Julian Hayes > BCL Solicitors LLP > London, England > Lawyer Profile
BCL Solicitors LLP Offices
51 LINCOLN'S INN FIELDS
LONDON
WC2A 3LZ
England
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Julian Hayes
Work Department
Business Crime and Regulation
Position
Julian is an experienced partner in BCL’s white collar crime and regulatory team. He provides expert advice to individuals in relation to the full range of financial offences, including fraud, bribery, insider dealing, tax offences, and money laundering allegations. Where necessary, Julian is able to draw on his specialist expertise in information law, particularly with regard to law enforcement access to electronic evidence where his knowledge encompasses data protection laws and state agency surveillance / interception powers.
Julian’s individual clients include prominent business people, C-suites executives and other senior corporate employees involved in high profile investigations by the SFO, FCA and HMRC. His recent SFO experience includes the investigations of Rolls Royce and Greenergy. Many of his cases involve cross-border aspects, requiring close co-ordination with lawyers and experts in other jurisdictions including the US, India, the Netherlands, Austria, Switzerland and Greece. A number of his clients are high net worth individuals, and his experience includes advising on the implications of overseas criminal/regulatory investigations, mutual legal assistance, extradition and Interpol.
He is a contributing author to GIR’s handbook ‘Guide to Cyber Investigations’.
Julian writes regularly for national media, principally on emerging issues relating to the highly specialised intersection between law enforcement and information law.
He lectures in the UK and overseas on legal developments relating to electronic evidence, sanctions, and data protection.
Career
Called to the Bar in 1995 and completed pupillage at a leading fraud/criminal/regulatory set of barristers’ chambers. Continued to work in the field of business crime before cross-qualifying as a solicitor with higher rights of audience in 2000 and joining the London Stock Exchange as a financial regulator. Successfully completed the Chartered Institute for Securities and Investment’s Regulation and Compliance Examination. Worked as a commercial fraud and financial services litigator in leading firms in Australia and London before joining BCL in 2006. Publications of note: Contributor to GIR’s Guide to Cyber Investigations as well as numerous cyber-related articles in The Times, Euronews, Information Age, Computer Weekly, Compliance Week and Information Age.
Languages
German
Memberships
Fraud Lawyers Association (Committee Member); European Criminal Bar Association & International Bar Association; The Law Society.
Education
University of Kent – (BA (Hons). University of Northumbria – CPE. Inns of Court School of Law, London – BVC.
Leisure
Theatre & opera, German language & culture, cycling.
Lawyer Rankings
London > Risk advisory > Data protection, privacy and cybersecurity
Boutique firm BCL Solicitors LLP ‘knows the intersection of business, regulation and criminal enforcement like no other‘, and brings this to bear on its data work, which predominantly focuses on investigatory powers and surveillance law. Team lead Michael Drury leverages his experience as the former legal director of GCHQ to offer clients ‘a level of legal and technical understanding that no one else comes close to‘. Julian Hayes is another key senior contact.
London > Crime, fraud and licensing > Fraud: white-collar crime (advice to individuals)
(Leading partners)The ‘tremendously talented‘ team at BCL Solicitors LLP has a market-leading presence in the white-collar crime space, routinely representing individuals across the full range of financial crime investigations and prosecutions, including allegations of bribery, corruption, money laundering, and fraud, both domestic and cross-border in nature. Richard Sallybanks
leads the team and attracts praise for his ‘extraordinary strategic acumen,’ regularly acting for high-net-worth individuals and senior executives. ‘Wise, tough, and pragmatic‘ founding partner Ian Burton tackles cases concerning sanctions, price fixing, and extradition issues. Harry Travers takes point on large SFO investigations and tax fraud matters; Shula de Jersey and Julian Hayes are other significant names here. Shaul Brazil is a key contact for cross-border money laundering investigations, while John Binns is noted for his sanctions, asset forfeiture, and tax expertise. The team also includes a strong roster of associates, including Oliver Schneider-Sikorsky, Anoushka Warlow, and Hannah Raphael.
Lawyer Rankings
- Fraud: white-collar crime (advice to individuals) London > Crime, fraud and licensing
- Leading partners London > Crime, fraud and licensing > Fraud: white-collar crime (advice to individuals)
- Data protection, privacy and cybersecurity London > Risk advisory
Top Tier Firm Rankings
- Crime, fraud and licensing > Crime: general
- Crime, fraud and licensing > Fraud: white-collar crime (advice to individuals)