Claudia Van Gruisen
Senior Associate
Norton Rose Fulbright LLP
Biography
Claudia is a Senior Associate in Norton Rose Fulbright’s investigations and compliance team based in London. She specialises in internal and external criminal and regulatory investigations, with a focus on bribery, money laundering, fraud and regulatory compliance.
Claudia has considerable experience of advising both large multi-national companies and financial institutions, as well as individuals, on a range of investigations involving authorities and regulators worldwide, across a variety of sectors. She also has significant experience of designing and implementing financial crime compliance programmes and conducting transactional due diligence.
Claudia was recognised as Law.com’s youngest Female Rising Star in the UK 2023; and is listed in Legal 500 as a ‘Rising star’ for Financial services: contentious and as a key lawyer for Regulatory Investigations and Corporate Crime (Advice to Corporates) and White-Collar Crime: Advice to Individuals. She is described in Legal 500 as ‘a star of the future’ and ‘tireless in her efforts on behalf of clients’.
Professional experience
Collapse all- Solicitor
- qualified in England and Wales
Advising
- and successfully representing a former finance director at Tesco on an SFO investigation into alleged accounting misstatements
- a multinational manufacturing company on internal, HSE and corporate manslaughter investigations
- a financial institution investigations by both the Prudential Regulation Authority and the Financial Conduct Authority
- a French listed company on an internal investigation following allegations of fraud and corruption within a subsidiary
- the CEO of an African oil company on an SFO investigation
- a senior executive of Rolls Royce on an SFO investigation.
Claudia is a member of the Young Fraud Lawyers Association.
Insights
New Global Investigations podcast series
Blog | June 25, 2024
Episode 1: The early stages of an investigation
Podcast | June 18, 2024
Europe steps up its fight against fraud
Publication | June 11, 2024