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- Alice Lepeuple /
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- Anna Rothwell /
- Ben Henriques /
- Claire Cross /
- Danielle Reece-Greenhalgh /
- David Corker /
- Edward Grange /
- Evgeni Voznoi /
- Gemma Tombs /
- Jemma Sherwood-Roberts /
- Jessica Maguire /
- Jessica Parker /
- Kim Nihill /
- Maia Cohen-Lask /
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- Peter Binning /
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- Rachel Quickenden /
- Robert Brown /
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Claire Cross Partner
Claire Cross is a senior lawyer, specialising in all areas of white collar fraud. Claire joined Corker Binning as Of Counsel in November 2016. Prior to this she acted as a Senior Lawyer at the Financial Conduct Authority in the Enforcement Division, advising and prosecuting the full spectrum of enforcement action.
Latest Posts
- Claire Cross examines the FCA’s annual report and the SMCR regime in CDR Magazine
- Claire Cross comments on how the FCA could use the SMCR as a tool to tackle sexual harassment in Thomson Reuters Regulatory Intelligence
- Claire Cross attending the European Fraud and Compliance Lawyers Conference 2018
- Claire Cross discusses insider trading in Financier Worldwide
- Corker Binning announces Partner and Of Counsel Promotions
- Claire Cross attending the 32nd Annual National Institute on White Collar Crime
- Ignorance is not bliss at the FCA
- Claire Cross comments on the FCA tightening its antitrust rules in Behavox
- What to expect when you are the subject of an FCA investigation
- Claire Cross comments on ex-Bank of America trader fined for market abuse in Bloomberg
Areas of expertise
Claire has expertise in all areas of white collar crime, with considerable and proven experience in complex FCA criminal and regulatory investigations, money laundering, fraud and cartel cases.
Her prior experience at the FCA and CMA has given her an invaluable insight into the investigation and decision making procedures and policies employed by regulatory and prosecutorial authorities in both the UK and US, which she effectively deploys to her clients advantage.
She has advised individuals in proceedings involving insider dealing, misleading statements and impressions, market abuse, conspiracy to defraud, bribery, and breaches of various regulatory regimes such as the SCMR, APER Principles for individuals, MAR and Money Laundering Regulations.
She also has extensive experience in international legal matters including multi-jurisdictional investigations, foreign regulatory and criminal cases, obtaining evidence from abroad, mutual legal assistance and Letters Rogatory.
Latest Posts
- Claire Cross examines the FCA’s annual report and the SMCR regime in CDR Magazine
- Claire Cross comments on how the FCA could use the SMCR as a tool to tackle sexual harassment in Thomson Reuters Regulatory Intelligence
- Claire Cross attending the European Fraud and Compliance Lawyers Conference 2018
- Claire Cross discusses insider trading in Financier Worldwide
- Corker Binning announces Partner and Of Counsel Promotions
- Claire Cross attending the 32nd Annual National Institute on White Collar Crime
- Ignorance is not bliss at the FCA
- Claire Cross comments on the FCA tightening its antitrust rules in Behavox
- What to expect when you are the subject of an FCA investigation
- Claire Cross comments on ex-Bank of America trader fined for market abuse in Bloomberg
Leveraging its superb white-collar expertise, Corker Binning is particularly accomplished at handling regulatory matters with a criminal angle.
The Legal 500 2016
Latest Posts
- Claire Cross examines the FCA’s annual report and the SMCR regime in CDR Magazine
- Claire Cross comments on how the FCA could use the SMCR as a tool to tackle sexual harassment in Thomson Reuters Regulatory Intelligence
- Claire Cross attending the European Fraud and Compliance Lawyers Conference 2018
- Claire Cross discusses insider trading in Financier Worldwide
- Corker Binning announces Partner and Of Counsel Promotions
- Claire Cross attending the 32nd Annual National Institute on White Collar Crime
- Ignorance is not bliss at the FCA
- Claire Cross comments on the FCA tightening its antitrust rules in Behavox
- What to expect when you are the subject of an FCA investigation
- Claire Cross comments on ex-Bank of America trader fined for market abuse in Bloomberg
Recent work:
- Successfully acting on behalf of an approved person in a complex, multi-jurisdictional FCA dual criminal and regulatory investigation into the making of false/misleading statements to the market, resulting in the termination of the investigation with no further action.
- Acting for an individual in the ongoing SFO investigation into the alleged manipulation of LIBOR.
- Acting for a Senior Director of a listed company in an investigation relating to insider dealing and breaches of the Market Abuse Regulations.
- Advising a Global Head of a bank in respect of an internal investigation into potential mismarking.
- Acting in respect of approved persons for breaches of APER Principles 1, 2 and FIT.
- Advising a Fund Manager in respect of criminal allegations of disclosing inside information and encouraging dealing on that information.
- Representing and advising senior individuals in SFO section 2 interviews.
- Advising on potential cartel prosecutions and offences of providing false or misleading information to regulators.
- Acting for a Partner of a multi-national company in respect of a large scale conspiracy to defraud. Investigation resulted in no further action after representations made.
Latest Posts
- Claire Cross examines the FCA’s annual report and the SMCR regime in CDR Magazine
- Claire Cross comments on how the FCA could use the SMCR as a tool to tackle sexual harassment in Thomson Reuters Regulatory Intelligence
- Claire Cross attending the European Fraud and Compliance Lawyers Conference 2018
- Claire Cross discusses insider trading in Financier Worldwide
- Corker Binning announces Partner and Of Counsel Promotions
- Claire Cross attending the 32nd Annual National Institute on White Collar Crime
- Ignorance is not bliss at the FCA
- Claire Cross comments on the FCA tightening its antitrust rules in Behavox
- What to expect when you are the subject of an FCA investigation
- Claire Cross comments on ex-Bank of America trader fined for market abuse in Bloomberg
Career
Claire joined Corker Binning as Of Counsel in October 2016, having previously acted as a Senior Lawyer in the FCA’s Criminal Prosecution Team, since 2008. From October 2015 to July 2016, Claire also acted as the Assistant Director in the Cartels and Criminal Group for the Competition and Markets Authority.
Prior to joining the FCA, Claire worked at SOCA/RCPO/Inland Revenue from 2005, prosecuting a wide range of cases relating to large scale drugs importation, VAT fraud, missing trader fraud, money laundering, and CITES offences.
Latest Posts
- Claire Cross examines the FCA’s annual report and the SMCR regime in CDR Magazine
- Claire Cross comments on how the FCA could use the SMCR as a tool to tackle sexual harassment in Thomson Reuters Regulatory Intelligence
- Claire Cross attending the European Fraud and Compliance Lawyers Conference 2018
- Claire Cross discusses insider trading in Financier Worldwide
- Corker Binning announces Partner and Of Counsel Promotions
- Claire Cross attending the 32nd Annual National Institute on White Collar Crime
- Ignorance is not bliss at the FCA
- Claire Cross comments on the FCA tightening its antitrust rules in Behavox
- What to expect when you are the subject of an FCA investigation
- Claire Cross comments on ex-Bank of America trader fined for market abuse in Bloomberg
Claire Cross examines the FCA’s annual report and the SMCR regime in CDR Magazine