Senior Corporate Crime and 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, government agencies and high net worth individuals on all aspects of corporate crime and regulatory investigations. Our team specialises in emergency response and crisis management, corporate and director liability, undertaking  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; recovery of the proceeds of crime; environmental 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)
• Andrew Matheson, (Legal 500)
• Ben Davies, Key Lawyer (Legal 500)

What others say…

• “An outstanding team boasting huge experience across the whole range of criminal regulatory, inquest, and inquiry work. The team combines superb strategic and tactical sense with attention to detail and superb client care.” (Legal 500)

• “Burges Salmon LLP‘s corporate crime and investigations team excels in its representation of corporates in a range of complex and often national financial crime cases, criminal cases surrounding environmental and health and safety legislation including corporate manslaughter issues, and cross-border sanctions matters.” (Legal 500)

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 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

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 Law Firms to Work At 2026

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 Katie Harding on 01179027286