Business Crime partner, Hannah Laming recently spoke at this conference, her presentation titled “Lessons learnt from the Bribery Act 2010 implementation and similar initiatives” covered: Similarities between the s7 UKBA offence and ss 44 & 45 of the Criminal Finances Bill Relevant FCA rules re systems and controls Analysis of failings identified by the FCA categorised […]
Head of International, Keith Oliver, is the chair of a presentation on day two of this three day conference, ‘Innovation in Litigation – Prepared for 2027’. Keith is the chair of the presentation titled, ‘How to adjust to Brexit’ – Confused? You will be after the next episode of Brexit….back to the future of Europe – the sage […]
Partner, Jonathan Tickner, is speaking at the ‘International Contentious Trusts and Fraud Conference: Show me the money’, in Barcelona this May. Jonathan’s discussion is titled ‘The Fraudulent settlor: obtaining information about and freezing the trusts assets‘, he is joined by John Machell QC (Serle Court) and Eleanor Morgan (Mourant Ozannes). This conference is hosted by Boodle […]
Business Crime Associate, Rachel Cook, discusses the introduction of the ‘Annual Financial Crime Report’ (REP – CRIM), to be used by the Financial Conduct Authority to gather information on financial crime. All firms subjected to the Money Laundering Regulations 2007 will have to submit a REP-CRIME to the FCA. Read Rachel’s full article in the […]
A Bloomberg commentary on the enforcement powers now available to the UK’s Office of Financial Sanctions Implementation (OFSI), ‘UK Sanctions Boss Sees US Style Results in New Powers’, speculates on whether the UK agency will seek to emulate the approach to enforcement adopted by its US counterparts. In addition to OFSI’s Head, Dr Anna Bradshaw […]
Dr. Anna Bradshaw to speak on the 28 April as part of a panel discussion titled ‘Extraterritorial reach: are there no limits?’. The panel will address extraterritorial reach and whether there are limits on such for ambiguity in the laws of countries, the reasonable standard in U.S. Supreme Court antitrust decisions, and the various means […]
Dr. Anna Bradshaw to present at day two (April 25) of this conference in Washington at 11:20am. Anna is speaking on the ‘Recent Developments in EU & UK Sanctions and Enforcement and Exploring the Differences in Risk Management and Compliance’. To see the full conference agenda and to register click here.
The 2017 edition of Getting the Deal through: Anti-Corruption Regulation, is now available online. Click to view our chapter, page 185. Reproduced with permission from Law Business Research Ltd. Getting the Deal Through: Anti-Corruption Regulation 2017, (published in February 2017; contributing editor: Homer E Moyer Jr, Miller & Chevalier Chartered). For further information please visit https://gettingthedealthrough.com/area/2/anti-corruption-regulation-2017
Business Crime partner Neil Swift, explains the danger of a defendant commenting about a trial on social media platforms such as Twitter. Neil’s comments feature in a piece published by Bloomberg titled ‘Ex-Barclays Trader Tweets rather than testifies at trial.’ This piece discusses tweets from former trader, Stylianos Contogoulas’s personal twitter account during the time of the trial. Neil comments […]
Business Crime Associate, Miranda Ching, represents David Hughes, a British kayaking instructor accused of causing the death of Private Jamie Sawyer, during an adventure training exercise in March 2015. Acquitted in early March, Hughes has now returned to his family in the UK after 15 months, three months of which was spent in custody. Due […]
