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Fraud and Business Crime
Our specialist lawyers advise on a range of fraud and business crime matters, including money laundering, bribery, tax-evasion, and market abuse. Our team combines strategic defence with practical support during criminal and regulatory investigations, ensuring swift action in critical moments such as dawn raids or cross-border disputes. Beyond crisis response, we help organisations strengthen resilience through tailored fraud and business crime prevention programmes and risk management advice.
Overview
Our expert team advises businesses and individuals on investigations and prosecutions involving fraud and business crime. We help you take the right steps early to achieve the best possible outcome as quickly as possible.
We manage high-profile, sensitive investigations with proactive strategies and have extensive experience in cross-border cases involving multiple jurisdictions. We are adept at defending parties subjected to investigation and prosecution by criminal authorities for fraud and related conspiracy offences. Our team respond effectively to dawn raids, represent individuals in interviews, assist to respond to documentary production orders, and regularly act for individuals and businesses at trial in the Magistrates’ and Crown Courts.
Fraud and financial crime prevention is essential, and we help organisations develop proportionate systems and controls. For example, advising on due diligence, employee screening, secret profiteering, competitive intelligence, and corporate fraud. In cases of fraud loss, we act swiftly to protect assets pending enforcement and recovery action, coordinating successful litigation, tracing and recovery strategies across multiple jurisdictions if required.
We deliver advice on the full range of fraud issues, including asset theft, brand protection, intellectual property infringement, deceit, breach of fiduciary duties, wrongful use of data, and theft of confidential information.
Featured experience
- Acting for an oil and gas company, its subsidiaries and statutory directors, in defence of a claim for £85m involving allegations of unlawful means conspiracy and defrauding creditors
- Acting for a professional services client in a combined SFO criminal and FCA enforcement investigation concerning regulated perimeter offences and fraud offences relating to the alleged promotion and operation of a collective investment scheme
- Acting for CMC Markets Plc and its worldwide subsidiaries in a fraud/conspiracy claim against the Group’s Chief Commercial Officer. The claim alleges secret profits via 'introduction fees' and 'facilitation payments' from contractors in construction projects in 14 different jurisdictions.
- Acting for multiple individuals in connection with FCA, US DoJ/CFTC regulatory and criminal investigations into LIBOR, EURIBOR and F/X manipulation
- Representing individuals under investigation and witnesses to investigations by the FCA in connection with criminal insider dealing, including Operation Tabernula the largest and most complex insider dealing investigation ever launched
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Insurance
DAC Beachcroft is recognised as a pre-eminent advisor to the insurance market, and we place a strong emphasis on the long-term relationships we build with you so that we can really add value to your business.
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Health and Social Care
DAC Beachcroft is regarded as market leaders in the provision of corporate, commercial and regulatory legal advice to healthcare providers.
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Real Estate
Our real estate lawyers support you through the full real estate development cycle, from acquisition to disposal. Working with clients in the private and public sectors, we deliver clear, practical advice that aligns with your commercial priorities and long‑term strategy.
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Financial Services
We regularly advise product designers and manufacturers, trade bodies, and retailers, distributors and venture capitalists looking to invest in the financial services sector.
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Technology
As long-standing and trusted advisers in the technology sector, we deliver pragmatic and innovative solutions that empower you to make informed decisions about how best to maximise your success.
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Industry Specialisms
We combine our in-depth sector knowledge with astute commercial awareness and global reach.
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Why choose DAC Beachcroft?
We’re a broad-based commercial firm serving a wide range of sectors with a strong heritage in insurance,
health and real estate. We combine excellent legal skills and cutting-edge delivery expertise to design
solutions that fit the needs of our clients – often involving clever uses of technology.
