Rod Fletcher to join Herbert Smith Freehills Corporate Crime team

Rod Fletcher, one of the UK's leading business crime and investigations specialists, is to join the Herbert Smith Freehills top-ranked corporate crime and investigations team in London in April 2013.    

In conjunction with Graham More, Rod will lead the team, which is part of the firm's global corporate crime practice, working very closely with Susannah Cogman and Dan Hudson.  The team in London forms part of a broader group that also covers contentious financial services regulatory, banking litigation and public law - areas of expertise that the firm has brought together into a unified offering to clients.

Herbert Smith Freehills has a long-standing dedicated corporate crime practice.  Given the implementation and increased enforcement in recent years of anti-corruption legislation, such as the Bribery Act and the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act (FCPA), and a regulatory focus on financial crime compliance, the practice has grown rapidly across the world.  In 2011, Herbert Smith Freehills appointed Kyle Wombolt, a US and Hong Kong qualified lawyer with extensive FCPA experience, to head up its Asia investigations practice.  It is shortly to establish an on-the-ground US investigations practice, following the opening of its New York office in September 2012.  Other offices in the international network also offer specialist white collar crime and corruption expertise.

Rod joins Herbert Smith Freehills from Russell Jones and Walker where he was head of Business Crime and Regulation.  He has a range of experience advising corporates and individuals and has been consistently ranked in the legal directories for his expertise in corporate / white-collar crime, fraud and regulatory investigations.  In the Chambers UK 2012 directory he is ranked as a star individual in the 'Fraud: Criminal: UK-Wide' category.  Rod is also a founding member of the Association of Regulatory and Disciplinary Lawyers.