March 12, 2024
Rebecca Chalkley joins 9th White Collar Crime Forum being held at Herbert Smith Freehills, Exchange House, 12 Primrose Street, London, EC2A 2EG at 4.30pm on Thursday 21st March 2024.
The panel session is ‘Private prosecutions: retain, reform, or repeal?’ Fellow Panellists include Brian Spiro (HSF) as Chair, Kate McMahon ( EMM Legal) and James McSweeney (Quinn Emanuel Urquhart & Sullivan, LLP). Rebecca will be appointed as Kings Counsel on 18 March 2024.
Rebecca specialises in all areas of corporate crime and corporate wrongdoing. Her practice is cross-border and cross-discipline. She both defends and prosecutes. The Directories list her as a leader in financial crime, business & regulatory crime (including global investigations) and fraud. She has been “spot lighted” for Private Prosecutions. Rebecca was named The Times Lawyer of the Week in April 2022 for the successful prosecution of Boris Becker. She was included in The Lawyer’s Hot 100 list for 2023 She is a member of the LexisNexis Corporate Crime Consulting Editorial Board and the Visiting Professor of Practice at the Institute of Advanced Legal Studies (IALS). As a former Standing Counsel to the Department for Business & the Insolvency Service, Rebecca has a vast experience of bankruptcy and insolvency. In that role she regularly advised the department on the most complicated issues of policy and their prosecutions. She is now regularly instructed in Insolvency matters. She co-authored with Brian Altman KC the independent review into the collapse of R v Woods & Marshall (SERCO). She advises and acts on behalf of corporates, high net worth individuals, in-house and City solicitors in areas such as compliance, Insolvency, corporate governance, business investigations, dispute resolution, fraud and private prosecutions. Read more: [Rebecca Chalkley Profile ]
One of the leading chambers for Business Crime & Fraud, RLC specialise in complex cases of regulatory and criminal fraud-related work, both defending and prosecuting criminal and civil fraud matters. Chambers was awarded “Financial Crime Set of the Year” at the 2023 Legal 500 Awards: [Business Crime & Fraud]
Please register for free here 9th White Collar Crime Forum – [Eventbrite]