Julian Hayes > BCL Solicitors LLP > London, England > Lawyer Profile
BCL Solicitors LLP Offices
51 LINCOLN'S INN FIELDS
LONDON
WC2A 3LZ
England
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Julian Hayes
Work Department
Business Crime and Regulation
Position
Julian is an experienced partner in BCL’s white collar crime and regulatory team. He provides expert advice to individuals in relation to the full range of financial offences, including fraud, bribery, insider dealing, tax offences, and money laundering allegations. Where necessary, Julian is able to draw on his specialist expertise in information law, particularly with regard to law enforcement access to electronic evidence where his knowledge encompasses data protection laws and state agency surveillance / interception powers.
Julian’s individual clients include prominent business people, C-suites executives and other senior corporate employees involved in high profile investigations by the SFO, FCA and HMRC. His recent SFO experience includes the investigations of Rolls Royce and Greenergy. Many of his cases involve cross-border aspects, requiring close co-ordination with lawyers and experts in other jurisdictions including the US, India, the Netherlands, Austria, Switzerland and Greece. A number of his clients are high net worth individuals, and his experience includes advising on the implications of overseas criminal/regulatory investigations, mutual legal assistance, extradition and Interpol.
He is a contributing author to GIR’s handbook ‘Guide to Cyber Investigations’.
Julian writes regularly for national media, principally on emerging issues relating to the highly specialised intersection between law enforcement and information law.
He lectures in the UK and overseas on legal developments relating to electronic evidence, sanctions, and data protection.
Career
Called to the Bar in 1995 and completed pupillage at a leading fraud/criminal/regulatory set of barristers’ chambers. Continued to work in the field of business crime before cross-qualifying as a solicitor with higher rights of audience in 2000 and joining the London Stock Exchange as a financial regulator. Successfully completed the Chartered Institute for Securities and Investment’s Regulation and Compliance Examination. Worked as a commercial fraud and financial services litigator in leading firms in Australia and London before joining BCL in 2006. Publications of note: Contributor to GIR’s Guide to Cyber Investigations as well as numerous cyber-related articles in The Times, Euronews, Information Age, Computer Weekly, Compliance Week and Information Age.
Languages
German
Memberships
Fraud Lawyers Association (Committee Member); European Criminal Bar Association & International Bar Association; The Law Society.
Education
University of Kent – (BA (Hons). University of Northumbria – CPE. Inns of Court School of Law, London – BVC.
Leisure
Theatre & opera, German language & culture, cycling.
Lawyer Rankings
London > Risk advisory > Data protection, privacy and cybersecurity
Boutique firm BCL Solicitors LLP specialises in cybercrime, investigatory and enforcement powers, and general data protection work, acting for individuals and large tech corporations on their engagement with regulators, state authorities, and law enforcement agencies. Former legal director of GCHQ Michael Drury heads the team and is ‘thorough, hard-working, incredibly responsive and always able to anticipate the needs of his clients.’ Julian Hayes‘ expertise spans both contentious and non-contentious matters, handling compliance, policy drafting, incident response, and regulatory investigations, while Richard Reichman advises corporate clients on data breaches and freedom of information act requests.
London > Crime, fraud and licensing > Fraud: white-collar crime (advice to individuals)
(Leading individuals)Counting CEOs, politicians, and business leaders among its client base, the ‘incredibly imaginative’ BCL Solicitors LLP team regularly advises on SFO and financial crime investigations. The group routinely acts for individuals across industries ranging from energy to banking, demonstrating in-depth expertise in everything from money laundering, to tax investigations, to Russian sanction issues. Richard Sallybanks
leads the business crime and regulation division, deploying a ‘global view’ to international fraud and bribery investigations, while Ian Burton has 40 years’ experience handling corruption and extradition matters for domestic and international clients. Harry Travers has an eye for ‘meticulous detail’, regularly assisting individuals involved in contentious tax proceedings and commercial fraud, while Shula de Jersey is an expert on financial crime. Michael Drury is knowledgeable on data and information law issues, and Julian Hayes supports clients in SFO and FCA actions. Shaul Brazil has specialist knowledge in criminal and civil fraud cases, and John Binns specialises in asset forfeiture and complex sanction matters. Anoushka Warlow, Oliver Schneider-Sikorsky and Hannah Raphael are also recommended.
London > Risk advisory > Regulatory investigations and corporate crime (advice to corporates)
Being long-standing and renowned specialists in corporate crime and regulation, the BCL Solicitors LLP team – steered by Richard Sallybanks – is routinely instructed in many significant financial crime investigations conducted by the SFO, HMRC, and the FCA. The firm also has considerable expertise in AML and ESG compliance, with the ‘thoughtful and incisive’ John Binns being a specialist in money laundering matters and corporate criminal offences. Shaul Brazil focuses on sanctions-related compliance issues, while the ‘standout’ Richard Reichman handles regulatory investigations. Julian Hayes concentrates on financial crime affairs, and Anoushka Warlow is noted for her knowledge of serious and commercial fraud.
Lawyer Rankings
- Fraud: white-collar crime (advice to individuals) London > Crime, fraud and licensing
- Leading individuals London > Crime, fraud and licensing > Fraud: white-collar crime (advice to individuals)
- Data protection, privacy and cybersecurity London > Risk advisory
- Regulatory investigations and corporate crime (advice to corporates) London > Risk advisory
Top Tier Firm Rankings
- Crime, fraud and licensing > Crime: general
- Crime, fraud and licensing > Fraud: white-collar crime (advice to individuals)