With a global client-base and growing team, Addleshaw Goddard is highly recommended for its white-collar crime work, particularly regarding bribery and fraud risks. The practice displays ‘strength in depth’ when dealing with financial crime compliance, advisory and criminal defence proceedings, and consistently supports corporations from across the pharmaceutical, finance, and infrastructure sectors. The team has experience negotiating out-of-court resolutions with the SFO and US DOJ, with team head, Nichola Peters, bringing extensive knowledge on deferred prosecution agreements and negotiated settlements to the group. The ’outstanding’ Michelle De Kluyver is an expert on sanctions issues and economic crime cases, whilst Polly Sprenger handles civil fraud and asset recovery. Legal director Neeta Chityal and Matthew Worby are also recommended.
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Testimonials
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‘A group of warm and friendly professionals who are brilliant as a team. They have strength in depth and inspire confidence.’
‘Nichola Peters has a knack for bringing the best out of her team. She is easy to work with and superb with clients.'
- 'Michelle de Kluyver is outstanding. A clear thinker with great practical and commercial instincts. Neeta Chityal is wonderfully professional with a tireless work ethic and fine eye for detail.’
‘Addleshaw Goddard's team is stand-out in this area; the team has unrivalled expertise in regulatory investigations and corporate crime.’
‘Michelle de Kluyver is a leading light in this area - superb judgement combined with unrivalled knowledge of the law. Neeta Chityal, recently made up is a complete star and has a glittering career in partnership ahead of her.’
Key clients
- Bystronic Glass (UK) Limited
- Kroll Advisory Limited (Kroll) acting on behalf of the following companies (all in administration): Arena Television Limited, Arena Holdings Limited, and Arena Aviation Limited (together the Arena Companies).
Work highlights
- Advising Richard Howson, former CEO, on proceedings brought against him following the collapse of Carillion plc.
- Advising Bystronic Glass (UK) Limited on proceedings against a former director, including a private prosecution alongside a parallel civil fraud action alleging breach of fiduciary duties.
- Advising a global company on a complex, multi-jurisdiction bribery investigation and related issues.
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Addleshaw Goddard
Her recent work has focused on: fraud investigations, asset tracing and recovery on behalf of investment funds and other defrauded entities conducting investigations into misconduct affecting corporations, including suspected fraud, corruption, theft of commercial data, false accounting, tampering with safety equipment, and unlawful surveillance acting for corporates and individuals facing asset freezing and forfeiture orders advising on industry-wide campaigns of private prosecutions and acting as a leading advocate for the proper and lawful conduct of private investigations. Polly also advises a growing number of corporate clients grappling with allegations of sexual offences in the workplace. Her advisory work extends beyond legal remedies into managing reputational issues and crisis planning, preparedness and response. Polly was junior counsel in the high profile prosecution of News of the World journalists in 2014, and served as technical advisor to a Parliamentary inquiry into private investigators and phone hacking in 2012. Polly previously served as Head of Strategic Intelligence at the UK Serious Fraud Office and worked for several years as a corporate investigator and investigative journalist.
Practice head
The lawyer(s) leading their teams.
Nichola Peters, Michelle de Kluyver