Calum D Burnett
UK Guide 2025
Band 1 : Financial Services: Contentious Regulatory (Corporates)
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About
Provided by Calum D Burnett
Practice Areas
Calum heads the UK Litigation & Investigations Group at A&O Shearman.
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 2024 states that “Calum is the best regulatory lawyer I have dealt with in the City; his advice is clear and succinct and his judgement is spot on. He is a trusted adviser." He has “a lot of experience and industry knowledge, and is able to smoothly run complex and large investigations".
Chambers Review
UK
Calum Burnett is best known for representing clients in high-stakes FCA enforcement proceedings, including those related to the SMCR.
Strengths
Provided by Chambers
"Calum is strong in complex, high-value and time-pressured matters. He is uber-responsive and is always completely on top of the detail. He is an extraordinarily good lawyer."
"Calum is the go-to person for anything of material significance in the contentious regulatory sphere. His depth and breadth of expertise, and his management ability outline him as a key partner."
"Calum is really incredible and stands out as being super-smart."
"Calum is strong in complex, high-value and time-pressured matters. He is uber-responsive and is always completely on top of the detail. He is an extraordinarily good lawyer."
"Calum is the go-to person for anything of material significance in the contentious regulatory sphere. His depth and breadth of expertise, and his management ability outline him as a key partner."
"Calum is really incredible and stands out as being super-smart."