areas of practice - financial regulation

All businesses and professional advisers are expected to trade in a manner which is fully compliant with an array of consumer laws, professional conduct rules and tax legislation.

Suspicions of commercial or financial impropriety are often met with a lengthy regulator’s investigation and can result in disciplinary, civil or criminal proceedings.

The direction taken is heavily influenced by how you handle things in the early stages.

We strive to ensure our clients do everything possible to achieve the best outcome and avoid a prosecution if at all possible. We measure our success not by a victory at the end of a trial but by preventing a case ever getting that far.

Ranging from allegations of cartel behaviour, fraud, and tax evasion, to trading standards offences, we advise a range of businesses and professionals in a field of complex rules and extensive enforcement powers. How to act in the face of such allegations, the tactics of best protecting yourself, and managing the often voluminous evidence served during a prosecution, are all skills that we have mastered over the years.