Calum Burnett
Partner
London
Calum Burnett
Partner
London
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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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Litigation, Arbitration and Investigations
Investigations, Enforcement and Business Crime
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Professional
Academic
Related articles
Blog Post: 16 August 2023
The Upper Tribunal (Tax and Chancery Chamber) (Tribunal) has held that a third party reference of a Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) decision notice was not impacted by the FCA issuing a final…
Blog Post: 29 June 2023
UK Upper Tribunal overrules FCA finding that Julius Baer employees lacked integrity
Blog Post: 23 March 2023
Expertise
Practices
Litigation, Arbitration and Investigations
Investigations, Enforcement and Business Crime
Sectors
Qualifications
Professional
Academic
