Ruby Hamid
Ruby Hamid

Ruby Hamid

Partner

London

+44 20 7859 3922 | +44 782 334 1079
Ruby.Hamid@ashurstperkins.com

Introduction

Ruby draws on her comprehensive, coal-face experience to guide clients through complex investigations, governance crises and criminal and regulatory proceedings.

Ruby Hamid leads our Global Investigations practice, and co-leads or Global Corporate Crime team. She is an experienced adviser on investigations, white collar crime and compliance, ethics and risk management. She represents corporate clients across a broad spectrum of criminal, investigatory and regulatory matters and is adept at advising on complex internal investigations and those which are regulator or prosecutor-led. A key part of Ruby's practice is advising Boards on corporate governance and risk management.

Ruby is a former prosecutor and spent 13 years at the independent Bar before joining a Magic Circle firm in 2015. She spent a decade leading investigations and prosecutions for the FCA, the National Crime Agency, HMRC, the CPS Specialist Fraud and Serious Crime Units, the FRC and the Environment Agency. She was Panel Counsel for the SFO, General Medical Counsel and the Office of Rail Regulation. She is a highly experienced trial lawyer, having acted as sole advocate in courts of first instance, appellate courts and before a variety of tribunals. This experience underpins the advice she provides and the strategies she employs on behalf of her clients.

Ruby has particular experience in regulated sectors, and in energy and infrastructure and frequently acts cross-border. She spent six years acting for the Financial Conduct Authority, investigating and prosecuting their most serious market abuse and insider dealing cases.

A key part of Ruby's practice is her advice on financial crime prevention, modern slavery and supply-chain management, and corporate governance. She has been seconded to a Fortune 500 company as interim head of international compliance.

Ruby is recommended in all the major legal directories and was chosen as one of Global Investigation Review's top 100 'Women in Investigations'. She is a partner sponsor for the race and ethnicity strand of Ashurst Perkins Coie's DE&I program and sits on the Board of the barristers' professional regulator, the Bar Standards Board.

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