Timothy Bowden > Dechert LLP > London, England > Lawyer Profile

Timothy Bowden

+44 20 7184 7598 timothy.bowden@dechert.com

Work Department

Anti-Corruption Compliance and Investigations

Position

Partner

Career

Tim Bowden is an experienced white-collar crime and investigations lawyer, with a practice focussed on international fraud, corruption and money laundering. He represents companies and individuals under investigation by and interacting with the Serious Fraud Office, Financial Conduct Authority, National Crime Agency, HMRC and their international counterparts.  He also advises companies on the effectiveness of compliance policies and the application of anti-corruption, anti-money laundering and anti-tax evasion laws, including in M&A transactions.

Mr. Bowden has substantial experience in managing the expectations and demands of multiple parties in complex multi-jurisdictional investigations, and working collaboratively with other advisers. He advised Airbus SE in respect of the conduct of the corruption investigation, and the negotiation of the coordinated DPA/CJIP settlement with the UK Serious Fraud Office, Parquet National Financier, US Department of Justice and US Department of State. He also regularly advises companies or individuals in the financial sector in relation to allegations of manipulation and abuse in the financial markets.

Prior to joining Dechert, Mr. Bowden spent 12 years in practice at the independent bar. He was a Grade 4 prosecutor for the Crown Prosecution Service and served on the specialist panels for organised crime and complex fraud, and the Serious Fraud Office panel of prosecuting counsel.

Mr. Bowden has substantial experience in appellate work, appearing on a diverse range of matters including the meaning of valuable consideration in relation to the tainted gift provisions of POCA, the admissibility of a murder conviction in a subsequent trial for murder; the extent of the right to interpretation under article 6; whether violent carjacking for the purpose of joyriding amounts to robbery; the limits of Sexual Offence Prevention Orders; and the admissibility of statements of absent reluctant witnesses under CJA 2003 section 114(1)(d). He appeared in a leading case limiting police powers of arrest, and in the leading authority on the appropriate level of credit for guilty pleas.

Memberships

• Fraud Lawyers Association
• Criminal Bar Association
• Proceeds of Crime Lawyers Association
• South Eastern Circuit
• Midlands Circuit

Education

• University of Sheffield, LL.B., 2001