Financial Crime or White Collar Crime

The term White collar crime refers to financially motivated, nonviolent or non-directly violent crime committed by individuals, businesses and government professionals to obtain or avoid losing money or to gain a personal or business advantage.

Financial crime or White collar usually find its genesis in antibribery and corruption laws, corporate and accounting fraud, insider trading, data privacy, protection and security, global statutes such as FCPA, UKBA, corporate compliance, and money laundering. We, at Palmer Morgan, have extensive experience in representing clients in white collar crime matters both at a preventative and prosecution stages.

Our white collar crimes practice division advises numerous domestic and international clients. We help them conduct internal audits and create appropriate risk mitigation strategies, defense in investigations, criminal trials and appellate proceedings before courts, corporate investigations and general advisory in relation to wrongdoings attributed to promoters and other employees, proceedings to protect personal liberty, blacklisting proceedings and cancellation of contracts.