We help our clients conduct and manage internal investigations effectively.
Expert legal advice can guide you through an investigation by an external agency and prevent disruption and damage to your business.
We provide a thorough, independent and impartial investigation service to help you uncover and resolve issues affecting your business, fulfil legal obligations and protect your reputation.
Our investigations practice is made up of highly experienced lawyers from our employment, regulatory, housing and regeneration, charity and financial litigation teams.
We support on internal investigations issues such as safeguarding, whistleblowing and discrimination claims, fraud and financial reporting issues, competition and anti-trust violations, tax law and securities violations, money laundering, bribery and corruption allegations, and management misconduct.
We can also guide you through investigations by external bodies such as regulators, the police or accreditation providers to ensure that your business reputation is preserved and to minimise the commercial impact of such an investigation.
Our team has also acted on civil fraud investigations and actions including employee embezzlement actions and ‘team move’ unlawful act conspiracies, advising from the investigatory stages (including search and seize orders) through to asset recovery actions across multiple jurisdictions.
Our team provides follow-up work arising from the investigation including cross-jurisdiction civil proceedings to recover data/documents/money and private prosecutions as an alternative or in addition to civil recovery proceedings.
We recognise that in the digital era, an investigation in one jurisdiction has global consequences. Our international legal network spans multiple jurisdictions helping you to protect your reputation worldwide.
We act across a range of sectors including charities, housing associations, local authorities professional and financial services, manufacturing and supply chain and retail. Our clients include organisations of all sizes from SMEs and owner-managed businesses to multinational companies.
We have extensive experience of Public Inquiries and our lawyers have acted in the role of Solicitor to prominent Public Inquiries and have acted for Core Participants in a range of other Inquiries, including Baha Mousa, Al-Sweady and the Independent Inquiry into Child Sexual Abuse.
