White Collar Crime and Compliance Team
RPC’s white collar crime and compliance team is trusted by some of the world’s leading businesses to advise and support them in conducting internal investigations, deal with prosecutors and regulators, manage compliance risks and develop robust and effective compliance programmes.
Our experienced team can guide you through the complexities of white collar crime and compliance legislation, investigations and regulation – providing you with strategic guidance in the wider commercial environment. This includes advising on compliance programmes, third party risk management systems, risk assessments, sanctions issues and more. When advising on sanctions, we often coordinate with other financial crime advisors in our highly experienced tax team, Adam Craggs, Robert Waterson and Michelle Sloane.
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Deferred Prosecution Agreements
Deferred Prosecution Agreements
While the rise in Deferred Prosecution Agreements (DPAs) might not be quite as dramatic as many predicted, the benefits of securing one remain clear.
Our team, including compliance specialists and former SFO investigators, provides practical and up to date advice on how to prepare for a DPA and in particular how to manage an independent investigation in a way that is more likely to result in a DPA than a corporate prosecution.
A DPA is a court sanctioned agreement between a prosecutor and a corporate entity to suspend prosecution so long as certain conditions continue to be met over a defined period. The aim of a DPA is to ensure that a business makes full reparation for corporate criminal behaviour without undergoing a criminal prosecution of the company that would damage the business and its reputation.
DPAs were first introduced in the UK through Schedule 17 of the Crime and Courts Act 2013. It is a tool available to both the Crown Prosecution Service and the Serious Fraud Office (SFO) for crimes relating to fraud, bribery and other economic offences.
While it is clear the SFO is open to working with businesses it would otherwise intend to prosecute, DPAs will only be granted where it is in the interests of justice, including where the company or companies can demonstrate that they have reformed and fully co-operated with the SFO. In October 2020, the SFO published a comprehensive guide on its approach to DPAs which provides a welcome confirmation of the SFO's process and its priorities but the area is evolving quickly and not understanding the SFO's key drivers, how DPAs work in practice and to work effectively with the SFO , could be a costly mistake.
How we can help
RPC is one of only a handful of legal advisors to have led successful DPA negotiations with the SFO. We were the legal advisors appointed in respect of the 11th and 12th DPAs entered into by the SFO, which represent the first time multiple DPAs have been approved for connected companies at the same hearing.
To discuss DPAs and how we can help further, please do not hesitate to contact sam.tate@rpc.co.uk or kate.langley@rpc.co.uk.
Key Contacts
Sanctions Compliance
Sanctions Compliance
Corporate crime and investigations
SFO Dawn raids
Anti money laundering
Anti-bribery and corruption
Deferred Prosecution Agreements
While the rise in Deferred Prosecution Agreements (DPAs) might not be quite as dramatic as many predicted, the benefits of securing one remain clear.
Our team, including compliance specialists and former SFO investigators, provides practical and up to date advice on how to prepare for a DPA and in particular how to manage an independent investigation in a way that is more likely to result in a DPA than a corporate prosecution.
A DPA is a court sanctioned agreement between a prosecutor and a corporate entity to suspend prosecution so long as certain conditions continue to be met over a defined period. The aim of a DPA is to ensure that a business makes full reparation for corporate criminal behaviour without undergoing a criminal prosecution of the company that would damage the business and its reputation.
DPAs were first introduced in the UK through Schedule 17 of the Crime and Courts Act 2013. It is a tool available to both the Crown Prosecution Service and the Serious Fraud Office (SFO) for crimes relating to fraud, bribery and other economic offences.
While it is clear the SFO is open to working with businesses it would otherwise intend to prosecute, DPAs will only be granted where it is in the interests of justice, including where the company or companies can demonstrate that they have reformed and fully co-operated with the SFO. In October 2020, the SFO published a comprehensive guide on its approach to DPAs which provides a welcome confirmation of the SFO's process and its priorities but the area is evolving quickly and not understanding the SFO's key drivers, how DPAs work in practice and to work effectively with the SFO , could be a costly mistake.
How we can help
RPC is one of only a handful of legal advisors to have led successful DPA negotiations with the SFO. We were the legal advisors appointed in respect of the 11th and 12th DPAs entered into by the SFO, which represent the first time multiple DPAs have been approved for connected companies at the same hearing.
To discuss DPAs and how we can help further, please do not hesitate to contact sam.tate@rpc.co.uk or kate.langley@rpc.co.uk.
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