Dec 22 2020
Corruption around the world in 2020
As the year draws to a close, we look back and reflect upon some of the key developments in cases of corruption around the world in 2020.
At the beginning of the year, the UK Serious Fraud Office…
Pam Shearing is a solicitor whose practice focuses on white-collar defence, global investigations, and corporate governance and compliance.
She has extensive experience of leading teams advising global companies and individuals on the full spectrum of corporate governance and financial regulation, including working with international corporations on multi-jurisdictional complex investigations; and advising on the implications of international anti-corruption legislation.
She has significant experience of reviewing, designing and implementing corporate governance and compliance programs, and providing workshops and training to senior compliance professionals, drawing upon both her experience of working in-house in the Legal and Compliance team of the Head Office of a FTSE 30 company, but also her years working in private practice. Pam also advises companies on the implications of the Modern Slavery Act and human rights legislation.
Pam has a unique combined background of both private practice and in-house experience. Prior to joining Fulcrum in 2017, she spent over ten years working in both private practice (both at a Magic Circle firm in their London and Brussels offices, and at a leading US law firm) and also in-house at the Head Office of a FTSE 30 leading company.
She has also been engaged throughout her legal career in related graduate academic studies, research, and teaching in international law. In 2016, she completed her PhD during which she spent a year as a Fulbright Scholar and Visiting Fellow at Harvard University. She has taught for several years at leading London universities and currently teaches undergraduates at King’s College London.
Pam advises and acts for multi-national clients and senior individuals across a wide range of white-collar crime and regulatory matters. She regularly leads teams providing advice relating to the implications of the UK Bribery Act 2010, the Criminal Finances Act 2017, money laundering, sanctions, and proceeds of crime.
She has also led teams acting as defence counsel for clients under investigation by government agencies or regulators.
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Since its implementation Pam has been advising and acting for multinational clients as well as senior individuals in respect of their obligations under the Bribery Act 2010.
She has extensive experience of providing advice on issues arising under the Bribery Act, the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act, the Proceeds of Crime Act; and the Criminal Finances Act, as well as assisting with the design, review and implementation of bespoke anti-bribery compliance and training programs.
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Pam advises across a broad range of investigations and contentious regulatory issues including compliance and risk management.
Significant recent experience includes advising an international company in relation to its obligations under the Criminal Finances Act.
Pam advises clients on extradition (including under the European Arrest Warrant) requests and INTERPOL Red Notices.
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Pam advises and represents companies and individuals across a spectrum of matters involving allegations of criminal fraud, including complex fraud, false accounting, and offences under the Fraud Act. She recently conducted an internal investigation for a client as part of the DoJ’s investigation into Huawei, which involved a number of allegations of serious fraud.
Pam advises regulated and non-regulated clients on all aspects of anti-money laundering legislation.
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Pam advises multinational clients on EU and UK sanctions, including providing advice in relation to specific transactions, designing and implementing compliance programmes, conducting internal investigations, and managing relationships with regulators.
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Pam conducts investigations and provides advice in relation to the offence of failing to prevent the facilitation of tax evasion.
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Pam advises multinational clients on conducting investigations, including internal and remote investigations, and also as part of complex and high-profile external investigations and prosecutions across a wide range of sectors.
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Pam has conducted remote investigations (either in whole or in part) throughout her career and has also written and delivered training on the topic.
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Pam has led teams representing and defending multinational corporate clients as well as senior individuals in relation to investigations undertaken by a number of government agencies and regulators including the SFO, DoJ, and the FCA.
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Pam advises multinational clients on the design and implementation of corporate governance and compliance programs, including providing workshops and training to compliance teams, senior professionals, and business leaders, drawing upon both her experience of working in-house in a FTSE 30 global company, but also her years working in private practice.
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Pam is experienced in a broad range of commercial litigation advising corporates and banks on a broad range of contentious matters. She has led teams representing private clients and states across multiple jurisdictions in arbitrations governed by various substantive laws and conducted under the rules of the ICC, LCIA, ICSID, and UNCITRAL. Many of these disputes have contained allegations of fraud, money laundering, tax evasion, or other criminality. She has also advised on a broad range of international law issues.
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Pam has represented and acted for a number of large, global mining companies, as well as senior mining executives on a wide variety of matters ranging from SFO investigations into bribery and corruption, internal investigations, sanctions advice, and arbitration.
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Pam has acted for some of the world’s largest oil companies as well as States in relation to various matters in the oil and gas sector including anti-corruption due diligence and investor-state arbitration.
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Pam has significant experience in the defence and aviation sector having spent time working in-house within the Legal and Compliance team of an international defence and aviation company. She has also advised aviation companies in relation to commercial disputes during her time in private practice.
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Pam has significant experience in the extractives sector, having represented mining and oil and gas companies, as well as senior executives, in relation to some of the largest SFO investigations in that sector, including ENRC and Rio Tinto.
She also regularly advises clients on compliance issues, including in relation to money laundering, bribery and corruption, and sanctions.
Pam also has experience in representing extractives companies in arbitration.
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