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Regulatory references under SMCR: what you need to know
Adrian Crawford
Adrian is a partner in the Employment Department and also deals with partnership matters. His practice has a particular focus on City, financial and professional services and he advises employers, partnerships, partners and senior employees. Many of his matters involve regulatory issues. He also has a particular interest in TUPE.
He has dealt with litigation in all courts and at all levels. He also has significant transactional experience having advised on significant transactions including acquisitions, outsourcings, IPOs and privatisations.
Over his long and varied career Adrian has represented banks, fund managers, brokers, insurers and professional services firms, demonstrating expertise in areas such as sexual misconduct in the workplace. He has also represented senior individuals including directors of public companies and professionals including bankers, lawyers, accountants and architects.
He focuses on securing the best commercial outcome for clients, often in situations where the future of their business or their career is at stake.
Adrian has been included in Chambers, Legal 500 and The Best Lawyers in the UK for Employment Law for a number of years.
What clients and directories say
Adrian Crawford was invaluable during the proceedings. He was always calm, patient and ensured he got the best possible result."
The Legal 500, 2024
Adrian Crawford has the knack of digesting detailed and complex information and then providing clear, tactically focused advice.”
Legal 500 UK 2022
Adrian Crawford, in particular, has almost unparalleled senior executive experience and a good knowledge of company and partnership law – I recommend him to any senior executive lay clients that come my way.”
Legal 500 UK 2022
Adrian Crawford’s advice is pragmatic, clear and he considers every relevant factor. I go to him every time we have a dicey situation and he has never let me down.”
Legal 500 UK 2020
Calm and efficient.”
Legal 500 UK 2019
huge breadth of knowledge and experience, a great memory and is very reassuring"
Chambers and Partners, 2019
Sources consider him to be "a very knowledgeable employment lawyer," and describe him as "solid, dependable and reliable."
Chambers UK 2018, A Client's Guide to the UK Legal Profession
He delivers sophisticated advice to senior executives on a wide range of issues, including investigations, whistle-blowing actions and severance disputes. A client remarks that Crawford 'has provided us with first-class assistance - he is calm, patient and he grasps the brief very quickly'."
Chambers UK 2017, A Client's Guide to the Legal Profession
Recent cases
- Advising on litigation arising from the LIBOR and forex investigations and HMRC’s challenge to film investment schemes.
- Advising a fund manager in connection with a fraud investigation.
- Advising a bank on restrictions and team moves.
- Advising in connection with the outsourcing of part of a brokerage business.
- Representing a professional services firm in connection with disputes with former partners.
- Defending complex discrimination claims for multinational companies and professional services firms.
- Advising on a dispute involving restrictions in the field of professional services.
- Defending complex discrimination claims including conducting mediations.
- Representing senior executives including a number of chief executives and finance directors in connection with their termination.
- Advising a public sector body on the application of TUPE to outsourcing arrangements.
- Representing well known law firms, professional service firms, commodity and financial futures brokers, hedge funds, companies in the manufacturing and transport sectors and senior executives.
- Resolving collective issues including major industrial disputes
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Advising on the employment aspects of major transactions including, sales outsourcings and privatisations.
Publications & press highlights
Articles
- Regulatory references under SMCR: what you need to know, FTAdviser, January 2024
- In banker hiring frenzy, bosses who offer flexible work have an edge, Financial News, January 2022
- Revealed: the FCA's £1m employment litigation bill, Citywire Wealth Manager, March 2020
- Corporate governance for accountants on the board, Accountancy Daily, January 2020
- FCA proposes extension of senior managers regime, PM Daily, August 2017
- Regulatory references: what the new rules mean in practice, PM Daily, July 2017
- Blowing the whistle, S&PA Professional, November 2015
- Maverick partners – tactics for dealing with difficult colleagues, Managing Partner Magazine, November 2015
- Five things the new bonus rules could mean for banks, Financial News, July 2015
- Whistle-blowing: Likely impact of latest government recommendations, Compliance Complete, Thompson-Reuters, July 2014
Quoted
- Remuneration after the bonus cap - Quoted in Compliance Monitor, September 2024
- Quoted in relation to Goldman Sachs removing bonus caps for London employees in Personnel Today, Financial News, and Money Marketing - May 2024
- Quoted in relation to the bankers bonus in City A.M. and BTG Advisory - February 2024
- UK Rewrites Financial Services Rules In Post-Brexit Reset - Quoted in Law360, December 2023
- Quoted in relation to the bankers bonus cap in the Daily Express, Investment Week and Financial News and EmployeeBenefits, October - December 2023
- Top investment banks battle over hybrid working demands: ‘People are just choosing to resign’ - Quoted in Financial News, May 2023
- Two million workers missing out on paid leave - Quoted in HR magazine, July 2018
Professional societies and memberships
- Employment Lawyers Association
- Association of Partnership Practitioners
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Discrimination Law Association (DLA)
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Industrial Law Society (ILS)
