Helen Harvey Senior Associate

Senior Associate

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Helen is a member of the firm’s corporate crime and investigations practice.

She advises both individuals and corporates on compliance, pre-investigations, investigations and prosecutions. She has represented clients before a number of regulators, including the SFO, HMRC, the FCA and the European Anti-Fraud Office (OLAF). She has been involved in the high-profile bribery investigations into Rolls-Royce and Airbus and the investigation into Barclays regarding the 2008 fund raising.

She has particular expertise in financial sanctions , and is currently helping clients adapt to recent shifts in the global financial sanctions framework. She has published numerous updates on sanctions and spoken on podcasts.

Helen also designs and implements compliance programmes on bribery, corruption, money laundering and sanctions for a wide variety of clients. She delivers training on all aspects of financial crime.

Helen is a member of the Fraud Lawyers Association, the Women's White Collar Defense Association and the Female Fraud Forum.

Expertise

Recent work

SFO investigation

Acting for a large corporate who was raided by the SFO following a multi-jurisdictional investigation into fraudulent contracts.

Sanctions advice

Advising multiple clients in relation to the interpretation and application of financial sanctions.

HMRC investigation

Representing an individual in an HMRC investigation into alleged tax fraud.

FCA investigation

Advising a senior executive in an FCA investigation into financial and non-financial misconduct.

Compliance programme

Undertaking an AML and sanctions review for a corporate.

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What people are saying

The UK Legal 500 2024

In depth

English Court will grant civil remedies notwithstanding parallel criminal proceedings

Nikolas Ireland, Helen Harvey, Michael Freedman, Madeleine Brown 03 Nov 2023

In Stanford Asset Holdings Ltd and another v AfrAsia Bank Ltd (Mauritius) [2023] UKPC 35, the Privy Council decided that Norwich Pharmacal relief can be granted to victims of fraud...

Government to make it easier to convict corporates for senior managers’ wrongdoing

Dominic Sedghi, Helen Harvey 21 Jun 2023

Proposed reforms would automatically attribute criminal liability to corporate bodies where their senior managers commit certain offences, including on corporate transactions

A new year note on the SFO: Review of 2020 and outlook for 2021

Lorna Emson, Helen Harvey 08 Jan 2021

In a year like no other, the SFO appears to have ended the year with a mixed report card. It has had some notable successes, in particular the conclusion of three Deferred...