27 May 2013

Regulatory enforcement & white collar

Starting Area/Sector information

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 experts 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 across different jurisdictions.

We have experience of all the key areas of business and financial services regulation and we can advise on regulatory enforcement and criminal investigations into corporate activity across multiple jurisdictions. We also have expertise in the recovery of the proceeds of fraud through civil court actions and liaising with criminal investigators.

Our clients in these fields include leading businesses and global financial institutions, professional bodies, governments and international organisations, as well as individuals from the business community and public bodies.

International expertise

Our aim across our international network of offices is to combine first class local expertise with the ability to provide a cross-border team that can manage complex multi-jurisdictional projects.

Our criminal expertise centres on financial and economic crime and extends to many other types of corporate crime, such as corruption. 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.

We have represented leading clients in proceedings involving law enforcement agencies, regulators, and other investigators in the US, the EU, the Middle East and Asia.

The team includes former regulators and prosecutors from many different agencies.

FCA and PRA Skilled Person Panel

As from 1 April 2013, Clifford Chance was appointed to the FCA and PRA Skilled Person Panel in the following areas:

  • Client Assets
  • Governance, Control And Risk Management Frameworks
  • Financial Crime
  • Prudential: Deposit Takers and Recognised Clearing Houses

Please click the FCA and PRA websites to see the Panel in full. Please contact Carlos Conceicao for more details.