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How do I manage interactions with law enforcement during a parallel civil/regulatory inquiry?

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When a civil or regulatory inquiry runs in parallel with a law-enforcement investigation, the same facts attract two very different processes, and steps that help in one forum can cause serious harm in the other.

The board-level exposure is that disclosures, settlements or testimony given to a regulator are used in a criminal case, or that the two timelines collide.

This report explains how parallel proceedings arise in your chosen jurisdiction and industry, and the interaction of civil, regulatory and criminal regimes.

It covers the privilege and self-incrimination protections at stake, the sequencing strategies counsel use, the warning indicators of a criminal turn, and realistic impact ranges. It also sets out guidance on when to engage criminal-defence and regulatory counsel together.

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