Matthew Worby
Matthew Worby
Biography
Matthew is an investigations and compliance lawyer based in London.
He focuses on investigating and defending allegations of criminal conduct with a focus on financial sanctions, trade sanctions, export controls, bribery, money laundering, and fraud. Matthew has represented financial institutions, multi-national corporates, and individuals, in high-profile investigations and prosecutions involving authorities and regulators worldwide, across a variety of sectors.
He also regularly advises regulated and unregulated clients of all sizes on financial and trade sanctions and export controls matters. This includes: helping clients to create and embed compliance programmes; transactional due diligence; providing strategic advice on reporting and breaches; and mitigating sanctions exposure in complex restructurings. In addition, Matt recently spent time on secondment at an oil major, as one of their senior sanctions counsel.
Professional experience
Representative experience
Representative experience
Matthew’s representative matters include:
- Acting for individuals:
- Acting for a former CEO of an ex-FTSE 250 company in relation to investigations by the Insolvency Service and Financial Conduct Authority;*
- Advising the directors of a company in the retail and consumer sector in response to proceedings threatened by Companies House;* and
- Defending a number of connected individuals against serious allegations of economic crime valued in the billions of dollars.*
- Acting for companies:
- Representing a specialist UK-based design and manufacturing company in response to an HMRC investigation into alleged export breaches;*
- Advising a UK listed manufacturing company investigating the alleged diversion of their goods to end users posing WMD and military end user concerns;*
- Representing a shipping and logistics company and investigating historic conduct in response to allegations of false accounting, fraud, and money laundering;*
- Advising a regulated financial services firm on how to manage the impact of financial sanctions, trade sanctions, and export controls on a Part VII transfer;*
- Advising an escrow agent on how to best manage its sanction-related risk in the context of the restructuring of several large distressed property development groups;* and
- Advising an aircraft maintenance support company on self-reporting a financial sanctions issue to the Office of Financial Sanctions Implementation (OFSI).*
*The above representative matters were handled by Matthew prior to his joining Norton Rose Fulbright.
Memberships and activities
Memberships and activities
Matthew is a member of the Association of Certified Sanctions Specialists.
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