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Neil Swift
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Work Department
Domestic and international business crime and regulation.
Position
Partner in the business crime department. He has a broad range of experience in the fraud area, with particular expertise in advising individual and corporate clients in relation to investigations and prosecutions by the Serious Fraud Office, HM Revenue & Customs, the Office of Fair Trading, the Serious Organised Crime Agency and the Crown Prosecution Service, specialising in particular in corruption inquiries, cartel matters and tax inquiries, as well as investigations by regulators, including the Financial Services Authority and other professional bodies. Much of Neil’s work involves him advising as part of multi-jurisdictional and multi-disciplinary teams of professionals. Neil has been involved with several recent high-profile corruption cases, representing both company directors and companies in relation to enquiries being conducted by the SFO, often in conjunction with overseas law enforcement, particularly the US Department of Justice. Neil assisted the GC100 in their representations to the government at the committee stage of the Bribery Act. He was also a contributing author to Blackstone’s guide to the Bribery Act 2010. Neil also represented a senior executive of a UK company in the parallel investigations by the US Department of Justice and Office of Fair Trading into allegations of price fixing and bid-rigging in the marine hose market, which culminated in the execution of a ground-breaking plea agreement in the US, under which his client was permitted to return to the UK to plead guilty in England as part of the OFT’s first prosecution under the Enterprise Act.
Career
Trained at Peters & Peters; qualified 1999. Became partner in the business crime team on 1 February 2010.
Member
European Criminal Bar Association; Proceeds of Crime Lawyers Association.
Education
University of Sheffield, LLB Hons (1995).
Practice Areas
Crime - corporate; Fraud; Tax - VAT, C&E
