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Caroline is an investigations specialist. She advises organisations and individuals caught up in serious and complex criminal and regulatory investigations. She has extensive experience in this area and conducts internal investigations on behalf of her corporate clients when allegations of misconduct arise.
Caroline advises companies and individuals in connection with investigations by enforcement authorities including the SFO, FCA, CMA and various regulatory bodies. Much of Caroline’s work is sensitive, high profile and multi-jurisdictional.
Caroline advises clients in a wide range of cases in the white collar and business crime sphere, in cases involving allegations of serious fraud, money laundering, corruption, cartels, and environmental crime, alongside other alleged misconduct. Caroline has extensive experience conducting internal investigations and reviews on behalf of organisations, and her cases often span multiple jurisdictions.
In addition, Caroline represents individuals facing a broad range of criminal and regulatory investigations. She acts as an Independent Legal Advisor (ILA) representing clients in internal investigations and compulsory interviews with the authorities, and representing clients in interviews under caution.
Alongside her fraud and investigations practice, Caroline has public law experience; she represented a number of military witnesses before the Baha Mousa Public Inquiry, and advised in connection with the Independent Inquiry into Child Sexual Abuse, led by Professor Alexis Jay.
Caroline was named in Global Investigation Review’s Top 100 Women in Investigations survey 2018, a survey profiling one hundred investigations specialists from around the world. She co-author’s the chapter on witness interviews (UK perspective) for GIR’s The Practitioners Guide to Global Investigations, and is the Vice Chair of the Fraud Lawyers Association. She is also listed in the Lexology Index Investigations Report 2025 as Recommended. Caroline is also listed as a Leading Partner in Legal 500 and is ranked in Chambers UK.
What Clients and Directories have said
Caroline is clever, efficient and diligent, with excellent judgment and attention to detail."
Legal 500 UK 2023
Caroline is the glue that holds a major case team together. She is the first name I would instruct / recommend and then build the team from there. Her ability to work under huge time pressure in cases with intense public and media scrutiny is impressive. She leads and co-ordinates with real skill and sensitivity."
Legal 500 UK 2023
Caroline Day is easy to get on with and hugely knowledgeable about all issues that arise when representing corporate clients in financial investigations."
Legal 500 UK 2022
Caroline Day is clever, calm and has good judgement."
Legal 500 UK 2021
She is very collaborative in the way she works. She has real determination and is a very impressive lawyer."
Chambers UK 2021
Very hard-working, savvy and highly personable."
Who's Who Legal for Investigations - Future Leaders 2018
Professional, solicitous, honest, firm
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PROFESSIONAL SOCIETIES AND MEMBERSHIPS
- The Law Society
- Fraud Lawyers Association (FLA) (Vice Chair)
Publications, Press Highlights & Speaking Engagements
- Caroline chaired GIR Live: London Winter 2023
- Workplace investigations: Common traps and how to avoid them, People Management, July 2023
- Five key steps where there is a risk of fraud investigation, May 2023
- Witness Interviews in Internal Investigations: The UK Perspective, January 2023
- The Law Commission and corporate crime, Solicitor's Journal, July 2022
- Alun Milford, Caroline Day, Aine Kervick & Phil Salvesen contribute to the International Comparative Legal Guide: Corporate Crime - January 2021
- Managing Internal Investigations in a post COVID-19 World - Wrote for Legal 500 Crisis Management Special, July 2020
- COVID-19 Slow Pace of Existing UK Investigations - Quoted in Law360, April 2020
- The Practitioner's Guide to Global Investigations 4th Edition, chapter on Witness Interviews: The UK perspective. With Louise Hodges. Published February 2020.
- What we know so far about the Competition and Markets Authority Annual Plan 2020-21, January 2020
- Contributor to The Practitioner’s Guide to Global Investigations, Third Edition, published by Global Investigations Review
- Quoted in New Law Journal, Follow the Money, 24 January 2018
- Quoted in Financier Worldwide: OPBAS set to boost AML in the UK, October 2017
- The Practitioner's Guide to Global Investigations, chapter on 'Witness Interviews: The UK perspective. With Louise Hodges Published 03 January 2017.
- Contributor - Police updates for the Solicitor’s Journal.
- Regularly speaks at conferences and seminars both in the UK and abroad.
Further information
- Listed in Leaders League 2024 in Compliance - Corporates/Financial Institutions as Highly Recommended
- Listed in Who's Who Legal Investigation Guide 2024 as Recommended
- Listed in Who's Who Legal Investigation Guide 2023 as Future Leader
- Listen in Who's Who Legal: Business Crime Defence for Corporates 2021
- Listed in Leaders League as Forte Notoriete for Compliance & Fraude - Entreprises / Institutions financières
