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Christopher Gribbin

Christopher Gribbin

Legal Director

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Christopher Gribbin is a Legal Director in the White Collar Crime & Investigations team, with extensive experience advising individuals and corporates on complex regulatory and criminal matters.

He is recognised in Legal 500 (2027) and ranked in Chambers & Partners (2027), where he is described as "highly effective" and as "establishing a reputation for himself as a clever, hard-working lawyer and a very safe pair of hands".

Christopher has acted in a broad range of sensitive and high-profile investigations conducted by authorities including the SFO, FCA, HMRC and NCA. He has particular expertise in matters involving money laundering, bribery, fraud, civil recovery proceedings and export controls.

Alongside his enforcement and investigations practice, Christopher regularly advises businesses on compliance and risk management issues. He also has significant experience conducting internal investigations across a wide variety of matters, acting for organisations ranging from FTSE 100 companies to charitable and not-for-profit bodies.

Christopher is a former committee member of the Young Fraud Lawyers Association. He frequently writes and speaks on developments in white-collar crime and investigations, and was a contributing author to Global Investigation Review's The Guide to Compliance.

 

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Key Experience

  • Acting for a FTSE 100 company in respect of an internal investigation into allegations of criminal misconduct, including advising on subsequent remedial actions
  • Advising senior individuals in relation to a high profile Electoral Commission investigation into alleged EU referendum offences
  • Representing a senior individual in respect of an SFO investigation into alleged fraud, money laundering and false accounting by a UK Plc and others
  • Representing senior Middle East politicians in respect of repeated politically motivated requests for INTERPOL Red Notices
  • Acting for a UK national charged in corruption investigations in Brazil and Panama, providing advice on criminal liability and extradition
  • Defending a UK individual subject to a cross-border HMRC investigation into alleged systemic VAT fraud, including representation and advice on restraint and confiscation
  • Advising a US-based Co-Founder of a London hedge fund in respect of an FCA/SEC investigation into alleged market abuse
  • Advising a multinational corporation on their UK office in respect of the application of money laundering measures and the Bribery Act 2010
  • Acting for a BVI corporate in a successful judicial review of the City of London Police for unlawful detention of $21 million

Career History

Legal Director, Mishcon de Reya LLP
Managing Associate, Mishcon de Reya LLP
Associate, Mishcon de Reya LLP
Associate, Peters & Peters Solicitors LLP
Trainee, Peters & Peters Solicitors LLP

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