Jessica Parker
Senior Partner
Expertise
- Representation of Athletes and Sports Professionals
- Export and trade controls
- School and university hearings
- Financial Reporting Council (FRC) investigations
- Professional disciplinary
- Food safety / environmental health
- FCA investigations
- FCA How to Guides
- Environmental crime
- Corporate Manslaughter / Health and Safety
- Competition & Markets Authority – Directors
PRACTICE AREA
Business Crime & Fraud
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Corker Binning advises individuals and companies across a broad range of serious criminal cases in the business or financial sectors. Our clients typically include CEOs and senior company executives.
Business Crime and Financial Investigations
If you or your business is facing investigation for fraud or financial crime, the pressure can be immediate and intense. The consequences, personal, professional, commercial and reputational, can be far-reaching. We provide calm, strategic guidance from the earliest stage to help you protect your position and navigate the process with confidence.
Specialist Advice in Serious and Complex Cases
We represent clients in investigations and prosecutions brought by the Serious Fraud Office (SFO), the Financial Conduct Authority (FCA), the National Crime Agency (NCA), the Competition and Markets Authority (CMA), and specialist police units across the UK.
Our experience includes major cases involving allegations of market manipulation, bribery and corruption, corporate fraud and regulatory misconduct. We have acted in high-profile investigations such as Libor/Euribor, Forex, and in matters concerning Airbus, Barclays Bank, ENRC, G4S, Rolls-Royce, Serco and Tesco. We also advise clients involved in parallel US investigations led by the Department of Justice (DOJ).
A Focused Approach for Individuals and Businesses
We act for a wide range of clients, including senior executives, professionals, board members and businesses in regulated sectors such as financial services, energy, oil and gas, and consulting.
Whether you are a suspect, a witness, or responding to early contact from investigators, we work quickly to assess your legal position and safeguard your interests. Early advice can often shape the course of an investigation and limit long-term risk.
Managing Complexity and Cross-Border Risk
The investigation of financial crime has grown increasingly complex. As digital evidence expands and regulators collaborate across borders, the volume of material, and the consequences of missteps, have never been greater. We understand how to manage and utilise what might seem an overwhelming volume of data.
We know how prosecutors operate, both in the UK and internationally. We use that insight to help clients engage with investigators strategically, manage risk effectively, and prepare for what comes next.
Personalised Support in High-Stakes Situations
An investigation of this nature can threaten not just your business, but your reputation, livelihood and peace of mind. We provide clear, measured advice and build a defence strategy that reflects your broader priorities. You can expect discretion, focus and a deep understanding of what’s at stake. We’re here to protect what matters most to you.
Fraud cases:
- Acting for a number of individuals in the SFO and FCA investigations into alleged LIBOR, EURIBOR and FOREX manipulation, as well as the related US investigations by the Department of Justice (DOJ), the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) and the Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC).
- Acting for suspects or witnesses in the SFO fraud investigations/prosecutions involving Tesco (where we acted for the former CEO), Barclays Bank/Qatar (where we acted for the former CEO), G4S/Serco, JJB Sports, Quindell, Bank of England liquidity auctions, Kaupthing and Olympus.
- Acting in a number of large-scale insider trading and market abuse investigations/prosecutions brought by the FCA and/or the City of London police.
- Acting in a range of smaller frauds prosecuted by the CPS usually based on alleged false representations or abuse of position in employer/employee relationships.
Bribery & corruption cases:
- Acting for senior company individuals in the SFO’s investigations into alleged bribery and corruption at Glencore, Rolls-Royce, British American Tobacco, Amec Foster Wheeler, Petrofac, Rio Tinto, Unaoil, Airbus, Glaxo Smith Kline and Alstom, including a director in the first SFO prosecution of individuals under the Bribery Act 2010.
- Acting for ENRC in the SFO investigation into alleged bribery and corruption at the company (no charges were brought).
- Acting for an individual acquitted in the SFO’s first successful prosecution of a corporate for bribery offences.
- Acting for senior individuals (including the CEO of the London branch of a foreign bank) in NCA investigations concerning alleged bribery and corruption arising in a number of West African states.
- Acting for individuals in the police investigations into the payment of alleged bribes to police officers and others, including Operation Weeting.
Corporate internal investigations cases:
- Conducting an internal investigation into high-profile allegations of accounting and invoicing fraud at a multinational corporate group simultaneously under investigation by the SFO (this advice was sought because Corker Binning was “independent” of the corporate’s usual advisors).
- Acting for an international engineering firm to carry out an internal investigation into allegations of attempts made to offer bribes in return for the award of contracts.
- Acting alongside a major international law firm in conducting an internal investigation into allegations of fraud and money laundering in the Italian business of a major IT manufacturer.
- Carrying out an internal fact-finding investigation into allegations of fraud on behalf of a supplier of pharmaceutical products to the National Health Service.
Tax fraud cases:
- Advising an individual suspect in the first deferred prosecution agreement (DPA) approved by the Court following an investigation brought by HMRC/CPS (GVC/Entain).
- Conducting an internal investigation into a group company in which several of the executives had been accused of tax fraud. The outcome of our investigation caused the criminal investigation to be dropped.
- Advising a suspect in a film tax credit scheme investigation in which we persuaded HMRC not to bring any criminal charges in return for a financial settlement.
- Advising executives formerly employed by a FTSE 100 company in an HMRC COP 8 investigation into alleged tax fraud.
- An employer in a multi-million-pound case concerning the alleged underpayment of the taxes of building workers on a major construction project.
- Representing a client in the first negotiated plea agreement with the CPS under the Attorney General’s Guidelines for Plea Discussions in Serious Fraud cases involving over £1.5 million of VAT reclaims.
Money laundering cases:
- Advising numerous companies and funds (both in the regulated and non-regulated sectors) on compliance with their money laundering obligations under the Proceeds of Crime Act 2002 and Money Laundering Regulations 2017, when to make suspicious activity reports and apply for defences against money laundering to the National Crime Agency, and how to comply with the provisions on tipping-off and prejudicing an investigation.
- Advising an overseas political party on a major Met police investigation into money laundering arising from alleged terrorist activities.
- Advising a number of witnesses at a major bank in connection with an SFO investigation into suspected money laundering and failure to report.
- Acting for one of the main defendants in a $36 million international money laundering case tried in the UK and involving Nigeria’s mobile telephone provider.
- Advising two major high street banks on behalf of employees interviewed or investigated either for actual money laundering or for failure to report suspicion of money laundering offences (in both cases we persuaded police to drop their investigations).
- Advising many individuals in the well-publicised operation by the Metropolitan Police called Operation Rize in which three London safe depositories were raided and 6,700 deposit boxes opened and searched.
- Acting for a foreign national extradited back to the UK to face charges for laundering the proceeds of drug trafficking.
