Investigations

Our team have considerable expertise in conducting investigations. In the last year or so, we’ve been involved with:

• investigations prompted by an approach from regulators with regular reporting into those regulators
• allegations of bribery and corruption
• whistle blower reports
• allegations of sexual misconduct
• allegations of bullying and victimisation
• allegations of misreporting
• investigations commissioned by a parent company looking into culture and behaviours at a subsidiary.

We understand the compliance challenges investigations bring including data protection and data export laws. We understand the need to investigate independently but proportionately with appropriate cultural sensitivity. Where relevant, we harness the power of LexisNexis content and technology to assist in the investigation such as searching public records and news reports with our enhanced due diligence products. This enables us to properly scope out an investigation right at the start.

We work with a variety of reporting options from a full detailed written report to a management briefing on key issues of concern or working as co-counsel on one discrete aspect of a larger investigation.

We know from our experience that investigations must:

• be properly planned and proportionate,
• be done in a competent manner, and
• use proper processes and specialist lawyers to manage the time spent and cost.

Our investigations team carefully manage confidentiality and privilege. We work across borders using a fully staffed mobile office where appropriate. We also work with trusted law firms across the globe.

For obvious reasons we don’t give case studies here on the type of projects we have been involved with, yet members of our team have worked in the following places in recent years: