Brown Rudnick LLP

White Collar Defense, Investigations and Compliance

Partner

Paul Feldberg is a partner and head of the firm’s U.K. White Collar Defense, Investigations & Compliance practice in London. He advises and defends companies and individuals in matters relating to sanctions, export controls, criminal fraud, corruption, money laundering, insider trading and other diverse regulatory actions, including appealing and judicially reviewing those actions when appropriate.

Paul is also a highly experienced trial lawyer with over 25 years of experience as both a prosecutor and defense counsel. As a former prosecutor for Her Majesty’s Revenue Customs Office, the U.K. Serious Fraud Office (SFO) and other regulators, Paul has worked on several high-profile cases, including as counsel in the House of Lords extradition case of Re Gillian, Re Ellis (2000). Paul has also successfully defended a global bank subject to simultaneous SFO, FCA and civil enforcement action. He has conducted trials and other court work on behalf of both corporations and individuals subject to SFO, Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) and other regulatory investigations or prosecutions.

Paul has been ranked by Chambers UK for Corporate Crime & Investigation since 2022, with clients commenting that he is “sharp in mapping different case aspects” and has a “good overview of different risks”. One client commented that "Paul understands the delicacies of a case and is very tactical and shows exceptional judgement." In Legal 500, Paul has been recommended for Regulatory Investigations and Corporate Crimes; has been described in the U.K. guides as “responsive and easy to deal with and very active in the sanctions and white collar community” and someone with “great technical knowledge.”

Prior to joining Brown Rudnick, Paul was a partner at Jenner & Block, where he served as co-chair of the National Security, Sanctions and Export Controls practice and the Anti-Corruption and FCPA practice.

England & Wales

The City Law School (formerly Inns of Court School of Law), Bar Vocational Course

City, University of London, Post-Graduate Diploma in Law

University of Bristol, B.A., honours