Fielding a team spread across London and Bristol, Burges Salmon LLP‘s corporate crime and investigations team excels in its representation of corporates in a range of complex and often national financial crime cases, criminal cases surrounding environmental and health and safety legislation including corporate manslaughter issues, and cross-border sanctions matters. The corporate crime team is headed up by Guy Bastable, who has extensive experience in crisis management and internal investigations as well as areas such as anti-money laundering compliance, insider trading and market abuse. David Hall, who is head of the disputes, planning and construction department, is also active in the space, advising on matters including cases relating to cyber-fraud attacks, data protection issues and asset recovery. Covering regulatory enforcement and corporate crime work, senior associate Sam Aldous is another key member of the team.

Reeds Solicitors stands out for its expertise in criminal defence work. The practice is divided into the complex crime team, which focuses on large fraud claims, drug conspiracies and HMRC issues; and the private crime team, which advises on motoring issues, education work and general criminal cases. The former is led by Julian Richards, with the latter headed up by Stuart Matthews; both are based in Oxford. In Bristol, Stephen Clifford leads the Crown Court team, regularly defending clients at the Magistrates Court in a range of high-stakes crime cases. Nicola Hutchinson is highly experienced in a broad set of criminal and regulatory matters spanning murder, rape and sexual assault cases, fraud issues, and drug conspiracies. Solicitor advocate Andy Lee is another key member, noted for his representation of clients at the police station as well as the Magistrates Court.

The crime and regulatory team at Stone King LLP consists of solicitor advocates who advise on a wide range of matters spanning fraud to safeguarding issues. In particular, the practice stands out for its expertise in advising on cases that are of a sexual nature, with wider areas of expertise covering regulatory work and prosecutions in the transportation and health spaces as well as firearms licensing work and inquests in the education sector. Located in Bath, practice head Matthew Graham has experience across a range of sexual misconduct and safeguarding matters, as well as mental health and developmental disorder-related issues. Andrew Banks excels in white-collar crime mandates as well as advocacy work across the Magistrates and Crown Courts as well as public inquiries. Senior associate Nicholas Wragg is another key name.

Clarke Willmott LLP advises on all stages of the criminal process, providing support for individuals, businesses, and local government bodies. While the practice is particularly prominent in the agriculture sector, the team's experience also extends to housing standards issues, health and safety work, and traffic and motoring mandates, in addition to environment and pollution, animal welfare, and general crime matters. Based in the Bristol and Taunton offices, senior associate Bridget Sanger leads the team and has a broad focus on criminal litigation and regulatory matters, especially in the agriculture and care home sectors. Sam Harkness is regularly approached for his civil litigation and agricultural property disputes experience, together with his expertise in rural crime issues, road traffic cases, and local authority prosecutions.

DWF‘s criminal defence team sits in the firm’s commercial insurance practice and specialises in motoring and regulatory criminal defence work. In particular, the practice regularly represents insured clients, on behalf of insurers, frequently advising on Road Traffic Act offences. The practice also has a strong track record in environmental offences as well as cases relating to the Health and Safety at Work Act. Senior associate Jessica Murphy leads the Bristol criminal defence team with the support of Manchester-based partner Lee Foulser. Simon Macfarlane is another key team member in Bristol and has experience covering a range of traffic offences as well as cases relating to corporate manslaughter and perverting the course of justice.