United Kingdom: Increasingly Cooperative World of Cross-Border Investigations

Dechert lawyers have authored the United Kingdom chapter in Global Investigations Review’s Europe, Middle East and Africa Investigations Review 2019.

We reported last year that the rise in multi-jurisdictional criminal and regulatory investigations over the past few years has led to improvements in cross-border cooperation between enforcement authorities in corporate investigations, resulting in an increased number of global settlements. This year’s article seeks to expand on that theme, providing a more focused insight into how increased cooperation works in practice, and examining some of the trickier issues to be navigated by companies under investigation in more than one country.

Read 'United Kingdom: The Increasingly Cooperative World of Cross-Border Investigations'.

Accreditation: An extract from Globlal Investigations Review's Europe, Middle East and Africa Investigations Review 2019, first published in July 2019.