Bribery and Corruption

Investigations, White Collar, and Fraud

Our global investigations team blends deep regulatory insight with practical experience to guide you through complex, sensitive matters—efficiently, discreetly, and aligned with your goals.

We support clients facing regulatory scrutiny, fraud, bribery, corruption, sanctions breaches, money laundering, whistle-blower complaints, and dawn raids, offering strategic advice to safeguard your business and reputation.

Our team includes former prosecutors, providing unique insight into enforcement strategy, criminal liability, regulatory breaches, and asset recovery. We advise executive boards and help design compliance programs aligned with global standards.

Local issues can escalate quickly. We manage multi-jurisdictional investigations and help you anticipate and respond to international risks, navigating the intersection of global law, regulation, and local enforcement.

Financial Crime

Financial crime risks – from money laundering and sanctions breaches to fraud, bribery, and corruption – are increasingly at the top of regulator and enforcement authority agendas. The consequences for companies can be severe, including financial penalties, criminal liability, loss of licenses, and reputational damage. Hogan Lovells combines deep sector knowledge, international reach, and first-hand regulatory experience to help clients prevent, detect, and respond to financial crime issues across jurisdictions.

Our lawyers have guided multinational banks, global corporates, fintech innovators, and other regulated entities through high-stakes matters, including internal investigations, cross-border regulatory inquiries, and large-scale compliance remediation projects. We understand the complex requirements of anti-money laundering regimes and related financial crime laws, and we know how regulators and prosecutors approach enforcement.

Anti-Bribery and Corruption Compliance and Due Diligence

Anti-bribery and corruption laws are now enforced globally, with regulators coordinating across borders and raising expectations of companies. Businesses are facing closer scrutiny not only under the U.S. Foreign Corrupt Practices Act (FCPA) and UK Bribery Act, but also under newer and more assertive regimes in EMEA. Enforcement activity is expanding, expectations are rising, and you need to show that your company’s programmes and due diligence can withstand global review.

Investigations can be triggered by acquisitions, third-party dealings or operational weaknesses, and lead to significant fines, criminal liability, and reputational harm.

Whether as part of the ordinary course of business, and in M&A transaction or otherwise, we help you design, test and enhance compliance frameworks that are proportionate, practical and credible with regulators.

Global Asset Recovery

We help you find and recover money. From asset freezing to judgment enforcement, our experienced team guides you through complex administrative, legislative, and judicial processes. With over 30 years of experience, we’ve handled some of the most high-profile cases globally.

Recognised as one of the world’s leading disputes practices, we collaborate closely with top-ranked litigation, arbitration, investigations, white collar, insolvency, and banking litigation teams to protect your interests worldwide. Our cross-border expertise spans jurisdictions including the British Virgin Islands, the Bahamas, Eastern Europe, Asia, and Africa.

We deliver results in even the most challenging scenarios, regularly acting for liquidators, trustees, funders, investors, and other claimants in major asset recovery and judgment enforcement matters.

False Claims Act and Qui Tam

Our False Claims Act (FCA) team is one of the most experienced and deeply resourced in the United States and trusted by our clients to handle the highest stakes matters. We deploy a multidisciplinary bench of litigators, former U.S. Department of Justice prosecutors and trial attorneys, and regulatory lawyers to represent corporations, executives, compliance leaders, and witnesses in the most significant FCA investigations and enforcement actions nationwide.

Investigations and litigation under the federal and state FCAs are among the most complex and high-stakes disputes faced by companies and individuals in heavily regulated industries. Financial exposure can be enormous, including treble damages, civil penalties, and the risk of reputational harm.

Successfully navigating these matters requires deep knowledge of the regulatory frameworks driving FCA risk, insight into government strategy, and the ability to act decisively at every stage. This combination of high-stakes litigation strength and industry insight underpins our FCA practice. From the earliest stages of an internal inquiry through government investigations, settlement negotiations, and trial, we deliver strategic, coordinated defense at every step.