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Alun is a partner in the Criminal Litigation team and specialises in serious or complex financial crime, proceeds of crime litigation and corporate investigations. He has particular knowledge and experience of issues surrounding cross-border criminal investigations, corporate crime and deferred prosecution agreements.
Alun advises companies and individuals on the full range of white-collar and business crime-related issues, including fraud, bribery, money laundering, confiscation, civil recovery (including account freezing orders) and sanctions. Typically his clients are caught up in investigations undertaken by domestic enforcement authorities such as the Serious Fraud Office, His Majesty’s Revenue and Customs, the National Crime Agency and the police, and he also acts in cases where the investigation is conducted by an overseas authority, such as the US Department of Justice, which has asked the United Kingdom for mutual legal assistance.
His corporate work includes undertaking investigations, frequently with an international element, and liaising with the enforcement authorities. He has experience of negotiating deferred prosecution agreements. For individuals, he acts for both suspects and witnesses.
Alun joined Kingsley Napley from the public sector where, over a twenty-six-year career as a government lawyer and public prosecutor, he worked in a wide variety of roles including General Counsel at the Serious Fraud Office, the Crown Prosecution Services’ Head of Organised Crime, its Head of Proceeds of Crime and Revenue and Customs Prosecutions Office’s Head of Asset Forfeiture Division. He also worked as a prosecutor in central London and a lawyer in the Attorney General’s Office. He is an excellent strategist, and his advice is always practical and outcome-focused.
Alun is the co-editor of Kingsley Napley and 6 KBW College Hill on Fraud, a regular speaker at conferences and an established commentator on economic crime issues. From 2016 to 2023 he sat on the Board of Advisers of New York University's Program on Corporate Compliance and Enforcement.
Alun is ranked in Chambers and Partners UK and recognised in Legal 500 as Leading Partner. He is also listed in Who's Who Legal Thought Leaders GIR and the Lexology Index Investigations Report 2025.
What Clients and Directories say
Alun Milford knows POCA inside out, POCA Work & Asset Forfeiture client UK"
He's a really good lawyer and is really good with clients too."
Chambers UK, 2025
Alun has a fantastic range of experience."
Chambers UK, 2025
He is vigorous and realistic."
Chambers UK, 2025
Publications, press Highlights & Speaking engagements
- Sanctions on wealthy figures linked to Russia are Kafkaesque, The Times, July 2024
- 6KBW College Hill: Serious Fraud, Investigation & Trial (5th edition), September 2023
- UK government proposes reform to identification doctrine: a change of landscape for prosecutors and corporations?, Thomson Reuters Regulatory Intelligence, June 2023
- The identification doctrine under scrutiny, New Law Journal, June 2023
- Identification doctrine overhaul a welcome gift for prosecutors, Global Investigations Review, June 2023
- Identification doctrine reform could put more corporates in the dock, Law Gazette, June 2023
- Directors face criminal liability threat, Accountancy Daily, June 2023
- Government proposes reform to the identification doctrine to combat financial crime, Solicitors Journal, June 2023
- What accountants need to know about the Fraud Strategy, Accountancy Daily, May 2023
- Fraud strategy ‘simply not adequate’ to address current scale of economic crime, says law firm, Police Professional, May 2023
- Economic Crime Action Plan Moves Into Second Wave, New Law Journal, April 2023
- Fight Against Financial Crime Will Suffer Without Funding, Law 360, March 2023
- Corporate criminal liability reform still on agenda, government insists, Law Gazette, March 2023
- ‘Made in China’ as Possible Supply Chain Money Laundering - February 2023
- UK government publishes Strategic Policing Requirement 2023 - Solicitors Journal, February 2023
- Widening "Failure To Prevent" Duties: A New Monster Or Necessary Step? WealthBriefing, February 2023
