Regulatory Disputes Associate

The role

Osborne Clarke is seeking a Regulatory Disputes Associate to join their Litigation and Regulatory practice in Bristol. This role will focus on regulatory investigations, enforcement, and compliance, advising leading businesses on complex, high-impact matters.

What you'll do

• Play a key role in working on health and safety advice, investigations, corporate due diligence and inquests
• Support on broader regulatory investigations and compliance work
• Advise on non-contentious compliance frameworks (including Anti-Bribery & Corruption (ABC), Failure to Prevent Fraud (FTPF), Modern Slavery)
• Guide clients through internal investigations, inquiries, enforcement, and related contentious processes
• Advise on preventative compliance
• Advise on internal and external investigations
• Advise on engagement with regulators
• Represent clients in enforcement and related proceedings
• Provide non-contentious advisory support to clients across a range of health and safety, building safety and fire safety topics
• Provide training and policy support on health and safety topics
• Provide crisis/ contentious support following incidents or regulatory investigations
• Conduct internal investigations
• Engage with regulators
• Manage disclosure requests
• Conduct interviews under caution
• Handle prosecutions and related court hearings
• Provide due diligence support
• Deal with inquests
• Provide non core participant support in inquiries
• Advise on policies, procedures and risk assessments
• Work on related investigations (advising on investigation strategy, responding to regulatory information requests, preparing clients and witnesses for interviews, managing document reviews and disclosure, and coordinating with technical experts and in-house teams)
• Work with a partner and trainee on a week-long inquest for a production company
• Work with an Associate Director and a trainee on a complex inquest and related investigation/ risk advice for a private healthcare services client
• Lead on corporate due diligence reports
• Draft witness evidence on a regulatory challenge as part of a statutory appeal
• Support more senior colleagues in internal investigation interviews and associated work on redactions and disclosure
• Provide building safety compliance advice
• Look for opportunities to secure Building Safety Regulator enforcement instructions
• Support more senior colleagues to prepare multi-jurisdictional anti-bribery and fraud risk assessments
• Assist clients in implementing changes to mitigate risks
• Support more senior colleagues to provide training to clients on the new Terrorism (Protection of Premises) Act and other broader Directors Duties advice
• Provide strategic multi-jurisdictional compliance advice for an international retail client
• Collate advice from other jurisdictions
• Draft advice in relation to overall strategy and specific risks
• Work with clients in key regulated sectors

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