BCL Solicitors LLP

Business Crime and Regulation

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.

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.

German

Fraud Lawyers Association (Committee Member); European Criminal Bar Association & International Bar Association; The Law Society.

University of Kent - (BA (Hons). University of Northumbria - CPE. Inns of Court School of Law, London – BVC.

Theatre & opera, German language & culture, cycling.