Topic: Investigations

Our team explains key changes to the guidance.

Focusing on key cases, developments and hot topics to help in-house counsel to stay up to date.

A discussion on the preservation, collection and transfer of data in investigations.

A discussion on the rise in investigations across the Middle East and the increasingly rigorous and pro-active enforcement appetite of the regulators.

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.