Constantine Law Limited

Regulatory and Criminal Investigations

Partner

Vivien joined Constantine Law in 2025. She was formerly a partner at Shearman Bowen. Vivien is an experienced criminal lawyer whose practice is split between fraud/financial crime and general crime. Vivien has experience of dealing with large-scale criminal investigations and prosecutions including those conducted by the CPS, NCA, SFO, FCA and HMRC.

Vivien has been involved in complex multi-handed fraud and bribery prosecutions including:

Advising an individual charged with bribery involving various London nightclub owners alleged to have offered bribes to a serving police officer

Advising a company director charged with fraud, money laundering and false accounting following an investigation into a large-scale fraud in which London Underground was the alleged victim

Her fraud and financial crime practice also encompasses advising individuals and corporates in respect of various aspects of the Proceeds of Crime Act 2002 (POCA).  She has experience of advising in respect of confiscation proceedings, account and asset freezing orders and forfeiture proceedings. Vivien has particular expertise in advising third-parties who wish to intervene in confiscation proceedings under section 10A of POCA.

Vivien’s general crime practice has spanned the full range of offences but in recent years her focus has been on relationship-based offences including allegations of rape and sexual offences, coercive and controlling behaviour, intimate partner violence and harassment.

Vivien is also the co-author of the highly regarded practitioner text Legal Professional Privilege in Criminal Investigations and Proceedings which was published in 2024.

Vivien was admitted as a solicitor in 2011.