Regulatory & Compliance

We advise professionals charged with criminal offences, whilst simultaneously facing professional disciplinary proceedings, to ensure the best possible outcome, which often means successfully defending allegations of criminal misconduct.

We work with you to develop and implement programs that align with your industry’s specific regulations. Whatever your sector, we ensure your business meets all legal standards.

Key to protecting your business is the early identification and mitigation of regulatory risks. Our team provides risk assessments, audits, and strategic advice which will help you to address potential issues before they impact on your finances.

We provide robust representation, including at any formal interviews or requests for evidence from regulators, and guide you through investigation processes, responding to regulators as required on your behalf. Our primary aim is to protect your operations and safeguard your reputation.

We are market leaders in the field of Health and Safety advice. We can provide support to businesses from meeting your training needs, to representation in court. Our dedicated team can be on hand to advice in the aftermath of an incident on site, through an investigation and providing representation for appeals of enforcement notices and in any prosecution that follows.

We will help ensure your business is fully compliant with GDPR and other data privacy laws. From data breach responses to the drafting of privacy policies, we protect your company from fines and reputational damage.

To avoid penalties, it is essential to ensure corporate governance structures comply with regulatory requirements. We will help you to achieve transparency and compliance with your reporting obligations.

Our team is regularly instructed to provide advice and support in the minutes or hours after a major incident. Our team can advise you on scene management, liaising with Police Scotland or other investigatory bodies, and protecting your internal investigation, where possible.

We have experience of assisting a range of professionals before their regulatory bodies. We represent, doctors, dentists, sportspeople and students who are facing fitness to practise proceedings whilst at University. We fully understand the way in which regulators view professionals and misconduct, so can guide our clients through the various processes with sensitivity.

We can advise on large scale construction projects where health and safety, environmental and compliance issues often arise.

We are experienced in providing advice to clients in the aftermath of incidents and throughout regulatory investigations to manage any potential damage to reputation. Our Regulatory and Compliance team works alongside our Reputation Management colleagues to make best use of media contacts to manage and respond to any emerging risk of negative publicity.