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Regulatory & Professional Conduct
Our regulatory lawyers look after your professional and business reputation when it matters most.
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Our regulatory and professional conduct team is made up of specialist lawyers with decades of experience across a wide range of disciplines.
We have a strong track record of helping individuals and businesses to navigate the complexities of ever-evolving regulatory landscapes.
Working with us will help to minimise the impact of any investigations, enforcement actions and financial and reputational exposure.
We also help with risk management — proactively identifying any areas that may need improvement and providing practical steps to take remedial action.
In the event that something goes wrong, we’re on-hand to provide bespoke and straightforward advice. We’ll guide you through the best response to any regulatory investigation, prosecution or enforcement, while preserving your professional, business and personal reputation.
Guiding you through complex regulatory landscapes
You may need advice on which regulations or laws apply to you or your business, how to discharge and comply with your personal duties and obligations, any liabilities that may arise or how to remedy and mitigate circumstances when things go wrong.
Our regulatory, compliance and professional conduct solicitors draw on decades of experience to offer specialist advice and consultancy services and provide a comprehensive, robust approach to safeguard you, your business and your people.
Whichever regulator affects your business — whether it’s the Health and Safety Executive, Medicines and Healthcare products Regulatory Agency, Environment Agency, Care Quality Commission, Trading Standards, a local authority or any other — we bring a deep understanding of how they and their processes work. The same goes for individual regulators like the General Medical Council, General Dental Council, NHS England and the Solicitors Regulation Authority (find out more on our professional conduct page).
Our experience tells us that every client and case is unique. That’s why we always deliver tailored, practical and sector-specific advice, with excellent service.
Experts in regulatory law
A finalist at the Yorkshire Legal Awards 2023, our team can guide you and your business through any regulatory area. We’re experienced across all business sectors and regulators, providing advice to clients of all sizes and types.
One of the largest in the North, our integrated team is headed up by Partner Lachlan Nisbet. An ‘excellent communicator’ who ‘leaves no stone unturned’ according to The Legal 500, Lachlan handles cases concerning health and safety, public and administrative, criminal and disciplinary law, along with regulatory compliance, white collar crime and trading standards matters. He’s also one of the UK’s pre-eminent firearms and field sport lawyers.
Lachlan is supported by fellow Partner Claire Burrows — a ‘Next Generation Partner’ in The Legal 500 and specialist regulatory compliance lawyer with expertise in health and safety, environmental, food safety, product safety, medical device regulation and coronial law. Claire is also an expert when it comes to crisis management and complex regulatory investigations.
Legal Director Deepika Raino leads our professional conduct team and is highly experienced in case presenting and defending fitness to practise cases as well as discipline and misconduct investigations. She acts for a range of professional clients and organisations, offering support in safeguarding and internal investigations.
Our regulatory legal expertise
We provide support on the full range of criminal issues, including business and financial crime, trading standards offences and firearms law.
The UK’s foremost specialist lawyers in firearms, shooting and field-sports law.
Safeguard your people and business with proactive risk management.
Multidisciplinary legal support to help guide your journey to market.
Specialist lawyers with unrivalled expertise in case presenting and defending regulated professionals.
We've represented organisations and individuals throughout the most significant public inquiries of recent decades.
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