Daniel Hudson

Partner

Dan Hudson leads Seladore’s white collar and regulatory disputes practice.

Dan helps clients with some of their most serious, reputationally important issues that go beyond business as usual. He has more than 20 years’ experience (with over a decade as a partner) in Herbert Smith Freehills’ corporate crime and investigations’ practice and before that as a criminal barrister.

Dan advises and represents corporate, institutional and individual clients on financial crime matters, with a focus on bribery and corruption, sanctions, fraud, regulatory investigations, insider dealing, money laundering, accounting irregularities and connected disputes.

Dan has significant experience working with clients in connection (whether as suspects, witnesses or victims) with internal and external criminal and regulatory investigations, including those conducted by the UK Serious Fraud Office, FCA, Police and HMRC. He represents clients facing prosecution and also assists clients acting as witnesses in domestic and foreign criminal proceedings.

Having also spent over two decades advising in connection with due diligence, corruption and sanctions issues (including in relation to transactions) as well as sanctions, anti–money laundering, anti-bribery and Business and Human Rights procedures, Dan is well placed to advise clients when things go wrong and when such matters become contentious.

He is named a Leading Partner for Regulatory Investigations and Corporate Crime in the Legal 500 directory and is ranked in Chambers for Corporate Crime & Investigations.

TESTIMONIALS

“He consistently provides clear, commercial advice on a timely basis on a range of financial crime matters, however complex.”

CHAMBERS UK 2024

“He is a very experienced, long-established white-collar crime practitioner. Clients love him.”

CHAMBERS UK 2024

“A mega brain and sanctions whizz”

“Very experienced at handling cross border investigations”.

“A superb lawyer”

“A standout practitioner in this space”

“Noted for his recent multi-jurisdictional work in the financial sector.”

“Extremely knowledgeable and a known expert”

An excellent communicator”

“[Someone] who see[s] the big picture and oversee[s] the provision of timely practical advice”

“Hugely bright”

“Commercial”

“Very professional and capable”

“A pleasure to work with”

“Highly effective and a clear communicator,” adding that he “provides pragmatic advice and is very easy to deal with.”

“Someone who’s strong intellectually and technically, but has good common sense and a no-nonsense approach.”

Advising ICBC Standard Bank plc in respect of its entry into the UK’s first deferred prosecution agreement (also the first resolution of an enforcement action under section 7 of the Bribery Act) following UK and US investigations into suspected bribery in Africa.
Advising a global financial institution in one of the largest and highest profile corruption and financial services regulatory investigations, centred in Asia, advising across eight jurisdictions and involving multiple law enforcement agencies and regulators.
Advising a number of clients in relation to UK SFO and UK FCA LIBOR and FX investigations including in relation to the provision of evidence.
Advising a senior individual in connection with the global corruption investigations into Rolls Royce.
Advising an international pharmaceutical company headquartered in the Far East in relation to internal investigations into instances of bribery, related Bribery Act issues with a counterparty, the company’s ABC compliance policies and procedures, and providing consequential advice on those procedures.
Advising senior individuals in connection with corruption investigations into energy companies.
Advising various individuals in connection with a criminal investigation into a scientific equipment manufacturer.
Advising a FTSE 100 company with global subsidiaries to produce anti-corruption procedures in accordance with the Bribery Act and leading a team to conduct external reviews of implementation of the procedures.
Advising a U.K. company in connection with the various implications, including for its staff, of the sanctions imposed on its Russian parent.
Advising a public utility company in connection with regulatory and SFO investigations into allegations of misleading the regulator.
Successfully assisting a former chief executive of a listed U.K. company in connection with criminal charges relating to publishing false financial statements.