Topic: Investigations

The UK government has today published its long-awaited guidance to organisations on the new offence of failure to prevent fraud and confirmed the offence will be in force from 1 September 2025.

Our regulation and investigations team focus on key developments affecting companies operating in the UK.

Privilege in investigations part 2

Our disputes and regulation and investigations teams have written a briefing considering the rise of internal investigations amid increasing scrutiny from the media, public, authorities and other stakeholders of how investigations are conducted.

In their latest article on this topic, our regulation and investigations team discuss when the UK government’s “reasonable procedures” guidance is due to be published, when the failure to prevent fraud offence will come into force and what clients should be doing now to prepare, including key considerations based on their recent experience advising clients.

In our third episode of the Inside Investigations podcast series, Thomas Hubbard (Senior Associate, Investigations, Enforcement and Compliance team, Norton Rose Fulbright LLP, London) is joined by Alexander Cappel (Partner, Norton Rose Fulbright LLP, Frankfurt), Rongxin Huang (Partner, Shanghai Pacific Legal, Shanghai) and Kevin Harnisch (Head of White Collar Defense and Investigations, Norton Rose Fulbright LLP, Washington) to discuss privilege in investigations.

The rise of dawn raids

Looking ahead to the second half of 2024, we predict the significant developments affecting organisations doing business in the UK.

Our global investigations team have launched a new investigations podcast series.

Our regulation and investigations team have published the second article in their series breaking down the steps companies will need to take to put “reasonable procedures” in place to prevent fraud.