England - London • Corporate and commercial
Hickman & Rose
Hickman & Rose is best known for its representation of company directors and senior executives facing serious fallout from financial services investigations. The practice draws on the firm’s notable prowess in the white-collar criminal and professional regulatory spaces to inform its financial regulatory offering. ‘Wonderful tactician’ Andrew Katzen, co-founding partner Ben Rose, and joint chair of the financial crime department Ross Dixon are all key senior contacts.
Legal 500 Editorial commentary
Testimonials
Collated independently by Legal 500 research team.
‘Ross Dixon: great instincts, and wonderful at dealing with matters with US legal issues.'
'Ben Rose is a pair of experienced hands.'
'Claire Wallace - a conscientious practitioner.’
‘Ross Dixon is superb. Super responsive, fantastically talented, with excellent judgment and, in an absolute crisis, still empathetic, kind, generous and thoughtful. Wonderful to work with.’
‘H&R have an outstanding contentious FS team with a rare specialism in cross-over FS/criminal matters.'
'I have worked closely with Ben Rose, Andrew Katzen and Claire Wallace over the last two or three years, and they are each exceptional. Ben Rose is an absolute street-fighter for his clients, combined with great charm and fantastic tactical nous. Andrew Katzen is a wonderful tactician with deep experience. Claire Wallace is a brilliant talent, great with clients and fantastic experience in this sector.’
'Ben Rose seems to have a good reputation in the industry. He seems very client focussed and hard-working, and I have no doubt that he would provide a good service to his clients.’
Work highlights
- Representing an individual accused by the FCA of financial market manipulation designed to destabilise the currency of a Middle Eastern state at the RDC and at the Upper Tribunal.
- Acting in an FRC misconduct investigation into the former CFO of a global company in connection with an alleged £50m overstatement in the company’s financial accounts.
- Argued that an FRC investigation against a former executive was an abuse of process and not in the public interest.
Practice head
The lawyer(s) leading their teams.
Andrew Katzen