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Jennifer Harper

Jennifer Harper is a Partner at Howard Kennedy. She is an experienced criminal lawyer, specialising in financial crime and regulatory investigations, including those conducted by the Serious Fraud Office, Crown Prosecution Service, Trading Standards, and local authorities. Jennifer defends clients in fraud and other white-collar crime investigations. She advises clients at all stages of the investigation, providing straightforward, strategic advice for both corporate and individual clients. She has experience of advising clients in responding to production orders, Section 2 Notices issued by the Serious Fraud Office (SFO), the submission of Suspicious Activity Reports (SARs) to the National Crime Agency (NCA), and cash forfeiture proceedings. Jennifer has experience of advising corporate clients in relation to private prosecutions, having both defended and prosecuted complex, multi-jurisdictional, frauds and other offences. She also advises corporate clients on regulatory investigations involving local authorities, Trading Standards, the Advertising Standards Agency, the Driver and Vehicle Standards Agency, and the Food Standards Agency. Jennifer undertakes defence work on behalf of solicitors' firms and individual solicitors facing investigation by the SRA. She represents high-net-worth individuals in general crime matters concerning serious allegations of sexual and physical assault. Jennifer is a member of the Private Prosecutors' Association, Young Fraud Lawyers Association and Female Fraud Forum. · Howard Kennedy LLP

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About

Jennifer Harper is a Partner at Howard Kennedy and an experienced criminal lawyer specialising in financial crime, regulatory investigations and white‑collar crime. She advises and defends corporate and individual clients at all stages of investigations — including responses to production orders and SFO Section 2 notices, SAR submissions to the NCA, cash forfeiture proceedings, private prosecutions and SRA matters — and represents high‑net‑worth individuals in serious sexual and physical assault cases; she is a member of the Private Prosecutors' Association, Young Fraud Lawyers Association and Female Fraud Forum.

Practice areas

Financial CrimeWhite-Collar CrimeRegulatory InvestigationsCriminal DefencePrivate ProsecutionsProfessional Discipline

Office

England

Howard Kennedy LLP · Jennifer Harper is a Partner at Howard Kennedy. She is an experienced criminal lawyer, specialising in financial crime and regulatory investigations, including those conducted by the Serious Fraud Office, Crown Prosecution Service, Trading Standards, and local authorities. Jennifer defends clients in fraud and other white-collar crime investigations. She advises clients at all stages of the investigation, providing straightforward, strategic advice for both corporate and individual clients. She has experience of advising clients in responding to production orders, Section 2 Notices issued by the Serious Fraud Office (SFO), the submission of Suspicious Activity Reports (SARs) to the National Crime Agency (NCA), and cash forfeiture proceedings. Jennifer has experience of advising corporate clients in relation to private prosecutions, having both defended and prosecuted complex, multi-jurisdictional, frauds and other offences. She also advises corporate clients on regulatory investigations involving local authorities, Trading Standards, the Advertising Standards Agency, the Driver and Vehicle Standards Agency, and the Food Standards Agency. Jennifer undertakes defence work on behalf of solicitors' firms and individual solicitors facing investigation by the SRA. She represents high-net-worth individuals in general crime matters concerning serious allegations of sexual and physical assault. Jennifer is a member of the Private Prosecutors' Association, Young Fraud Lawyers Association and Female Fraud Forum.

England

Expertise

SFO investigationsResponses to production orders and SFO Section 2 noticesSuspicious Activity Reports (SARs) to the NCACash forfeiture proceedingsPrivate prosecutionsRegulatory investigations (Trading Standards, local authorities, ASA, DVSA, FSA)Solicitors' disciplinary defence (SRA)Defence and prosecution of complex multi‑jurisdictional frauds