Corporate Crime & Investigations Lawyer

Are you an experienced Corporate Crime & Investigations lawyer looking for a new opportunity? Join our Corporate Crime & Investigations Team (part of the firm's Dispute Resolution department), where you'll have access to top-calibre clients, with real responsibility and ownership from day one.

The Opportunity

You will advise corporates, and their boards and directors, on business critical issues concerning corporate crime, financial crime and regulatory enforcement. Our team specialises in crisis management, corporate and director liability, undertaking corporate internal investigations, engaging with regulators and defending complex investigations and prosecutions.

You will have good experience in corporate crime, financial crime and/or regulatory enforcement, ideally with experience of advising corporates in relation to large scale investigations and prosecutions.

You'll benefit from a varied workload, including serious fraud and money laundering; bribery and corruption; sanctions and export controls; the recovery of the proceeds of crime; corporate manslaughter; health and safety; and coroners' inquests.

As one of 100+ dispute resolution lawyers working on a diverse range of complex challenges facing clients in the private and public sector, you will work closely with highly regarded lawyers, including:

• Guy Bastable, Band 1 (Chambers) 
• Charlotte Whitaker, Hot 100 (The Lawyer)
• Ben Davies, Key Lawyer (Legal 500)

What others say…

“A first-class team with strength and depth in all areas. Immense experience, combined with hard work and excellent judgment make them a difficult team to beat” (Legal 500, 2024).

“Burges Salmon houses a specialist team of practitioners who are highly expert at providing advice on the full range of civil and criminal health and safety matters” (Chambers UK).

What you'll need

• Practical experience of some or all of the following:
• Criminal law and procedure
• Corporate criminal liability
• Advising in relation to a large scale criminal investigation
• Advising a corporate in relation to a criminal investigation by the police, the SFO, HMRC, the FCA, the HSE, the EA, etc
• Advising in relation to a large-scale coroner's inquest
• Advising in relation to health & safety compliance and complex regulatory risk
• Strong team working skills
• Excellent interpersonal, client and commercial skills
• Adaptability and ability to deal with complex work under pressure
• Registration as a lawyer with the SRA

Responsibilities

• Building the Culture: Provide exceptional service and engage in cultural initiatives that enhance our workplace at Burges Salmon
• Delivering Results: Achieve personal goals, align efforts with firm objectives, and manage matters effectively
• Growing our People: Support team development, become an expert in your area, and seek opportunities for skill expansion
• Developing our Business: Understand client needs, lead CRM efforts, network, and collaborate for business growth

The Firm

Our working environment is professional yet progressive, where quality of work and quality of life go hand-in-hand. Our collaborative approach to how we do business is totally refreshing. It's what attracts some of the best legal minds in the industry and it's why our people love working here.

We are proud to have received an Investors in People - Platinum Accreditation and have recently been voted by our people as RollOnFriday's ‘Best Firm to Work at 2024'.

And did you know our hybrid working model offers flexible working options too?

Benefits

We will provide you with a collaborative environment, City-quality work and a transparent, structured path to advancing your career, guided by a supportive leadership team. Click here to download our Career Guide for Lawyers.

Get in touch!

Our resourcing team can provide firm insight and an overview of the department to make sure this is the right next career for you.  For a confidential conversation call Chris Jenkinson on 0117 307 2246.

Are you ready to blaze a trail with industry leaders? Make a leap. Make a splash…

Our commitments

It's important to us that our organisation represents the diverse community in which we operate and we encourage applications from people of all backgrounds and identities.  As a Disability Confident employer, we will provide a fully accessible recruitment process.

We are committed to finding the right person for this role, and we are open to discussing flexible, full time or part time working patterns. We have a successful hybrid working model, which provides another way for our people to work with flexibility.

Burges Salmon is an Equal Opportunity employer.