Claire Cross

Claire Cross is a Partner, specialising in all areas of white collar fraud. Claire has considerable and proven experience in complex FCA and CMA regulatory investigations, insider dealing, market manipulation and cartel cases, misleading statements and corruption. Recent work includes providing legal support to FCA investigation teams, prosecuting multi-handed criminal insider dealing and misleading statement cases, policy work on issues relating to Anti-Money Laundering Regulations, Corporate Liability, Disclosure, and Victims Rights, developing intelligence lead cases to capture Competition Act breaches and Enterprise Act offences, conducting an independent review of the proposed prosecution of a large multi-handed criminal cartel and acting as lead lawyer in numerous cases involving insider dealing, market abuse, breaches of Disclosure and Transparency Rules, Listing Principles, and SYSC, APER and FIT issues. Prior to joining Corker Binning, Claire acted as a Senior Lawyer at the Financial Conduct Authority, in the Criminal Prosecution Team. From October 2015 to July 2016, she also acted as the Assistant Director in the Cartels and Criminal Group for the Competition and Markets Authority. · Corker Binning

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Claire Cross is a Partner at Corker Binning specialising in all areas of white-collar fraud, with substantial experience in complex FCA and CMA regulatory investigations, insider dealing, market manipulation, cartel cases, misleading statements and corruption. She previously served as a Senior Lawyer in the Financial Conduct Authority’s Criminal Prosecution Team and as Assistant Director in the Cartels and Criminal Group at the Competition and Markets Authority (Oct 2015–July 2016), and earlier prosecuted serious and large-scale fraud at SOCA/RCPO/Inland Revenue.

Practice areas

White Collar CrimeRegulatory InvestigationsCompetition / AntitrustFinancial Services RegulationFraudCorporate Crime

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England

Corker Binning · Claire Cross is a Partner, specialising in all areas of white collar fraud. Claire has considerable and proven experience in complex FCA and CMA regulatory investigations, insider dealing, market manipulation and cartel cases, misleading statements and corruption. Recent work includes providing legal support to FCA investigation teams, prosecuting multi-handed criminal insider dealing and misleading statement cases, policy work on issues relating to Anti-Money Laundering Regulations, Corporate Liability, Disclosure, and Victims Rights, developing intelligence lead cases to capture Competition Act breaches and Enterprise Act offences, conducting an independent review of the proposed prosecution of a large multi-handed criminal cartel and acting as lead lawyer in numerous cases involving insider dealing, market abuse, breaches of Disclosure and Transparency Rules, Listing Principles, and SYSC, APER and FIT issues. Prior to joining Corker Binning, Claire acted as a Senior Lawyer at the Financial Conduct Authority, in the Criminal Prosecution Team. From October 2015 to July 2016, she also acted as the Assistant Director in the Cartels and Criminal Group for the Competition and Markets Authority.

England

Expertise

Insider Dealing & Market AbuseCartels / Competition EnforcementAnti‑Money Laundering PolicyCorporate LiabilityDisclosure & Transparency RulesListing Principles & Regulatory Conduct (SYSC, APER, FIT)Enterprise Act OffencesPolicy and Prosecution Strategy

Admissions

Member, Inner Temple
Member, American Bar Association
Member, Fraud Lawyers Association
Member, Financial Services Lawyers Association
Member, Criminal Bar Association