Bristol-headquartered national law firm TLT has appointed economic crime and compliance specialist Ben Cooper as a partner.
Ben, pictured, left, with TLT head of financial services Andrew Lyon, now heads the firm’s national economic crime compliance team, working closely with its financial services regulatory, investigations and disputes practice. 
TLT said his experience working in-house at HSBC, as well as his consultancy experience, would further bolster the level of support it offers to financial services firms and corporates.
Ben spent seven years at HSBC, where he worked held a number of senior roles, including global head of financial crime (functions) and global head of anti-bribery and corruption. He was responsible for implementing and operating global economic crime compliance programmes.
Ben trained and qualified at KLegal and has also worked for the Asset Recovery Agency and Serious Organised Crime Agency (now the National Crime Agency) and accountancy group PWC – making him uniquely placed to advise clients on handling inquiries and investigations from law enforcement agencies, said TLT.
He has more than 20 years’ experience advising governments, financial institutions and corporates on all aspects of economic crime.
This includes advising on asset tracing, bribery and corruption, complex investigations, corporate ethics, criminal proceedings, fraud, money laundering, sanctions, tax evasion and terrorist proliferation financing.
TLT head of financial services Andrew Lyon said: “We’re very excited to be welcoming Ben to TLT. He is a widely respected economic crime subject matter expert with a wide variety of experience advising public sector organisations, banks and private companies.
“With a number of key regulatory change programmes and statutory amendments in play at the moment in the financial services sector, Ben’s regulatory focus on economic crime and operational resilience will be an invaluable addition to our client offering.”
Ben added: “I’m delighted to be joining TLT during an exciting period of growth for the firm. With digitalisation, enhanced regulations and more scrutiny than ever before being place on financial services firms and corporates, clients need to be completely up to speed with the fast-evolving landscape of economic crime compliance.
“I look forward to working closely with the rest of the team to provide in-depth expert advice to help these firms meet their individual needs and requirements and prepare them for the next challenges ahead.”
TLT has 159 partners and around 1,400 people across its offices in Bristol, London, Manchester, Glasgow, Edinburgh and Belfast.
