Jack Davies

Partner Litigation
Golden Flag International Law Firm

Overview

Jack Davies is a partner in Golden Flag’s Government, Regulatory & Internal Investigations Practice Group, based in London. Jack focuses his practice on corporate and financial crime matters, including those relating to bribery and corruption, money laundering, financial and trade sanctions and fraud. In particular, Jack regularly advises on complex investigations and issues with respect to compliance with the UK sanctions and anti-money laundering regulatory regimes. Jack also advises on workplace compliance and non-financial misconduct investigations. 

Jack has significant experience advising public and private multinational corporations with respect to complex internal, governmental and regulatory investigations (including those conducted by the UK Serious Fraud Office (SFO), the UK Financial Conduct Authority (FCA), the Office of Financial Sanctions Implementation (OFSI) and HM Revenue & Customs (HMRC)).

More broadly, Jack frequently counsels clients on highly sensitive legal and reputational issues. This includes advising on designing, implementing and assessing compliance programmes, as well as providing day to day advice on a broad range of AML, ABC, sanctions and fraud risk governance and compliance matters.

Jack also routinely represents senior individuals and compliance professionals who are facing investigation by government agencies such as the SFO and FCA.

Jack’s team has been recognised as “among the very best of the best”, a “very well drilled team” with “excellent depth of talent” and as having “outstanding experience and attention to detail.” They are noted as “think[ing] of everything, in depth, many moves ahead of the opposition. If you want to win, this is the team to hire”, and “excellent hard working team with years of white collar expertise.”

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Thought Leadership

Publications

“UK’s Updated National Security Review Definitions Will Ease Compliance Challenges,” Law360 (March 2021)

“Arbitration And Insolvency – Still Two ‘Near Polar Extremes’?”, Corporate Disputes Magazine, October 2017 (Co-author Chiraag Shah)

Credentials

Admissions & Qualifications

  • 2018, Admitted to practice as a Solicitor of England and Wales

Education

  • University of Law, LondonLL.M.Professional Legal Practice, with Distinction2016
  • Jesus College, University of CambridgeM.Phil., Economic and Social History2014
  • Chartered Institute for Securities & InvestmentDiploma in Investment Compliance2012
  • University College LondonLL.B., Law with German LawHons.2011