Tom McGuire is an associate in Covington’s London White Collar Crime, Investigations and International Trade Controls practices. He advises on a wide range of matters relating to white collar crime and anti-corruption compliance, regulatory investigations and economic sanctions and export controls. Tom has experience advising clients in various sectors on: matters concerning bribery and corruption, money laundering, cybercrime and online fraud; regulatory and internal investigations; criminal enforcement matters; anti-corruption compliance issues; and, public and political law matters, including in relation to judicial review proceedings.
Tom also has significant experience of advising on issues relating to EU and UK economic sanctions and export controls, including assisting clients in the technology, energy, mining, pharmaceutical and financial services sectors in the context of international trade compliance, investigations, transactional due diligence, and making formal disclosures and reports to regulatory authorities.
Prior to joining Covington, Tom worked at the UK Serious Fraud Office (SFO), initially as an Intelligence Officer and later as an Investigator. During his time at the SFO, Tom worked on a number of high-profile, complex, multi-jurisdictional investigations, focused mainly upon bribery and corruption in the energy sector, which involved cooperation with international law enforcement authorities in various jurisdictions.
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