Richard Burger > Wilmer Cutler Pickering Hale and Dorr LLP > London, England > Lawyer Profile
Wilmer Cutler Pickering Hale and Dorr LLP Offices
49 PARK LANE
LONDON
W1K 1PS
England
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Richard Burger
Position
Partner
Career
Richard Burger is a seasoned white-collar defense and investigations practitioner with over 25 years’ experience in complex domestic and international regulatory enforcement and criminal investigations.
Mr. Burger is a former investigative lawyer and prosecutor with two of the UK’s leading financial regulators: the FSA, the predecessor to the Financial Conduct Authority (FCA), and the Financial Reporting Council (FRC). He has also been on secondment, as the Head of Compliance and Legal to the London market operation of a NYSE Listed Bermudian insurer.
Mr. Burger’s practice spans all aspects corporate crime, securities enforcement, and financial services compliance. He is highly experienced in advising boards on: close supervision by regulators, anti-financial crime, focusing on bribery, as well as corporate governance issues; conducting internal corporate investigations, as well as devising remediation schemes. He has conducted private prosecutions for regulators and local government, as well as on behalf of corporates to protect their assets.
Informed by his extensive experience in criminal, regulatory and professional disciplinary law, Mr. Burger has successfully defended clients under investigation by a wide range of regulators and agencies including the Serious Fraud Office (SFO), FCA, FRC, Society of Lloyd’s, Prudential Regulation Authority (PRA), HM Revenue and Customs (HMRC), National Crime Agency (NCA) and US Department of Justice (DOJ).
He has also represented professional services firms and their partners under investigation by the FRC, Institute of Chartered Accountants in England and Wales (ICAEW), and Solicitors Regulation Authority (SRA), with a particular focus on non-financial misconduct and anti-money laundering systems governance. In his professional disciplinary practice, Burger has prosecuted for medical regulators, including the General Medical Council (GMC), and now sits as Chair of the Disciplinary Panel for the Chartered Institute for Securities and Investment (CISI).
Lawyer Rankings
London > Dispute resolution > Professional discipline
(Leading individuals)London > Crime, fraud and licensing > Fraud: white-collar crime (advice to individuals)
Consistently advising clients in multi-jurisdictional SFO investigations, the London WilmerHale team effectively combines ‘US law firm heft’ with ‘gold-standard’ UK lawyers, according to one client. The group has considerable expertise handling white-collar proceedings being investigated by the NCA, FCA, and HMRC, along with international cases involving the US DOJ and SEC. The ‘legendary’ Stephen Pollard
heads the practice, specialising in financial services fraud, market manipulation, and internal investigations, while the arrival of Richard Burger as a partner from DWF in January 2023 adds more than 25 years’ experience in domestic and global regulatory enforcement and criminal proceedings to the department. Meanwhile, counsel, Lloyd Firth , is highly knowledgeable in all matters relating to bribery and corruption, money laundering, and insider dealing. David Rundle left the firm for Bryan Cave Leighton Paisner in May 2023.
London > Corporate and commercial > Financial services: contentious
With ‘market-leading‘ practice head Stephen Pollard at the helm, WilmerHale continues to be a firm of choice for stellar individual-side representation. Senior executives facing regulatory exposure value the firm’s ‘high quality advice‘ and breadth of experience with leading financial regulators, including the FCA and FRC. In January 2023, Richard Burger joined the team from DWF, bringing with him extensive experience acting in complex domestic and international regulatory enforcement proceedings and criminal investigations.
London > Risk advisory > Regulatory investigations and corporate crime (advice to corporates)
The WilmerHale practice is headed by ‘the Top Gun in the London white-collar market’, Stephen Pollard, who brings vast expertise in advising clients in high-profile proceedings brought by the SFO, FCA, and NCA. The team’s client list includes notable companies from within the extractives and technology spheres, along with authorities from across the globe, as the department is highly regarded for dealing with proceedings arising from allegations of historic bribery and market manipulation. Richard Burger joined the firm as partner from DWF in January 2023, specialising in complex international regulatory enforcement and criminal investigations, whilst counsel Lloyd Firth focuses on money laundering and tax evasion issues.
Lawyer Rankings
- Leading individuals London > Dispute resolution > Professional discipline
- Fraud: white-collar crime (advice to individuals) London > Crime, fraud and licensing
- Regulatory investigations and corporate crime (advice to corporates) London > Risk advisory
- Financial services: contentious London > Corporate and commercial
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Firm Rankings
- Crime, fraud and licensing > Fraud: white-collar crime (advice to individuals)
- TMT (technology, media and telecoms) > Intellectual property: patents (contentious and non-contentious)
- Dispute resolution > Public international law
- Risk advisory > Regulatory investigations and corporate crime (advice to corporates)
- Corporate and commercial > Financial services: contentious