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Steve Melrose

Steve
Melrose

Associate Attorney

CONTACT INFO

smelrose@gibsondunn.com

TEL:+44 (0)20 7071 4219

FAX:+44 (0)20 7070 9219

London

Telephone House, 2-4 Temple Avenue, London, EC4Y 0HB United Kingdom

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PRACTICE

White Collar Defense and Investigations Administrative Law and Regulatory Practice Antitrust and Competition Betting and Gaming FCPA Financial Institutions International Trade Litigation Transnational Litigation

BIOGRAPHY

Steve Melrose is a New Zealand qualified associate in the London office of Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher.

Mr. Melrose is a member of the firm’s Dispute Resolution, White Collar Defence and Investigations, and Antitrust and Competition practice groups. His practice focuses on domestic and cross-border corporate and regulatory investigations, and antitrust and white-collar criminal matters.

Mr. Melrose advises corporates and individuals under investigation by government authorities in the UK, including the Financial Conduct Authority and the Serious Fraud Office, and in the U.S., including the New York Attorney General, Securities and Exchange Commission, Commodities and Futures Trading Commission and the Department of Justice. He has extensive experience advising clients in relation to the UK Bribery Act 2010 and FCA systems and controls matters.

Mr. Melrose has also has experience counselling clients under investigation by the European Commission, as well as the UK Competition and Markets Authority, for antitrust violations.  In addition, he advises clients in connection with English consumer law matters and related CMA investigations.

Mr. Melrose is a member of the London Office Diversity Executive Committee.

Representative work includes:

  • Advising a global company in connection with parallel DOJ, FCA and SFO investigations regarding allegations of bribery and corruption.
  • Representing an individual under investigation by the FCA and CFTC for trading related conduct issues.
  • Advising a global financial institution as part of a multi-office teams in connection with the LIBOR and FX investigations conducted by antitrust, criminal and regulatory bodies in the UK, U.S. and various other major jurisdictions, which involved extensive direct interactions with the FCA and SFO.
  • Advising a U.S. investment bank in connection with criminal investigations brought simultaneously in the U.S. (DOJ and SEC) and UK (Financial Conduct Authority) in relation to suspicions of insider dealing.
  • Advising a global consulting firm in connection with enquiries from the FCA regarding insider dealing concerns.
  • Advising a U.S. listed global consulting firm to resolve historic contentious tax issues with the Swiss Federal and Cantonal tax authorities.
  • Advising a Swiss insurance company in connection with its U.S. cross border tax exposure.
  • Advising a global media company in connection with various cross-border whistleblower and other internal investigations in Europe and APAC.
  • Advising a global musical instruments company in connection with a CMA antitrust investigation, through to negotiated resolution.
  • Advising a care home management firm and its North American shareholders in connection with a CMA consumer law investigation, which resulted in the first resolution in which the CMA used its newly acquired Enhanced Consumer Measures (in this case formal Undertakings).

Prior to joining the firm, Mr. Melrose practiced in the Wellington office of a leading New Zealand law firm. Before entering private practice, Mr. Melrose was a Legal and Policy Advisor at the New Zealand Law Reform Commission where he worked on a range of criminal and public law enquiries.

EDUCATION

Institute of Professional Legal Studies - 2009 Professional Legal Studies Crs

Victoria University of Wellington - 2008 Bachelor of Arts

Victoria University of Wellington - 2008 Bachelor of Laws (LL.B.)

ADMISSIONS

New Zealand - Barrister and Solicitor

RECENT PUBLICATIONS

Client Alert - January 14, 2021 | UK Financial Services Regulation – 2020 Year-End Review
Client Alert - October 29, 2020 | The UK Serious Fraud Office 2020 Deferred Prosecution Agreement Guidance: Something Old and Something New
Client Alert - July 17, 2020 | 2020 Mid-Year FCPA Update
Client Alert - July 9, 2020 | Human Rights Abusers (and those dealing with them) Beware: UK Introduces Its First “Magnitsky” Sanctions
Client Alert - May 28, 2020 | UK Financial Conduct Authority Outlines Expectations for Managing Enhanced Market Conduct Risks in the Context of the Pandemic
Publications - May 13, 2020 | Webcast: Managing regulatory and legal risk in financial services during the COVID-19 pandemic
Client Alert - May 11, 2020 | European Commission Launches Major AML Initiative
Publications - April 7, 2020 | COVID-19 UK Weekly Webinar – April 6, 2020
Client Alert - April 2, 2020 | COVID-19 & International Trade – Nation-State Responses to a Global Pandemic
Article - March 2, 2020 | Is the Guralp Systems Limited No-Penalty DPA a Tectonic Shift or Factual Peculiarity?
Client Alert - January 7, 2020 | 2019 Year-End FCPA Update
Client Alert - December 23, 2019 | Guralp Systems Limited – UK Serious Fraud Office’s Sixth Deferred Prosecution Agreement Results in No Penalty for Company. Tectonic Shift in DPAs or Factual Peculiarity?
Client Alert - July 8, 2019 | The SFO’s Fifth DPA – High Five or Down Low? Too Slow!
Article - May 10, 2019 | Case Comment: The Director of the Serious Fraud Office v Eurasian Natural Resources Corporation Limited
Client Alert - January 7, 2019 | 2018 Year-End FCPA Update
Client Alert - September 11, 2018 | SFO Successfully Defends Challenge over the Territorial Scope of Compulsory Document Requests
Client Alert - September 5, 2018 | Court of Appeal in London Overturns Widely Criticised High Court Judgment in SFO v ENRC
Client Alert - July 10, 2018 | 2018 Mid-Year FCPA Update
Client Alert - July 5, 2018 | London Diversity Committee Newsletter – July 2018
Client Alert - February 2, 2018 | 2017 Year-End United Kingdom White Collar Crime Update
Client Alert - September 29, 2017 | UK Criminal Finances Act 2017: New Corporate Facilitation of Tax Evasion Offence – Act Now to Secure the Reasonable Prevention Procedures Defence
Client Alert - July 18, 2017 | 2017 Mid-Year United Kingdom White Collar Crime Update
Client Alert - January 11, 2017 | 2016 Year-End United Kingdom White Collar Crime Update
Client Alert - November 1, 2016 | Privilege – European Union
Client Alert - September 22, 2016 | 2016 Mid-Year United Kingdom White Collar Crime Update
Client Alert - February 1, 2016 | 2015 Year-End United Kingdom White Collar Crime Update
Client Alert - January 5, 2016 | 2015 Year-End Update on Corporate Non-Prosecution Agreements (NPAs) and Deferred Prosecution Agreements (DPAs)
Client Alert - January 4, 2016 | 2015 Year-End FCPA Update
Client Alert - October 2, 2015 | UK Consumer Rights Act 2015 Ushers in Class Action-Style Collective Proceedings Regime in the Competition Appeals Tribunal
Client Alert - January 5, 2015 | 2014 Year-End FCPA Update
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