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Guy Wilkes

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Work Department

Finance and Banking

Career

Guy specialises in regulatory disputes, particularly involving financial and professional services and has been involved in some of the FCA and PRA’s highest profile investigations against both individuals and institutions. He was formerly a member of the FCA’s senior leadership team and had responsibility for developing enforcement strategy, especially in relation to financial crime and anti-money laundering where he chaired the cross-divisional working group. While at the FCA, Guy set up and ran an internal expert group for investigations against senior individuals and also chaired the FCA’s insolvency expert group.

Guy also conducts and advises clients on internal investigations, including those involving directors and senior managers.

His regulatory experience involves a wide range of matters including anti-money laundering and anti-bribery controls, listings rule breaches, conflicts of interest, suitability of investment advice, treatment of customers, client asset rules, market misconduct, competition law and personal culpability of individuals.

Guy’s court experience is extensive and includes civil litigation before the Court of Appeal and Supreme Court in cases involving regulatory disputes, fraud, asset tracing, insolvency and commercial disputes.