Alison Geary
Partner, Mishcon de Reya LLP
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Alison Geary is a partner in the firm’s white-collar crime and investigations group. Her practice focuses on corporate crime involving fraud, bribery, corruption, market abuse, cartels and money laundering. She acts in UK Serious Fraud Office (SFO), UK Financial Conduct Authority and World Bank investigations. She has extensive experience in advising UK companies and individuals subject to investigation by international authorities, including the US Department of Justice, the European Commission and Brazil’s Administrative Council for Economic Defence.
Alison is recognised in The Legal 500, Who’s Who Legal: Investigations and Chambers and Partners, where she is described as ‘extremely capable, very well researched and very commercial with her advice’.
Alison acts for both individuals and corporations. She assists organisations in achieving negotiated settlements with the authorities and has represented individuals in many high-profile investigations. She has acted for high-profile individuals in the SFO’s investigations into foreign exchange benchmark manipulation, LIBOR manipulation and corruption in the mining industry and the aviation sector, as well as the Metropolitan Police investigation into phone hacking. Alison has extensive experience in conducting internal investigations, often spanning many jurisdictions. She also advises corporations being investigated by the World Bank Integrity Vice Presidency and other multilateral development banks.