Global Investigations
Lawyers
Investigations, Inquiries, Compliance.
Handled. With Care.
If you're facing an investigation, enforcement action, public inquiry, or complex regulatory or compliance matter, it is imperative to know that your legal advisers are not only highly experienced, but are also deeply invested and personally available to you at every step.
Our Global Investigations group is a multi-disciplinary team which covers financial crime, corporate crime/sanctions regulatory compliance and a wide range of investigation, enforcement and prosecution issues. We advise on risk management and the resolution of crisis events, as well as offering bespoke training for your board and legal teams.
Over the last three years, over 300 major organisations – including over 25 FTSE 350 businesses – have relied on us to support them with investigations and related advisory and compliance matters across the UK and around the globe including in Ireland, Germany, France, the Middle East, and Asia.
Appoint the legal investigations team who make client care their #1 priority.
With complex laws to navigate, businesses and reputations to manage, and senior stakeholders to guide, we are there 24/7 to help clients navigate the twists and turns of any investigation or inquiry as you achieve the best possible outcome.
Our dedicated team of over 45 international investigations and compliance specialists represent clients throughout some of the most challenging periods that they will confront. We guide risk and compliance teams, in-house counsel and boards of directors as they steer a route through the intricate legal and regulatory landscape surrounding businesses today. We also help individuals through serious challenges, such as sensitive corporate crime and professional conduct matters.
We help our clients to avoid criminal law risks, improve their internal systems, conduct internal investigations, bring private prosecutions, liaise with law enforcement agencies and regulators, and deal with regulatory interventions and prosecutions. We advocate for them during public inquiries, hearings and inquests. We help them build and enhance their businesses in a compliance-focussed way.
Consistently ranked in Global Investigations Review's (GIR) Top 100 firms, as well as all major legal directories, we employ top calibre people and take on market-leading mandates. Above all, we put your best interests at the heart of what we do.
More detail on our key areas of strength
A few fast facts
Where we've helped our clients
An ability and desire to develop a deep understanding of the highly regulated industry in which we operate and to translate that understanding into nuanced legal advice and counsel. An ability to see round corners.
The level of client service provided by Addleshaw Goddard is extraordinary.
Addleshaw Goddard’s team is stand-out in this area; the team has unrivalled expertise in regulatory investigations and corporate crime.
Strength from top to bottom. Highly experienced team. Good strategic thinkers. Exceptionally experienced in complex cases.
The team brings an unparalleled focus, energy and understanding to each client’s problems. It is seasoned by a perfect commercial awareness, it always identifies, pursues and obtains the best possible outcome for those it represents.
Key contacts
London, UK
London
London, UK
Germany
Germany
Paris, France
France
Madrid, Spain