Regulatory & Business Defence Associate

at  Gateley

DIVERSITY, INCLUSION AND WELL BEING

Diversity, inclusion and well-being is an important part of Gateley’s culture and values. We recruit talented people from a diverse range of backgrounds and cultures, providing equal opportunities for all to join our team regardless of age, sex, race, sexual orientation, disability, or culture.
We create an exciting and rewarding place to work that aims to fulfil everyone’s potential and together to achieve personal and business goals. We offer flexible working patterns to help our staff achieve a good work/ life balance and we encourage candidates seeking flexibility in their next role to apply for any of our vacancies.
We are proud to have been recognised by The Law Society as gold standard for our Diversity and Inclusion Charter and to be Stonewall Diversity Champions.

THE ROLE

Our business is ambitious for success, and we are looking to recruit a solicitor or associate to join Gateley who are excited by the opportunity to grow the business and to help manage our valued client base.
To help us achieve this we are looking to appoint an experienced solicitor who is currently operating at solicitor or associate level. You will join our expanding and successful regulatory and business defence team, based in our Leeds office. We are keen to speak with candidates who have experience within criminal law and wish to work on the regulatory side.

As a solicitor or associate within the team you will have the opportunity to assist and advise on the following full range of regulatory & business defence scenarios for national clients. These will include (but are not limited to):

• Police & HSE investigations including fatal accidents (corporate manslaughter, gross negligence manslaughter, H&S prosecutions).
• Environment Agency and Water Utilities investigations into pollution incidents, watercourse pollution, unlawful waste transfer, breaches of trade effluent regime.
• Trading Standards investigations into consumer protection breaches (misleading labelling etc).
• EHO investigations into hygiene issues at retail outlets, bars etc.
• Fire & Rescue Authority investigations into Fire Safety breaches arising from inspections and fires.
• Police, SFO, NCA investigations into white collar crime (fraud, bribery, AML etc).
• Cautioned interviews and prosecutions by all regulators in the criminal sphere in England & Wales jurisdiction.
• Coroner’s Inquests.
• Building Safety Act compliance and breaches.

Please note this is an agile hybrid working opportunity and we the team is supportive of all manner of flexible working arrangements.