Collins Chambers acts for company officers, professionals, and private individuals in prosecutions for fraud, bribery and corruption, insider trading, market misconduct, and offences under the Corporations Act and related Commonwealth and State legislation.
These matters are typically investigated and prosecuted by the Australian Securities and Investments Commission, the Commonwealth Director of Public Prosecutions, and Victoria Police’s specialist fraud divisions.
Corporate crime differs from other criminal work in structure as much as substance. The prosecution case is documentary, often running to hundreds of thousands of pages; the alleged conduct spans years; and the matter frequently begins long before charge, in the form of compulsory examinations, notices to produce, and regulatory investigation. The decisions made in that early phase — what is said, what is produced, what privileges are claimed — shape everything that follows.
The firm acts from the first point of regulatory contact through to trial and appeal. Its work includes advising on compulsory examination under the ASIC Act, responding to notices and warrants, managing claims of legal professional privilege, conducting internal reviews in parallel with external investigations, and, where matters proceed to charge, preparing and conducting the defence at trial.
The firm’s position within the Madison Branson Group gives it immediate access to commercial, corporate, and regulatory lawyers whose work bears directly on these matters — a structural advantage in prosecutions where the criminal allegations sit on top of complex commercial facts.
Individuals who become aware that they are, or may become, the subject of a regulatory investigation are advised to seek representation before their first interaction with the investigating agency. The firm accepts engagements at any stage, but the earliest engagements are the most valuable.
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