Rebecca Chalkley, KC
Rebecca’s practice is cross-border and cross-discipline. She specialises in all areas of corporate crime and corporate wrongdoing and financial, environmental, and professional regulation. She both defends and prosecutes.
The Directories list her as a leader in financial crime, business & regulatory crime (including global investigations), fraud and Environmental Regulation. She is “spotlighted” for Private Prosecutions.
She advises and acts on behalf of corporates, high net worth individuals, in-house and City solicitors in areas such as compliance, Insolvency, corporate governance, business investigations, dispute resolution, fraud, restraint, Freezing Orders, Norwich Pharmacal Orders, Deferred Prosecution Agreements, and private prosecutions.
She is described in the directories as “the Queen of Disclosure”. In July 2022 she co-authored with Brian Altman KC the SFO’s independent review into the collapse of the R V Woods and Marshall trial (SERCO), The Altman Review. She has vast experience with regards to Legal Professional Privilege (LPP) and regularly advises on such matters.
She was until her appointment as KC, Standing Counsel to the Department for Business and the Insolvency Service and advised that department on their most complicated issues of policy and their prosecutions. She has a vast experience of matters relating to Insolvency and Bankruptcy, as well as Director’s Disqualification and matters under the Companies Act. She regularly advises and acts for individuals and companies in such matters.
Rebecca was The Times Lawyer of the week in April 2022 for her successful prosecution of the former tennis player Boris Becker.
Rebecca was in The Lawyer Hot 100 List (2023).