Business Crime and Regulation
JMW's Business Crime and Regulation Team has, at its core, a unique blend of criminal defence experience and business law expertise. This allows the team to deal with both individuals and corporate bodies suspected of technical regulatory breaches to serious offences on a whole range of business crime issues; from financial crime / fraud to trading standards prosecutions. Although the team is Manchester based, its practice is best described as niche, which means the team receives regular instructions from clients based regionally to all corners of England and Wales.
The team recognises the strategic importance of being able to provide high quality legal advice and support to its clients as soon as (or in some cases even before) an investigation or prosecution has begun. The team is regularly instructed in investigations conducted by the Police, HMRC and any local government Trading Standards Office.
The specialist team is tight knit allowing its members to be highly client focused providing exceptional standards of care and support. The emphasis is that each case is Partner-led by one of its two Partners Peter Grogan and Isaac Mirza. Peter heads the team and is recognised as a "leading individual" and someone as having "considerable expertise in serious crime and commercial fraud" in the Chambers' Guide to The Legal Profession. Both Peter and Isaac are well respected in their field and are both accredited fraud panel supervisors and are members of the legal Services Commission's VHCC(Crime) panel.
Services include:
- high quality client care and support - no matter how big or small your case a partner will always have hand-on involvement
- advice, assistance and representation during an investigation, prosecution or court proceedings
- in-house corporate and commercial expertise
- readily accessible advice from experts in forensic accountancy, computers, banking, investigations, valuations, copyright & trademarks etc
Specialist advice and assistance on the following issues:
- Trading Standards Cases; any matter being investigated or prosecuted by Trading Standards Service's officers
- Fraud & Financial Crime; investigated or prosecuted by the Police (Financial investigation Unit or Economic Crime Unit), Serious Organised Crime Agency (SOCA), Revenue and Customs (HMRC), Financial Services Authority (FSA), Serious Fraud Office (SFO) and the Fraud Prosecution Service (FPS)
- Money Laundering; Advice and assistance on money laundering compliance and representation in relation to any Proceeds of Crime Act 2002 (POCA) case
- Confiscation; Criminal Justice Act 1988 (CJA 1988) Proceeds of Crime Act 2002 (POCA 2002) representation and assistance with disposal of confiscated property.
Other Services:
Please follow the links on the right to see further details of our services.
If you need advice please contact:
Peter Grogan on 0845 872 6666 / 07836 280 993 or by email at: peter.grogan@jmw.co.uk
Isaac Mirza 0845 872 6666 / 07831291538 or by email at: isaac.mirza@jmw.co.uk
