Thomas Hubbard
Senior Associate
About
Thomas is a senior associate in our Corporate Crime, Investigations and Inquiries team. He advises companies and directors on a wide range of corporate criminal and regulatory issues, including bribery and corruption, fraud, money laundering, and health and safety.
He has significant experience of responding to investigations brought by UK and foreign authorities including the Serious Fraud Office (SFO), Financial Conduct Agency, National Crime Agency, the police, HM Revenue and Customs, and the Health and Safety Executive, as well as the US Department of Justice, Swiss Office of the Attorney General, and authorities in many EU, Commonwealth and British Overseas jurisdictions.
In particular, Thomas has experience of successfully defending two of the largest and highest-profile SFO prosecutions of recent years (R v Rogberg and R v Dahdaleh). And he was also ‘on call’ for two of the most recent SFO dawn raids.
Thomas has conducted numerous internal investigations for companies on a variety of sensitive and complex matters, helping companies to effect robust inquiries and managing dealing with regulators. He also regularly advises clients on information requests from a variety of UK and foreign authorities.
Prior to joining Burges Salmon, Thomas was a senior associate at a leading international law firm in London.
Experience
- P&O Ferries: Representing P&O Ferries in the high-profile criminal investigation by the Insolvency Service arising out of the company’s widely publicised redundancies. The investigation concluded with no charges brought.
- Multinational company: Representing a multinational company in a six-year investigation by the SFO into alleged systemic fraud connected to the certification of its products. The investigation concluded with no charges brought.
- Former CFO: Successfully representing the former CFO of Tesco against charges of fraud and false accounting brought by the SFO arising out of an alleged “£250 million black hole” in Tesco’s accounts and securing an acquittal on all charges.
- Victor Dahdaleh: Successfully representing Victor Dahdaleh, in one of the largest SFO bribery corruption prosecutions to date securing an acquittal on all charges. The case centred on allegations of bribery in multi-billion dollar deals in the aluminium industry.
- Multi-billion dollar energy company: Advising a multi-billion dollar energy company and its household name shareholders in a wide-ranging bribery, fraud and anti-trust investigation.
- UK manufacturing company: Advising a UK manufacturing company on three internal, HSE and police corporate manslaughter investigations following three separate incidents.
Credentials
- Admitted as a solicitor: England and Wales (2017)
- Pro Bono Recognition List of England & Wales (2024)