Guiding you through the criminal and regulatory landscape

Business crime and regulatory investigations come with high stakes, and losing is not an option.

Our Business and Regulatory Solicitors are specialists with extensive experience across various market sectors.

We understand the regulators and their procedures thoroughly, and we excel at relieving you of the burden so you can focus on growing your business.

We are a diverse, multi-lingual law firm utilising cutting-edge technology to deliver streamlined, modern, and highly effective criminal defence and legal support during regulatory investigations.

Our Business Crime and Regulatory Solicitors in Nuneaton and Warwickshire vigorously defend against all types of crime and regulatory actions initiated by the Crown Prosecution Service (CPS) and regulatory bodies, including:

• Fraud
• Money Laundering
• Proceeds of Crime Act (POCA) proceedings
• Corporate Manslaughter
• Regulatory investigations by the SFO, FCA, Trading Standards Authority, HSE, Food Standards Agency, Environment Agency, HMRC, ICO, local authorities, and others.

Our extensive experience in criminal law has earned us a strong reputation for excellence with the UK’s top Barristers and King’s Counsel. Our clients also benefit from our access to the country’s most respected expert witnesses.

Business Crime and Regulatory Offences – Understanding Your Organisation and Market Sector

The biggest mistake organisations make when facing a regulatory investigation is not seeking legal advice as soon as an enforcement body starts asking questions. Innocent requests for information can quickly escalate into full-scale investigations and prosecutions. Our role is to provide you and your Board with the necessary advice to prevent or conclude an investigation swiftly. We achieve this by engaging with key stakeholders in your business to understand your organisation’s culture and market sector. This enables us to build a defence that considers the norms and commercial realities of your industry. We also offer precise advice if you are asked to attend an interview under caution, ensuring legal professional and litigation privilege is maintained throughout the investigation.

Our team has advised organisations ranging from SMEs to large corporations with cross-border concerns. You can trust our process, expertise, and commercial acumen. Whether it’s a health and safety incident, a trading standards breach, or a dawn raid, we will be at your side swiftly, verifying the lawfulness of investigators’ actions, advising staff, documenting interactions, and conducting our own investigation with the goal of quickly closing the inquiry or building a robust defence should prosecution follow.

Advising and Representing Individuals Accused of Criminal Offences

We are highly recommended as expert criminal defence solicitors for those accused of crimes. We provide 24/7 police station representation, ensuring we are there to protect your interests from the outset. Understanding the correct procedures the police must follow when making an arrest, we thoroughly examine the circumstances of your detention and work to get the charges dropped if proper procedures were not followed.

Our criminal law team has extensive experience defending serious charges such as fraud, bribery and corruption, and corporate manslaughter. We work with the country’s leading expert witnesses, focusing on providing trustworthy advice and representation. We recognise that your reputation and possibly your freedom are at stake – we persist until every appeal is exhausted.

Why Choose Us?

We have a comprehensive Criminal Defence Department and can call on a wide range of expertise to devise robust strategies to quickly close down investigations or defend prosecutions. Our Solicitors are intelligent, reliable, and results-driven, with the knowledge and contacts necessary to support your in-house legal team or senior management.

As a full-service law firm, we add value to your business before any compliance breaches occur by advising on preventing regulatory violations. Our team can develop compliance strategies that balance regulatory sensitivities and objectives with commercial reality. Because we aim for long-term relationships, we quickly understand your business and market sector. Using this information, we advise on risk assessments, ensure your contracts comply with international and UK law, and provide emergency response support if a health and safety disaster occurs or your business faces a dawn raid.

To receive expert advice and representation regarding business crime and regulatory investigations, please contact us using the form below.

Cocks Lloyd Solicitors provides exceptional Business Crime & Regulatory Investigations and Business Crime & Regulatory Investigation services to clients. People choose and recommend us not just in Nuneaton, Tamworth, Atherstone, Hinckley and Leicester, but across Warwickshire, Staffordshire, Leicestershire and the West Midlands, and the whole of the UK, because we get results.

To receive expert advice and representation regarding Business Crime & Regulatory Investigations and Business Crime & Regulatory Investigation, please contact us using the form below, call us on (0247) 6641642, email via the Request a Callback form on this contact page.