Hickman & Rose

Partner. Business Crime.

Ross Dixon is a highly experienced criminal litigator working across the full range of business crime.

Committed, personable and skilled, Ross takes a strategic approach to all his cases. He has achieved significant success in some of the UK’s most high profile White Collar crime matters.

He advises both companies and individuals and is often instructed by founders, directors or senior executives who are under investigation. He has acted in some of the UK’s most serious and complex fraud, false accounting and bribery and corruption case. He has had great success defending cases prosecuted by the SFO.

His financial crime practice includes defending regulatory investigations by professional bodies such as the SRA, the FCA and the FRC.

Ross has expertise in Money Laundering matters and the Proceeds of Crime Act including Account Freezing and Forfeiture Orders.

He has great experience of cases that involve parallel investigations in the UK and overseas, including the US, Europe, South East Asia and the Middle East and often works closely with lawyers based in other jurisdictions. His experience includes advice and representation for those facing requests for mutual legal assistance or extradition.

Alongside his business crime practice Ross has many years experience representing professionals, businesspeople and their families caught up in general and serious crime cases, whether in police investigations or before the Magistrates’ and Crown Courts.

Trained Simons Muirhead and Burton. Qualified 1991. Joined Hickman & Rose in 1995 and became a partner in 1998. Currently Chair of Partners.

Ross is Vice-Chair of the International Bar Association Crime Committee, a member of The Fraud Lawyers Association committee, and has served on the Law Society’s Money Laundering Task Force since 2012.

Ponteland Community High School, Northumberland; University of Leeds (1987 LLB); College of Law (1988 LSF).