Corporate Crime, Compliance & Forensics

In an ever-changing enforcement environment, Lawlex specialist teams across the globe provide expert guidance on all aspects of corporate crime, compliance, and forensics. Our services include:

• Developing robust controls to prevent wrongdoing within your business
• Navigating legal issues and risks when allegations or concerns arise
• Conducting legally defensible investigations, and when applicable, ensuring legal privilege, all while considering the broader risks and obligations involved

With a global team of over 400 expert lawyers, we regularly advise businesses and individuals on financial crime, competition, cyber, environmental, health and safety, and other areas of criminal and regulatory risk across multiple jurisdictions.

Our years of experience enable us to help clients develop effective responses to regulators, prosecutors, employees, customers, and other key stakeholders during a crisis.

Whether you need a strategy to prevent regulatory investigations or guidance on minimising the impact of unforeseen corporate crime or regulatory failure, we provide clear, pragmatic advice tailored to your needs.

Corporate Crime

We work to safeguard our clients’ businesses to resolve issues quickly and effectively with minimal reputational harm.  We help our clients to demonstrate a robust and defensible position to regulators and prosecutors.

Compliance

We help clients to develop a robust governance framework and to implement appropriate and risk-based improvements to compliance systems and controls, consistent with market best practice and regulatory expectations. We regularly advise on global and local controls, often providing advice across multiple jurisdictions and legal regimes to help give clients comfort that their controls meet local requirements.  This work includes risk assessments, due diligence, data collection procedures, crisis management and investigation plans, appropriate governance controls (policies and procedures) and aligning your finance and risk functions.

Forensics

We are your single point of contact, to detect, investigate and resolve wrongdoing. We have market-leading forensic tools to gather, host and review data sources to uncover the facts under investigation efficiently and thoroughly.  Our teams also help clients to navigate the pitfalls of legal privilege/ professional secret, data protection, data transfer and employment, as well as positive reporting obligations, all of which can expose businesses to greater risk if not handled correctly from the outset.