BCL Solicitors LLP

BCL Solicitors is a market-leading law firm specialising in domestic and international corporate and financial crime, tax investigations and litigation, financial regulatory enforcement, corporate manslaughter, health and safety offences, disciplinary proceedings, serious and general crime, and related areas of anti-money laundering, anti-corruption compliance, and risk management. The firm provides discreet and expert advice to senior executives, corporations, public bodies, public figures, and high-profile or high-net-worth individuals facing criminal or regulatory investigations and prosecutions. Its lawyers are drawn from specialist criminal law firms, barristers’ chambers, commercial law firms, prosecuting authorities, and the Government Legal Service.

The firm advises on corporate and financial crime matters including fraud, false accounting, corruption, and sanctions offences, both domestically and internationally, including extradition proceedings and Interpol challenges. It has extensive experience managing complex, multi-jurisdictional, business- and reputation-sensitive investigations, often in collaboration with other lawyers, forensic accountants, and reputation management professionals. BCL also acts in HMRC investigations, prosecutions, and civil litigation, with significant expertise in tax avoidance, tax evasion, and settlements. In the regulatory sphere, the firm represents individuals in FCA investigations involving insider dealing, market abuse, and market manipulation.

BCL advises corporate clients, boards, and directors on regulatory investigations, crisis management, and liability in areas such as corporate manslaughter, health and safety, fire safety, food safety, hygiene, environmental protection, consumer protection, and trading standards, and assists with matters before the Police, HSE, Environment Agency, Food Standards Agency, and other regulatory bodies. The firm also acts in Coroner’s inquests and public inquiries. Its expertise extends to money laundering and Proceeds of Crime Act issues, including restraint, freezing, confiscation, cash seizure, unexplained wealth, and civil recovery.

In compliance and risk management, BCL advises on anti-money laundering and anti-bribery compliance, corporate liability, and risk prevention, and conducts internal reviews and investigations for corporate clients. The firm also represents individuals facing disciplinary proceedings before bodies such as the Bar Council, Solicitors Regulation Authority, General Medical Council, Medicines and Healthcare products Regulatory Agency, and British Horseracing Authority.

With a long-standing reputation in serious and general crime, the firm provides specialist and discreet advice on matters ranging from homicide to road traffic offences at all stages of the criminal justice process. Many of its clients are prominent individuals in business, industry, entertainment, sport, and media, where discretion and reputation management are critical.

Languages
French
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Gujarati
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Italian
Japanese
Russian
Spanish

Staffing
16 UK partners
17 other UK fee-earners