Andrew Wallis
Andrew primarily advises companies from a variety of sectors on criminal, regulatory and compliance risk. He has acted in many of the highest profile fraud, corruption and financial scandals of the last decade. Andrew advises corporates on crisis management, including crises involving business human rights and ethics.
Andrew has advised some of the world’s most prominent corporations and individuals to help manage criminal, regulatory, compliance and ethical issues, investigations and proceedings.
Andrew has defended criminal and regulatory investigations and trials brought by the SFO, FCA, CPS, HMRC, Takeover Panel and other bodies, often with the involvement of foreign bodies such as the DOJ and SEC.
Accredited by the City of London Police as a Counter-Fraud Specialist, he has also acted in diverse large-scale corporate internal investigations, ranging from multi-million pound financial services mis-selling to international corruption/fraud and gross negligence manslaughter.
Andrew has extensive experience of representing financial services businesses and professionals in FCA criminal and regulatory matters and was seconded to the FSA (predecessor to the FCA).
Andrew provides anti-bribery and anti-money laundering compliance/remediation advice and training to corporate clients and has given training and presentations to senior executives, boards, compliance and in-house legal teams in a range of industries, across a range of topics. He has assisted companies with the resolution of high volumes of serious complaints on a number of occasions.
Case examples
Advising central parties in a global multi-billion dollar fraud/market abuse investigation involving numerous global regulators and prosecutors
Appointed as a bribery and accounting fraud ombudsman for a multi-national company
Acting for a global company in connection to a public inquiry and criminal investigation
Successfully defending an SFO fraud prosecution of an executive of a FTSE100 company
Leading a global bank's compliance / regulatory remediation of $1 billion money-laundering issues
Related expertise
- Bribery & Corruption
- Business Ethics, Human Rights & Product/Service Risk
- Compliance
- Criminal Cartels
- Criminal Fraud
- Criminal Restraint & Confiscation
- Dawn Raids
- Employee Fraud
- Extradition
- FS Regulatory/FCA Investigations & Enforcement
- INTERPOL Red Notices
- Inquiries & Inquests
- Internal Investigations
- Money Laundering
- Mutual Legal Assistance
- Serious & General Crime
- Sports Investigations
- Tax Investigations
- Tax Prosecutions