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Herbert Smith Freehills has contributed a chapter to the first edition of the Global Investigations Review's Guide to Anti-Money Laundering: Representing financial institutions in global multi-agency AML investigations.

In this chapter, we highlight the issues that may occur throughout multi-jurisdictional anti-money laundering investigations into financial institutions, which present numerous challenges and require careful management of the risks that arise.  These include issues arising from, among others, self-reporting of breaches, reporting of suspicious transactions, preserving and retrieving documents, cross-border transfer of documents and data, document review, production of documents to multiple regulators, secrecy obligations and prohibition against tipping off, as well as cooperation and/or settlement with multiple regulators.  The chapter ends with an overview of the key questions that need to be asked at the outset of and throughout an investigation.

If you have any questions regarding any aspect of this chapter, please do not hesitate to reach out to one of us (contact details listed below) or your regular Herbert Smith Freehills contact.

We wish to thank our colleagues, Pamela Kiesselbach, Valerie Tao, Elizabeth Head, Rémi Jouaneton, Emily Kemp, Martin Le Touzé, Janine Mallis, César Michel and Rania Mostafa for their contributions to this chapter.

 

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Kyle Wombolt

Partner, Global Head - Corporate Crime and Investigations, Hong Kong

Kyle Wombolt
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Susannah Cogman

Partner, London

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Jonathan Mattout

Partner, Deputy Global Head - Corporate Crime and Investigations, and Regional Head of Practice (EMEA), Paris

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Stuart Paterson

Managing Partner, Middle East and Head of Middle East Dispute Resolution, Dubai

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Kyle Wombolt photo

Kyle Wombolt

Partner, Global Head - Corporate Crime and Investigations, Hong Kong

Kyle Wombolt
Susannah Cogman photo

Susannah Cogman

Partner, London

Susannah Cogman
Jonathan Mattout photo

Jonathan Mattout

Partner, Deputy Global Head - Corporate Crime and Investigations, and Regional Head of Practice (EMEA), Paris

Jonathan Mattout
Stuart Paterson photo

Stuart Paterson

Managing Partner, Middle East and Head of Middle East Dispute Resolution, Dubai

Stuart Paterson
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