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Calum Burnett

Partner

London

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Calum Burnett

Partner

London

Calum heads the UK Litigation & Investigations Group at Allen & Overy. He specialises in contentious regulatory work and has very extensive experience of acting for financial institutions in high profile, complex regulatory investigations, both domestically and cross-border. He also has experience of acting for institutions in Serious Fraud Office investigations.

Calum has advised major financial institutions across a very broad range of regulatory issues, including market abuse and insider dealing, AML and anti-bribery and corruption, mis-selling, fraud, cyber security breaches, operational resilience, non-financial misconduct and other cultural issues, regulatory reporting and a broad range of other types of systems and controls failings. He also represents senior individuals in regulatory investigations.

Calum has advised extensively on the UK Senior Managers and Certification regime and on related FCA and PRA Code of Conduct and fitness and propriety issues.

Legal directories recognise Calum as a leading individual for contentious regulatory matters. Chambers UK 2022 states that ""he's incredibly smart and will give you first-rate work product"". Calum is ""very positive, helpful, responsive and easy to deal with."" (Chambers UK 2023)

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Blog Post: 16 August 2023

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London

One Bishops Square
London
E1 6AD

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Qualifications

Professional

Admitted as solicitor, England and Wales, 1992

Academic

LLB, Law University of Reading, 1989