- Pointing the finger - Law Society Gazette Magazine, January 2023
- Examining UK Commission's Corporate Crime Reform Ideas - Law360, June 2022
- Law Commission proposals put heat on UK execs - Quoted in Compliance Week, June 2022
- Catching Corporate Criminals - Quoted in the New Law Journal, June 2022
- Fraud Reform Proposals Could Yield More Fines For Cos. - Quoted in Law360, June 2022
- UK Urged To Toughen Corporate Crime Laws With New Fines - Quoted in Law360, June 2022
- 10 years of the UK Bribery Act: Compliance enough to define law’s success? Quoted in Compliance Week, July 2021
- AML compliance proving tall hurdle for UK crypto firms - Quoted in Law Compliance Week, June 2021
- The Territorial Reach of the SFO - The Supreme Court Decides - January 2021
- Alun Milford, Caroline Day, Aine Kervick & Phil Salvesen contribute to the International Comparative Legal Guide: Corporate Crime - January 2021
- Getting the deal through: discussing anti-corruption in the UK - Wrote for Lexology, December 2020
- UK Governments fence sitting approach to reforms of corporate criminal liability laws - Quoted in various sources, November 2020
- Companies House powers boosted to tackle £137bn dirty money deficit - Quoted in Accountancy Daily, September 2020
- Panel Speaker for THEMIS on the topic of: Dealmaking, Due Diligence and Investigations in Uncertain Times - September 2020
- Will the Economic Crime Levy bring much needed investment in the fight against economic crime? - August 2020, This was also published on Money Laundering Bulletin
- Unexplained Wealth Orders, Explained: The UK regime and considerations for the United States, Part 2 - August 2020, co-authored a blog with Alicyn Cooley, Executive Director of the Program on Corporate Compliance and Enforcement and an Adjunct Professor of Law at New York University School of Law
- Managing Internal Investigations in a post COVID-19 world - Wrote for Legal 500 Crisis Management Special, July 2020
- Unexplained Wealth Orders, Explained: The UK regime and considerations for the United States, Part 1 - July 2020, co-authored a blog with Alicyn Cooley, Executive Director of the Program on Corporate Compliance and Enforcement and an Adjunct Professor of Law at New York University School of Law
- Appeared on BBC World Service Radio discussing new rules requiring all people arriving in the UK to self-isolate for 14 days - 8 June 2020 (Timestamp from 17:20 on video)
- Business and Government should brace for wave of fraud - Quoted in The Telegraph, April 2020
- Alun Milford quoted extensively following Government's announced proposals to introduce an economic crime levy - Quoted in Legal Business, CityAM, Law360, FT.com, The Law Society Gazette, New Law Journal & International Investment, March 2020
- Connected compliance in a Global Market: Essential Elements of an Effective Compliance & Ethics Programme 2019 - Alun spoke on a panel about what authorities expect to see in your compliance programme, 11 November 2019
- When justice takes a holiday - Quoted in Law360, September 2019
- SFO guidance on co-operation: more carrot than stick? - PLC Magazine, August 2019
- Economic Crime Plan for 2019-2020 - Quoted in The Law Society Gazette, GIR and Commercial Dispute Resolution Online, July 2019
- DPAs: good deals or a two-tier system? - Quoted in the Times, June 2019
- UK is failing in the fight against money laundering - Quoted in The Times, March 2019
- Estate agents come under the HMRC spotlight, March 2019
- Featured in The Times, No-deal is a backwards step for solving crossborder crime, February 2019
Further information
- Who's Who Legal Investigation Guide 2024 - Recommended
- Who's Who Legal Thought Leaders GIR: Investigations
- Leaders League- Compliance - Corporates / Financial institutions 2024 Rank : Highly recommended
- Listed in Leaders League 2024 in Compliance - Corporates/Financial Institutions as Highly Recommended
- Listed in Who's Who Legal Investigation Guide 2024 as Recommended Leaders in Their Field
- Listed in Leaders League as Forte Notoriete for Compliance & Fraude - Entreprises / Institutions financières
- Member of the Practitioners' Advisory Panel for the Independent Review of Disclosure and Fraud Offences
