complex multi-jurisdictional projects.

Our regulatory expertise of the financial services market and other industries as well as governing listed companies and other market policy-makers.  Our criminal expertise centres on financial and economic crime but extends to all other types of corporate crime and criminal investigations.

We have particular experience of acting for banks and corporations in cross-border investigations into breaches of securities law, misselling, market abuse, money laundering, compliance failings and economic sanctions contraventions. 

The matters in which we work often involve regulators and prosecutors in the US, the EU, the Middle East and Asia.

Our team includes former regulators and prosecutors.