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About
Helen is a member of the firm’s corporate crime and investigations practice advising clients on all aspects of financial crime.
She advises both individuals and corporates on compliance, pre-investigations, investigations and prosecutions. She has represented clients before a number of regulators, including the SFO, HMRC, the FCA and the European Anti-Fraud Office (OLAF). She is currently representing a client in a CPS prosecution for conspiracy to defraud and to bribe. She has been involved in the high-profile bribery investigations into Rolls-Royce and Airbus and the investigation into Barclays regarding the 2008 fund raising.
She also has expertise in financial sanctions and is currently helping clients adapt to recent shifts in the global financial sanctions framework. She has published numerous updates on sanctions and spoken on podcasts.
Helen also designs and implements compliance programmes on bribery, corruption, money laundering and sanctions for a wide variety of clients. She delivers training on all aspects of financial crime.
Helen is recognised as being calm in a crisis and highly diligent in her approach.
Helen is a member of the Fraud Lawyers Association and the Women's White Collar Defense Association. Helen is a Disciplinary Panel Member of the RFU.
Experience
- Representing an individual in what will be one of the largest CPS prosecutions.
- Acting for a large corporate who was raided by the SFO following a multi-jurisdictional investigation into fraudulent contracts.
- Advising Ferrari Group PLC, one of the global leaders in the worldwide shipment of luxury goods, on the English law aspects of its IPO and admission to listing and trading of its ordinary shares on Euronext Amsterdam.
- Representing an individual in an HMRC investigation into alleged tax fraud.
- Advising a senior executive in an FCA investigation into financial and non-financial misconduct.
- Advising multiple clients in relation to the interpretation and application of financial sanctions.
- Undertaking an AML and sanctions review for a corporate.
- Advising Alchemy on the purchase of a stake in the luxury UK hotel and spa group Barons Eden.