Brabners LLP

Corporate Defence & Compliance

Dan is a Partner and leads our corporate defence and compliance team.
With over 27 years as a white-collar crime practitioner (having qualified in 1997), he acts for a range of clients including individuals, corporates, partnerships and charities.

Over his almost three decades in practice, Dan has vast experience in acting in the full range of criminal and regulatory investigations and prosecutions including those brought by the Serious Fraud Office, Financial Conduct Authority, CPS, HMRC and other regulators including those with parallel regulatory and linked financial, confiscation and restraint matters.

In 2015 he became an Accredited Counter Fraud Specialist having been trained by the City of London Police Economic Crime Academy and as such advises organisations and individuals in respect of compliance (including anti-money laundering, bribery and corruption and the Criminal Finances Act 2017) and counter fraud as well as internal investigations.

Dan is a member of the Fraud Lawyers Association, Proceeds of Crime Lawyers Association and the International Bar Association (Business Crime).

He previously secured the first ever acquittal of a Managing Director of a steel tech company prosecuted by the Serious Fraud Office (SFO) for bribery and corruption in the UK’s first prosecution of individuals following the second ever deferred prosecution agreement being reached with the corporate Sarclad Ltd. This case involved an internal investigation conducted by external lawyers instructed by the parent company.

Examples of Dan's work include:

• The SFO investigation into TATA Speciality steels.
• The SFO investigation into AMEC Foster Wheeler Energy.
• The SFO case arising from the investigation into the Anglo-American Group.
• The SFO Miners Compensation Fund investigation.
• The SFO case arising from the collapse of the menswear group Ciro Citerrio.
• The SFO investigation involving Lord Davenport and Gresham Ltd.
• The SFO prosecution of individuals in the Duckers Furniture Ltd asset stripping case.
• The SFO prosecution involving the collapse and asset stripping of Uno Shopfitting Ltd, Wavetown Ltd and Abbotts Wholesale (Tobacconists and Confectioners) Ltd.
• The SFO prosecution of individuals in the Prudential Commercial case.
• Representation of two directors charged with bribery and corruption under the Prevention of Corruption Act 1906 in respect of matters concerning the London Underground.

Dan joined us in 2022. He works with clients across the country.