England - London • Risk advisory
CMS
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Offering a joined-up risk advisory, compliance and investigations service, CMS’ practice covers all aspects of corporate criminal and regulatory law, demonstrating special expertise in energy, life sciences, and technology. The team also boasts significant strength in financial services enforcement, sanctions compliance, and data protection, with vast experience in dealing with complex, cross-border prosecutions and investigations. Eoin O’Shea and Omar Qureshi co-head the group, with the former being an expert on fraud and handling SFO investigations, while the latter advises companies on bribery and money laundering issues. Elisabeth Bremner focuses on financial crime compliance, and Alison McHaffie has over 25 years’ experience dealing with financial regulators. Senior associate Amy Wilkinson concentrates on accounting irregularities, and associate Karishma Gadhia looks into civil fraud proceedings.
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Testimonials
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- 'The CMS investigations team are truly globalized in that the firm offers investigations and enforcement services across the many offices; however, the London office is very cognizant of what is occurring at the global offices. This is a well organized team and very good to work with.'
- 'I have worked with Omar Qureshi and Eoin O'Shea in London, as well as lawyers in Bucharest, Shanghai, Warsaw and Kiev. All are uniformly good on quality and responsiveness and offer an integrated offering, jurisdiction to jurisdiction.'
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Work highlights
- Acting for a former CEO in criminal investigations in four jurisdictions relating to SKAT v Solo Capital, one of the largest tax fraud causes in the world.
- Advising the Administrators of Buy2Let Cars as regards a major investigation by the Serious Fraud Office.
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