Associate, Corporate Crime

2 days ago

London, United Kingdom Herbert Smith Freehills Full time

**LONDON - EXCHANGE HOUSE/SQUARE**

**THE OPPORTUNITY**
- Our specialist lawyers acts for companies, institutions and individual senior managers in respect of actions by law enforcement and regulatory agencies including the Serious Fraud Office, Financial Conduct Authority, HM Revenues and Customs, National Crime Agency and Police. We also advise clients as witnesses or victims on issues such as interacting with investigators and prosecutors, complying with orders and notices, providing witness evidence, and dealing with mutual legal assistance requests.
- In relation to compliance matters, we have set up and advised on all aspects of financial crime compliance and training programmes, implementing these on a local, regional and global basis..
- We can our clients navigate these issues in the following main areas:
**Investigations**
- managing enquiries, investigations and enforcement actions initiated by government departments and/or regulators
- advising on potential legal and regulatory exposure, as well as disclosure and reporting obligations, arising from matters brought to light by investigations
- dealing with media and other reputational issues arising from investigations, including managing crisis situations
- in conjunction with relevant colleagues, dealing with disputes arising from corporate criminal matters, including contentious employment proceedings and civil litigation

**Corporate crime and white collar defence**
- defending companies, senior executives, and employees in criminal prosecutions and enforcement actions
- advising on all aspects of white collar criminal investigations, including where clients are involved as witnesses/victims, in respect of disclosure of material to prosecutors, production orders, section 2 notices, mutual legal assistance requests etc
- advising organisations, and representing individuals, in respect of exposure arising from investigations overseas, extradition and Interpol Red Notices and related matters

**Compliance and advisory**
- advising on compliance with various types of laws, including anti-bribery, anti-money laundering, anti-facilitation of tax evasion, and trade and economic sanctions, including assisting clients in developing and implementing relevant compliance programmes, providing training, and undertaking reviews of compliance programmes
- advising regulated firms on financial crime regulatory compliance
- providing technical advice on the (UK/EU) sanctions implications of proposed business ventures and transactions, and on the implications of newly introduced sanctions
- monitoring compliance programmes pursuant to agreements entered into with the government
- identifying risk and advising on domestic and cross-border issues
- conducting due diligence in connection with compliance issues arising in mergers, acquisitions and joint ventures, and assisting in drafting and commenting on relevant contractual protections

**SKILLS, EXPERIENCE AND QUALIFICATIONS**
- Ideally 1 - 3 years post qualified experience, although those with more or less will be considered
- Experience from a leading City firm, boutique or working as a barrister would be considered
- Exposure to the SFO and/or FCA
- Exposure to working on cross-border issues

**GROUP / TEAM**

Dispute resolution

**GROUP / TEAM DESCRIPTION**

Our market leading UK corporate crime and investigations practice has expertise in all areas of financial crime, and in particular bribery and corruption, fraud, economic sanctions, fraud, money laundering and insider dealing.
Forming part of our global corporate crime and investigations network - one of the largest of the international elite firms, with over 110 lawyers covering 20 countries from 27 offices - we provide clients with dedicated advice on compliance matters, as well as conducting internal investigations, and assisting clients to respond to international law enforcement matters investigations.

**ROLE TYPE**

Legal professionals/Practice Group

**CONTRACT TYPE**

Permanent

**WORKING PATTERN**

Full Time

**DIVERSITY & INCLUSION**

At Herbert Smith Freehills you will be part of a diverse, innovative culture where high performance, client focus and highly engaged people are our differentiator. People at our firm come from a range of backgrounds and bring a wide variety of experiences and perspectives to their work with us. We strive to ensure that our inclusive environment means you feel valued and able to perform at your best by being your authentic self at work. We know that our future success not only depends on being innovative and progressive in the changing legal market but, most importantly, on our people feeling highly engaged in meaningful work.

We understand that you have commitments and personal interests outside of work and we strive to create a working environment based on mutual trust and respect, in which you can perform at your best whilst maintaining sustainable balance across your life.

Herbert Smith Freehills

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