Neil is a Senior Associate in Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer’s Global Investigations and Corporate Crime practice. Neil’s expertise include global criminal and regulatory investigations, international financial services litigation, and financial sanctions. He acts for financial institutions and corporates across a range of sectors (including energy and natural resources, transportation, manufacturing, and telecommunications). Neil is particularly interested and experienced in white-collar defence and corporate crime matters. He has acted for clients on multi-jurisdictional investigations related to allegations of bribery and corruption, money laundering, tax evasion, and accounting fraud. He also regularly advises and presents to clients on issues relating to financial sanctions and financial crime compliance programmes. Neil has completed secondments to the UK Serious Fraud Office, Freshfields' office in New York, a major UK retail bank and a global investment bank based in London.

Joanna Dimmock is a partner in the White Collar team in London with broad experience across a wide range of white-collar related areas. Many of her cases have an international dimension and she has particular experience of multi-jurisdictional investigations in both the UK and abroad (SFO, SOCA, Arab Republic of Egypt, DOJ, Canadian Competition Bureau), as well as complex extradition, Interpol red notices and mutual legal assistance matters. Joanna also has considerable experience with international sanctions, as well as corporations requiring compliance and litigation advice arising from the enforcement of sanctions by the European Council, OFAC and the Swiss Federal Council.

Ali is a partner at Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer and is co-head of the Global Investigations and Corporate Crime practice with a record of acting on major cross-border and domestic investigations for clients in all sectors, including pharma and healthcare, oil and gas, consumer/retail and financial services. Ali specialises in corporate and financial crime defence and regulatory enforcement actions, particularly defending actions brought by the UK Serious Fraud Office (SFO) and/or Financial Conduct Authority (FCA), Financial Reporting Council (FRC) as well as other domestic agencies and overseas authorities. Ali has significant expertise handling money-laundering, false accounting, fraud, bribery/corruption and counter terrorism related matters. She has acted on many of the leading enforcement decisions brought by the FCA, especially in cases involving financial crime, cyber, market abuse, market manipulation, and disclosure and listing obligations cases. Ali is recognised as a leading individual in corporate and financial crime, contentious financial services and global investigations by all major directories. Ali is a sector group leader of Freshfields' London pro bono practice and is a member of the firms Responsible Business Board. She is also a trustee of the RCJ Citizens Advice Bureau.

John is a partner from BCL Solicitors, a leading Legal 500 white-collar crime firm, with particular expertise in the business crime sector. His main area of interest includes cases involving allegations of bribery, fraud and money laundering. John is not only an expert on the many and various legal provisions on the anti-money laundering requirements in the regulated sector, but he also has years of experience dealing with high profile confiscation and civil recovery cases. He is both a business crime expert that represents domestic and international clients as well as an author who actively writes publications.

As the Head of Bindmans LLP’s leading Crime Fraud and Regulatory team, Katie has a wide range of experience of criminal and regulatory investigations and prosecutions. She has acted in high profile cases involving specialist prosecution agencies such as the Serious Fraud Office (SFO) and the Financial Conduct Authority (FCA). Katie advises a broad range of clients including employees, directors and trustees of organisations, businesses and NGO’s, doctors teachers and journalists and media organisations. With strong expertise in dealing with cases involving allegations of business and work related crime, Katie offers invaluable insight into the area of criminal law.