Matthew Banham > Dechert LLP > London, England > Lawyer Profile

Dechert LLP
25 Cannon Street
LONDON
EC4M 5UB
England

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Work Department

Anti-Corruption Compliance and Investigations

Position

Partner

Career

Matthew Banham is an established practitioner who specialises in financial crime and regulatory enforcement investigations. His rare combination of experience gained from working in-house in the financial service industry, as well as working for the FCA and the SFO ensures clients receive sound strategic advice when navigating the multi-agency landscape.

White Collar Crime and Compliance: Mr. Banham advises firms and individuals on complex global investigations and advises on money laundering regulations and anti-corruption compliance. He focuses his practice on multi-agency and cross-border investigations with an emphasis on international investigations.

Financial Services: Mr. Banham provides advice and representation to city professionals and firms with a focus on asset managers. He has extensive experience of external and internal investigations across various asset classes involving Regulators in both the United States and United Kingdom.

Prior to joining Dechert, Mr. Banham served as the senior vice president of Barclays Bank’s litigation investigations and enforcement division where he advised and managed external investigations and regulatory risks for the investment bank. When at the Serious Fraud Office he was a Case Controller and he worked and led on the UK’s most complex and landmark cases including; Rolls Royce, LIBOR, and Foreign Exchange benchmarks. Mr. Banham’s previous experience also includes working as counsel at the FCA where he routinely advised and managed investigations and prosecutions into allegations of insider trading, other financial crime offences.

Mr. Banham was called to the Bar in 1999.

Memberships

Honourable Society of the Inner Temple

Education

University of Hertfordshire, LLB Honours 2:1, 1997

Lawyer Rankings

London > Crime, fraud and licensing > Fraud: white-collar crime (advice to individuals)

The ‘powerhouse white-collar team’ at Dechert LLP represents individual clients from across the world, providing vast expertise on market manipulation, serious fraud, and bribery claims. With an extensive client roster of senior directors, c-suite executives, and ultra-high-net-worth individuals, the practice regularly handles domestic investigations brought by the SFO and FCA, as well as international proceedings involving the US Department of Justice (DOJ) and SEC. Practice co-chair Judith Seddon – ‘respected, sophisticated and hugely experienced‘ – specialises in complex money laundering and criminal investigations, while fellow co-head Roger Burlingame draws on his experience as a DOJ prosecutor to deal with cross-border white-collar criminal defence proceedings. Matthew Mazur is well versed in internal investigations, while Tim Bowden frequently manages cases involving international fraud. Other names to note include Matthew Banham, who concentrates on financial crime issues, and Evan Flowers, an expert in anti-bribery compliance and AML sanctions.