Fraud can destroy trust, throw carefully laid plans into chaos and undermine an organization’s collective identity, culture and values.
It’s the last thing your business needs - but if it does occur, you need a legal team equipped for the challenge. Our dedicated fraud and financial crime lawyers act for corporate clients and individual board members in the financial services, energy, oil and gas, construction, utilities, transport, media, leisure and education sectors.
With extensive experience at the highest level, especially in financial services, we regularly advise major financial institutions. We have built strong relationships with key prosecuting bodies, which helps ensure a harmonious joint approach if you’ve become the subject of regulatory investigations or prosecution. We can give your in-house fraud and compliance teams dedicated support if they’re conducting internal investigations or dealings with law enforcement agencies and regulators.
We’re a truly global law firm, so if you’re facing issues from overseas regulators, investigators or prosecutors, we’re already plugged into those networks. We’ve helped our clients trace and recover millions of pounds in misappropriated assets, often from overseas jurisdictions. And our experience is not confined to litigation; we can advise you on money laundering systems, asset tracing, anti-bribery and corruption programs, whistle-blowing systems and other systems and controls to avoid corporate fraud.
Our team can help your business build up resilience to these risks too. We’ll put our legal experience to good use and design compliance and training programs for you around issues like bribery, corruption and money laundering, as well as internal corporate governance. Our focus is always on helping your business take the right steps to minimize liability and risk, protect your reputation, and get on with doing what you do best.
Our Fraud capability in Ireland
Our experienced fraud and financial crime lawyers in Ire;and are able to advise you on cross-border investigations, procedures compliance issues and litigation. Our team has extensive experience, helping you with regulatory requirements, limiting reputational damage and help avoiding costly litigation. Whether you are a financial services provider, insurance company, charity, pharmaceutical company, corporate or public body, we can help you navigate any fraud or financial crime issues in Ireland and overseas.
Our lawyers are experienced in all aspects of fraud and financial crime.
Our recent experience includes advising:
- a communications regulator for Ireland in regulatory investigations and prosecutions of regulated entities in respect of their obligations under telecoms law
- a regulator for residential tenancies in Ireland, providing a range of advice including the introduction of administrative sanctions procedure and prosecutorial function
- a multinational professional services partnership in Commercial Court proceedings brought by the Irish Bank Resolution Corporation relating to the client’s role as former auditor of Anglo Irish Bank plc (as it was then known)
- the regulators of occupational pension schemes in Ireland on its first ever dawn raid
- a digital marketing agency in a large misfeasance/corruption claim
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