Sam Aldous Senior Associate

Sam is a senior associate, and his practice straddles both regulatory enforcement and corporate/financial crime.

Sam specialises in crisis management, internal investigations, and corporate and director liability, and has a wealth of experience of corporate engagement with regulators, and complex investigations and prosecutions by numerous authorities in the UK, Europe and the US.

Sam’s practice covers serious fraud and money laundering, bribery and corruption, insider dealing and market abuse, health and safety, and environmental protection (including waste and permitting). His expertise extends to the complementary areas of civil fraud, AML/ABC compliance and judicial review of the actions of investigators and regulators.

Sam has also handled a broad range of complex commercial disputes for clients in a range of sectors, with particular experience in the financial services sector.

Sam plays a central role in our Dispute Resolution unit and Business Crime and Regulatory Investigations team. He is supported by our extensive dispute resolution practice, which includes civil litigators with a regulatory specialism as well as experienced criminal practitioners making the team a “one-stop shop” for clients’ civil and criminal investigations.

• Advising a major manufacturing company in relation to a global investigation into allegations of fraud, bribery and corruption by regulatory authorities in multiple jurisdictions, including the Serious Fraud Office and US Department of Justice.

• Advising corporate clients in relation to multi-fatality accidents, including conducting internal investigations and advising on engagement with investigators and regulators.

• Advising a leading company in the waste sector, in connection with a criminal investigation by the Environment Agency (EA), engagement with the EA’s Definition of Waste Service and judicial review of the EA’s use of allegedly unlawful enforcement action.

• Advising various companies in relation to actions against former directors and employees to recover monies obtained by fraudulent conduct.

• Conducting an FCA-prompted internal investigation for an advertising business to identify the extent to which it had been performing financial promotion and credit brokerage without authorisation from the FCA. .Advising leading accountancy firms in relation to investigations by the Financial Reporting Council and the Institute of Chartered Accountants in England and Wales.

• Advising various companies in relation to ABC and AML policies and procedures, and wider compliance issues (including issues related to the Proceeds of Crime Act 2002 and the Money Laundering, Terrorist Financing and Transfer of Funds (Information on the Payer) Regulations 2017).