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Dawn raid response plan: procedures, team roles, employee guidance, and privilege protection during law enforcement or regulator searches

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1 Introduction

1.1

A dawn raid may take place at any company, whether large or small, so all organisations should remain alert to the chance that one could occur.

1.2 What is a dawn raid?

1.2.1

A dawn raid is an unannounced attendance by the police and/or investigators from another prosecuting authority to search premises and collect material where there is a suspicion that the business or a person connected with it has engaged in criminal conduct.

1.2.2

During such a visit, investigators may:

examine paper and digital records
review and remove documents, electronic data and devices, and
question staff

1.3 Who can carry out a dawn raid?

The range of prosecutors and regulators empowered to conduct dawn raids has grown in recent years. Law enforcement Agencies able to do so include (without limitation) the Serious Fraud Office, the financial conduct authority, the police, the Health and Safety Executive, the Competition and Markets Authority and HM Revenue and Customs.

1.4 Failure to co-operate with investigators

Failing to co-operate with investigators during a dawn raid can attract substantial sanctions and may amount to a criminal offence...

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Michael Potts

PCB Byrne

Michael is a specialist in the defence of corporate and financial crime and regulatory investigations and prosecutions. He has represented senior executives and other professionals in many high-profile domestic and international investigations and prosecutions conducted by the SFO, FCA, NCA and other prosecution/regulatory agencies.Michael regularly advises and represents senior financial services personnel facing FCA/PRA and other regulator investigations and disciplinary action. He also advises and represents high-net-worth individuals facing revenue investigations and potential prosecutions.Michael has also been extensively involved in advising clients facing financial and trade sanctions both domestically and globally with experience of sanctions regimes in a range of countries. His most recent experience includes representing high-net-worth individuals that are the subject of sanctions imposed by OFAC, OFSI and the Minister for External Relations and Financial Services (Jersey), including challenging the ‘designated’ status of a number of...

Ilana Baines

PCB Byrne

Ilana is an accomplished criminal litigation lawyer who has extensive experience defending in complex cases including bribery, corruption, money laundering, tax evasion, Account Freezing Orders, insider dealing, fraud by abuse of position, fraudulent selling and land banking.Ilana’s experience covers investigations and prosecutions brought by the Serious Fraud Office (SFO), Financial Conduct Authority (FCA), Crown Prosecution Service (CPS), HM Revenue and Customs (HMRC), The Royal Mail and National Trading Standards. She regularly advises professional clients on regulatory proceedings, including Solicitors Regulation Authority (SRA) investigations and interventions. Ilana also specialises in Restraint and Confiscation proceedings.Notable Cases:Operation Puffin: £8.7 million involving the supply of potatoes to Sainsbury’s.Operation Elveden: Represented a Sun journalist on charges of conspiracy to commit Misconduct in Public Office.Operation Cotton: FCA’s first prosecution of Land Banking, amounting to £4.3 million.SFO investigation into accounting practices at Tesco.SFO prosecution in respect of LIBOR...

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