Caroline Murphy

Partner

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Caroline is an investigations specialist. She advises organisations and individuals caught up in serious and complex criminal and regulatory investigations. She has extensive experience in this area and conducts internal investigations on behalf of her corporate clients when allegations of misconduct arise. 

Caroline advises companies and individuals in connection with investigations by enforcement authorities including the SFO, FCA, CMA and various regulatory bodies.  Much of Caroline’s work is sensitive, high profile and multi-jurisdictional.

Caroline advises clients in a wide range of cases in the white collar and business crime sphere, in cases involving allegations of serious fraud, money laundering, corruption, cartels, and environmental crime, alongside other alleged misconduct. Caroline has extensive experience conducting internal investigations and reviews on behalf of organisations, and her cases often span multiple jurisdictions.

In addition, Caroline represents individuals facing a broad range of criminal and regulatory investigations. She acts as an Independent Legal Advisor (ILA) representing clients in internal investigations and compulsory interviews with the authorities, and representing clients in interviews under caution.

Alongside her fraud and investigations practice, Caroline has public law experience; she represented a number of military witnesses before the Baha Mousa Public Inquiry, and advised in connection with the Independent Inquiry into Child Sexual Abuse, led by Professor Alexis Jay.

Caroline was named in Global Investigation Review’s Top 100 Women in Investigations survey 2018, a survey profiling one hundred investigations specialists from around the world. She co-author’s the chapter on witness interviews (UK perspective) for GIR’s The Practitioners Guide to Global Investigations, and sits on the Executive Committee of the Fraud Lawyers Association.

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