Susannah Cogman

Practice Areas

Financial Services Regulatory, Corporate Crime and Investigations, Sanctions, Fraud and White Collar Crime and Dispute Resolution

Career

Susannah advises financial institutions, corporates and professional services firms in connection with anti-corruption, financial sanctions, anti-money laundering, insider dealing/market abuse and fraud issues, both contentious and non-contentious. She was appointed as one of the UK's first anti-corruption monitors for the purposes of a company's settlement with the World Bank and Serious Fraud Office.

Susannah's advice covers a spectrum of work including: technical financial crime compliance advisory work, assisting clients to develop appropriate risk-based financial crime compliance policies and procedures, advising on financial crime risk and diligence in transactional matters, conducting internal investigations for clients, and supporting clients as suspects or witnesses in external investigations. In particular, she frequently represents clients in Serious Fraud Office and Financial Conduct Authority investigations. She also represents clients in relation to regulatory and criminal mutual legal assistance and extradition matters.

Susannah is a member of the Law Society’s Money Laundering Taskforce and the City of London Law Society Corporate Crime and Corruption Committee. She is a consultant editor of the Lloyds Law Reports: Financial Crime series.

Personal

Susannah is a partner at Herbert Smith Freehills, specialising in financial crime and related regulatory work.