Business Crime & Regulatory.
Our legal specialists can guide you through dealings with regulatory requirements in your sector, alleged fraud investigations, compliance, prosecutions and financial crime.
Investigations cause disruption to your business.
We can help minimise disruption and reach the best outcome.
Our expert Business Crime Team provides specialist legal advice. In the event of regulatory offence we can cover everything from initial discussions with regulatory bodies through to accompanying you to any Interview under Caution.
Effective corporate governance means taking a positive and proactive approach to compliance.
We recognise that there are an increasing number of laws that businesses can fall foul of, which can result in a prosecution by both the Police or other regulatory bodies including:
Local Authorities such as Trading Standards and Environmental Health
Health and Safety Executive
Fire and Rescue Authorities
Serious Fraud Office
Information Commissioner
Environment Agency
Specialist Legal Advice
Businesses can find themselves facing unlimited fines, costs orders, bad press and a loss of reputation in the event of conviction. Directors of companies can also find themselves being personally prosecuted if the act or default of their Company is, in some way, their fault. The best course of action, if you have any doubts as to your duties and responsibilities, is to seek expert legal advice and guidance.
Our expert Business Crime Team provides specialist legal advice in relation to a range of regulatory offences covering everything from initial discussions with regulatory bodies on your behalf through to accompanying you to any Interview under Caution. We can sometimes persuade the regulatory body concerned not to prosecute you or to reduce the number of charges you may face. At Court we can also offer mitigation on your behalf so that any punishment is minimised and defend cases for you where it is appropriate to do so.
Our Business Crime legal advice covers:
Trading standards
Food safety
Environmental health
Housing standards
Benefit fraud
Planning enforcement
Private hire
Pollution
Health and safety
Fire safety
The process including investigation, prosecution and proceeds of crime
Working With Our Service Team
We take great care to always ensure that you are properly advised on the merits and the risks of starting or resisting claims and are on hand to advise and negotiate on your behalf. Our approach is always transparent and we rigorously pursue our clients’ objectives, always with commercial success in mind.
- Charlotte Clode
If you have an enquiry in relation to Litigation or want to speak to a member of our expert team, please get in touch.
