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Practice Area
An investigation is decided in its first three weeks, usually by people who do not yet know how large it will become.
Practice contacts
We conduct internal investigations for boards and audit committees, defend companies and individuals in enforcement proceedings, and advise on the sanctions, anti-corruption, financial crime, and data regimes that generate most of that work.
The firm maintains a standing investigations protocol: a written procedure for privilege, document preservation, and witness interviews that applies from the first hour of a matter. It exists because the mistakes that cost clients most are made before anyone has decided the matter is serious.
We give a clear view on voluntary disclosure. It is a strategic decision with a short window, not a compliance formality, and it should be made by people who have seen how it is received on the other side of the table.
Capabilities
Board and audit committee investigations, scoped to answer the question the board actually has, with a reporting format agreed before the work begins.
Responses to civil and criminal inquiries, including matters where several authorities are proceeding in parallel on different timetables.
Sanctions exposure, anti-money laundering controls, and the remediation programs that follow a supervisory finding.
Third-party and distributor risk, books and records exposure, and diligence on acquisitions in higher-risk markets.
Cross-border transfer mechanisms, incident response, and the licensing regimes governing controlled technology.
The team
Representative Matters
Insights
Investigations
The hardest question in an investigation arrives before the facts do: what must be said, to whom, while the company still does not know what happened.
Corporate
Screening regimes rarely block transactions. They reprice them, by moving the critical path from negotiation to consent sequencing.
Industries
Banks, asset managers, insurers, and the payments businesses now regulated like all three.
Software, devices, and data businesses, and the older companies that have become them.
Providers, device manufacturers, and diagnostics businesses operating under clinical and commercial obligations at once.
Generation, transmission, digital infrastructure, and the long-duration contracts behind them.
Speak to the firm
Describe the matter in general terms and name the parties involved. We run a conflicts check, usually within two business days, and a partner in the relevant practice will call you. The first conversation is not charged.