International Law Firm
White Collar Crime & Investigations
Associate 2-4PQE
London
The Firm
Thisinternational law firm employes over 1450 people with 650+ lawyers. With offices in London and overseas, the firm undertakes a great deal of cross-border, multi-jurisdictional and complex work.
The Department
The firm boasts one of the largest and most experience Dispute Resolution departments in London. The White Collar Crime & Investigations team offer an award winning array of services to clients including the defence of allegations of financial crime as well as serious and general crime. The team's lawyers advise on numerous cases involving bribery and corruption, money laundering, fraud, insider dealing, asset denial, sanctions breaches and mutual legal assistance. The team also consists of extradition specialists as well as leading Health & Safety expertise.
Duties and Responsibilities
As part of the role, the successful applicant can expect to be involved in acting for both individuals and corporate clients in investigations, and in white collar and general criminal defence proceedings and H&S investigations. You will have the opportunity to advise on investigations involving the SFO, FCA, NCA, HMRC, HSE and the CPS, amongst others.
You will be expected to advise on all aspects of a case, and experience of police station representation is preferable. Ideally, you will have experience of Crown Court trials. You must be able to manage the administrative aspects of a case, from matter opening to billing and you should have excellent financial discipline.
Skills/Experience
To be successful in your application, you will have 2-4 years' PQE gained at a leading criminal practice. You should have experience of defending individuals in criminal proceedings, ideally both in financial crime and in serious and general crime.
Please apply as directed or confidentially contact Aidan McAvinue at Search Legal for more information. Alternatively, if this role is not for you, I am working a variety of other White Collar Crime & Investigations opportunities with ranked teams in the City London so would be interested to talk to any White Collar Crime & Investigations lawyer
Search is an equal opportunities recruiter and we welcome applications from all suitably skilled or qualified applicants, regardless of their race, sex, disability, religion/beliefs, sexual orientation or age.