2015 Legal Awards

Legal Awards 2015 M&A awards 113 LEGAL awards ~ Best Regulatory & Compliance Team - UK Walker Morris LLP is a successful, highly regarded law firm who support their national and international clients with commercially focused legal advice. Andrew Northage talks us through the firm’s award winning regulatory and com- pliance team and provides a unique insight into their work. Walker Morris LLP is uniquely recognised for its strong multi-disciplinary teamwork and straightforward advice. The firm and our lawyers are recognised as leaders in their fields, with almost 90% of our partners recognised in Chambers and Legal 500 for their expertise. The Regulatory & Compliance Team at Walker Morris advises and represents an enviable list of UK and international clients in connection with a wide range of contentious and non-contentious regulatory matters in all aspects of financial services regulation, as well as fraud, bribery, proceeds of crime, health and safety, inquests and information law. We have particular expertise in relation to complex corporate transactions, regulatory investigations and criminal and regulatory proceedings brought by the authorities. Members of the Walker Morris Regulatory & Compliance Team have experience of working for the Serious Fraud Office, the Financial Services Authority (as it then was), in-house and in private practice, which sets the team apart from our competitors and gives it valuable insight into the regulators’ mind set and our clients’ needs. In addition, because we understand that good corporate governance requires the effective management of regulatory risks from board level down, we understand the need for keeping abreast of legislative change and ensuring all relevant compliance policies and practices, reinforced by comprehensive training, are kept up to date. As such we work hard to understand every aspect of our clients’ businesses so that we can properly under- stand both the operation and culture, to help us provide advice that meets the client’s commercial imperatives and deliver it in a manner that is most effective and useful for the particular client. Looking to the future we are focused on maintaining and developing a centre of excellence, which delivers a consistent and co-ordinated service to our clients. Our single-site strategy experience has shown us that this engenders close relationships and good communication among our lawyers for the benefit of our clients, whilst simultaneously allowing us to operate on a national scale. Company: Walker Morris LLP Name: Andrew Northage Email: [email protected] Web Address: www.walkermorris.co.uk Address: Kings Court, 12 King Street, Leeds LS1 2HL Telephone: +44 (0) 113 283 2500 Walker Morris