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On 11 August 2025, HM Revenue & Customs ("HMRC") initiated its first corporate prosecution under the failure to prevent the facilitation of tax evasion offence, which was introduced by the Criminal Finances Act 2017. Bennett...more
On 18 August 2025, the UK’s Crown Prosecution Service (CPS) and the Serious Fraud Office (SFO) announced the updated version of the joint guidance in relation to the prosecution of corporate entities (the “Guidance”). The...more
The new strict liability corporate criminal offence of Failure to Prevent Fraud (FTPF) comes into effect in England and Wales on 1 September 2025. ...more
On 24 April 2025, the Serious Fraud Office (SFO) issued new guidance signalling a notable shift in its approach to corporate criminal enforcement. For the first time, the SFO has stated that if a company self-reports...more
Fraud is the most common offence in the UK, amounting to 41% of all crime. On 26 October 2023, the UK’s long-awaited Economic Crime and Corporate Transparency Act 20232 (the Act) received Royal Assent, setting out...more
INTRODUCTION - On 26 October 2023, the UK Economic Crime and Corporate Transparency Act 2023 (the "Act") received royal assent and became law. The Act introduces a new strict liability corporate criminal offence of failure...more
Headlines - •The UK government has published its guidance on the new Failure to Prevent Fraud offence which will come into effect on 1 September 2025. •Similar to the UK Bribery Act, the provisions introduced by the Economic...more
New criminal laws in the UK will make companies more vulnerable to criminal prosecution for the acts of their employees and agents than ever before. The Economic Crime and Corporate Transparency Act 2023 (“ECCTA”) introduces...more
On 26 October 2023, the Economic Crime and Corporate Transparency Act 2023 (the "Act" or "EECTA") received royal assent and became law. The Act introduced a number of changes, some of which came into effect immediately and...more
Our White Collar, Government & Internal Investigations Team examine the Crown Prosecution Service’s first deferred prosecution agreement and what it means for future enforcement....more
The long-awaited Economic Crime and Corporate Transparency Act received Royal Assent on 26 October. This represents a significant turning point for the law on corporate criminal liability in the UK, and has been welcomed by...more
The new Economic Crime and Corporate Transparency Act 2023 (the Act) is the latest step in the UK Government’s attempts to address economic crime and improve transparency over corporate entities. Whilst most of the key...more
Individuals continue to face risk from prosecutions for economic crime, despite media focus on corporate criminal liability reforms. Four individuals have today appeared at Westminster Magistrates’ Court charged with fraud...more
On June 15, 2023, the UK Government announced that it would seek to introduce the biggest reform of corporate criminal liability in England and Wales for more than 50 years. ...more
On 11 April 2023, the UK Government announced the introduction of a new corporate “failure to prevent fraud” offence, which will be brought into legislation through the Economic Crime and Corporate Transparency Bill (the...more
When the UK government pushed the Economic Crime (Transparency and Enforcement) Act through Parliament at breakneck speed earlier this year, it always made clear that it had plans for a second, complimentary piece of...more
Background: Current Law in England & Wales As the law currently stands in England & Wales, criminal liability for certain offences can be attributed to companies through the ‘Identification Principle’, which provides that, in...more
On 10 June, the Law Commission published its long awaited Options Paper, with proposals on reforming corporate criminal liability in England and Wales, following the launch of its discussion paper in June 2021...more
In its second year, the Biden administration has made clear its prioritisation of white-collar prosecutions. This includes changes in policy and guidance, such as a renewed focus on individual accountability, an increased...more
“It has no soul to be damned and no body to be kicked”. How, then, can a company be held criminally liable? Various jurisdictions have grappled with this question and recent developments in the UK have increased the...more
As widely anticipated, French and U.K. regulators recently published guidance detailing their expectations for corporate cooperation in enforcement investigations. Both sets of guidance demonstrate further alignment of those...more
The much heralded Corporate Co-operation Guidance published by the Serious Fraud Office recently offers little comfort to corporates struggling with the dilemma of whether to self-report wrongdoing. Instead it offers a...more
On 6 August 2019, the UK’s Serious Fraud Office (SFO) released Guidance on what it expects from organisations seeking cooperation credit in the agency’s investigations. The long-awaited Guidance is a codified and clarified...more
Five years ago, in the spring of 2014, Deferred Prosecution Agreements ('DPAs') were first introduced in the UK through the Crime and Courts Act 2013 ('CCA').1 Since then, the Serious Fraud Office ('SFO') has concluded four...more
Across the world, tax authorities are becoming more aggressive and have sharpened their focus on corporates and multinationals. As a result, tax audits, investigations and disputes have increased significantly, both at the...more