Overseas corruption investigations. Many of the SFO’s investigations into overseas corruption, including Rolls Royce, Petrofac, PWS, BAE, Guralp, Rio Tinto, Amec Foster Wheeler, Swift, G4S, Serco, SSL, Torex, De La Rue and GPT.
Cross-border regulatory investigations by authorities globally, including the SFO, FCA, DOJ, CFTC, and NYAG.
Extradition cases: Requests from jurisdictions including the US, Europe, South Africa and New Zealand.
Employee misconduct investigations: Corporate entities, financial institutions and senior individuals on a range of issues relating to employee misconduct.
Internal investigations: Eve’s experience includes acting for corporates in internal investigations into overseas corruption, fraud and money laundering. She has a particular interest in the issues around privilege in criminal investigations and conducting interviews of key witnesses. She regularly interacts with the regulators on behalf of her clients, including the SFO, CMA, FCA and overseas regulators, such as the DoJ.
Corruption / extradition advice, Eve provides anti-bribery advice to corporations and has advised an overseas government on its review of its money laundering and corruption legislation. Eve has regularly acted for senior individuals in the majority of the SFO's overseas corruption investigations into multinational corporations. Her work has included acting in cases relating to parliamentary privilege and misconduct in a public office. She has successfully defended extradition requests from the US, South Africa and EU countries and advises in respect of Interpol Red Notices.
Contentious financial services advice: Eve works closely with our employment and regulatory teams in advising clients on #MeToo allegations. She has acted in a variety of insider dealing, money laundering, market abuse, Libor and FX investigations by the FCA. She acted for an individual in the (then) FSA's first criminal prosecution under FSMA for misleading the market. She has acted for MLROs in dual track criminal and regulatory investigations and she is also acting for a Senior Manager under investigation by the FCA under their Senior Manager regime. She also advised an FCA individual in the Davis Inquiry.
Criminal cartel advice, Eve is one of only a handful of criminal practitioners who are ranked in Band 1 in Chambers for her criminal cartel expertise. She acted in the first contested criminal cartel case (BA / Virgin) and has been involved in nearly all of the CMA's subsequent criminal investigations. She has also advised and represented individuals in a number of the CMA’s civil investigations, including the first online retail case. She regularly advises in respect of immunity application interviews, compelled interviews and interviews under caution.
Fraud, tax, money laundering, sanctions and other matters: Eve regularly provides POCA advice to corporates and regulated firms. She has acted for individuals in money laundering and fraud investigations and trials, and her work includes acting in HMRC and sanctions investigations. She historically advised a number of individuals in respect of an SFO investigation into a dual Ofwat / SFO investigation.