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
"A real leader in the field....He knows his stuff, cuts through the nonsense and is very responsive."
CHAMBERS UK 2026
"A hugely experienced expert in corporate crime. His analysis is always quick and is very impressive."
CHAMBERS UK 2026
"A a highly experienced financial crime lawyer with excellent judgement."
CHAMBERS UK 2026
“He consistently provides clear, commercial advice on a timely basis on a range of financial crime matters, however complex.”
CHAMBERS UK 2025
“He is a very experienced, long-established white-collar crime practitioner. Clients love him.”
CHAMBERS UK 2025
“A mega brain and sanctions whizz.”
CHAMBERS UK 2024
“Very experienced at handling cross border investigations".
CHAMBERS UK 2024
“A standout practitioner in this space.”
CHAMBERS UK 2024
"Noted for his multi-jurisdictional work in the financial sector."
CHAMBERS UK 2023
“Extremely knowledgeable and a known expert.”
CHAMBERS UK 2023
“Hugely bright.”
CHAMBERS UK 2023
“Very professional and capable...A pleasure to work with.”
CHAMBERS UK 2022
"He provides pragmatic advice and is very easy to deal with."
CHAMBERS UK 2022
“Someone who’s strong intellectually and technically, but has good common sense and a no-nonsense approach.”
CHAMBERS UK 2021
- 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.
News & Insights
Seladore Legal announces the arrival of David Gilmore as Partner
Seladore Legal is pleased to announce that David Gilmore has joined the firm as a Partner, further strengthening its international arbitration and cross-border disputes offering across London and Asia.
Seladore contributes to GIR Market Review: Privilege 2025
In this year’s edition of GIR Market Review: Privilege 2025 for Global Investigations Review, Dan Hudson, Kevin Kilgour and Luke Taylor explore how legal privilege is adapting to new technologies and the evolving landscape of investigations.
Seladore acts in successful Privy Council case on “just and equitable” winding up
Seladore Legal has acted for the successful Respondent in a Privy Council appeal upholding the winding-up of a Cayman exempted limited partnership on the just and equitable ground, clarifying the scope of the jurisdiction beyond traditional “quasi-partnership” cases.