Rebecca Chalkley KC

Rebecca’s practice is cross-border and cross-discipline. She specialises in all areas of commercial and financial crime, regulation (professional, financial & environmental), health & safety and sports & global investigations.

She advises and acts on behalf of corporates, high net worth individuals, in-house and City solicitors in areas such as compliance, Insolvency, corporate governance, business investigations, dispute resolution, fraud, restraint, Freezing Orders, Norwich Pharmacal Orders, Deferred Prosecution Agreements, and private prosecutions. 

She is described in the directories as “the Queen of Disclosure”. In July 2022 she co-authored with Brian Altman KC the SFO’s independent review into the collapse of the R V Woods and Marshall trial (SERCO), The Altman Review. She has vast experience with regards to Legal Professional Privilege (LPP) and regularly advises on such matters. 

She was until her appointment as KC, Standing Counsel to the Department for Business and the Insolvency Service and advised that department on their most complicated issues of policy and their prosecutions. She has a vast experience of matters relating to Insolvency and Bankruptcy, as well as Director’s Disqualification and matters under the Companies Act. She regularly advises and acts for individuals and companies in such matters.

She is instructed in regulatory and quasi-criminal matters on cases involving breaches of Regulatory & Professional Discipline and on behalf of and against regulatory bodies. This includes the Health and Safety Executive, the Environment Agency, the Financial Conduct Authority, the General Medical Council, and the General Optical Council.

She advises on and acts  in Extradition cases. This includes cases involving the USA, the Russian Federation and Bermuda