Criminal Fraud / Cybercrime Associate London 12 month FTC

Join our team in a global fraud / cybercrime role! Work closely with a major technology and retail client, combating fraud and cybercrime across the world. Your impact will be key to their strategy, managing investigations and supporting criminal enforcement actions.

About CMS

CMS is a Future Facing firm with more than 70 offices in over 40 countries and 5,000+ lawyers worldwide. We combine deep local market understanding with a global perspective. We are passionate about building strong relationships with our clients, our people, and the communities we work in.

We take a bold, dynamic, and agile approach to ensure our clients are able to face the future with confidence. We are driven by technology and readily embrace the possibilities it opens up for developing new and better ways of working.  Our aim is to inspire, impact and support our clients and our people, helping them to maximize their potential and thrive.

About the Role

We are looking to fill a number of positions working on a project with one of the firm’s key clients – who is a major global technology and retail company.

The role will involve you working closely with this client, either as an employee of CMS or through a secondment to the client directly.

You will assist in fraud and cybercrime investigations across the globe, offering legal support in the pursuit of criminal and civil enforcement actions, in a variety of territories. The role is a key part of the client’s strategy, supporting the combatting of fraud and cybercrime.

A significant amount of the work will involve managing and co-ordinating investigations, with a view to bringing criminal enforcement actions, as well as some civil claims. Some of these criminal and/or civil enforcement actions will be made in the UK, but most will be made outside of the UK (with the assistance of local law firms), including in Europe and India.

The role will involve high levels of client contact, analysis of complex data packages and preparation of trial material, such as witness statements and exhibits, as well as the management and progression of your own varied caseload. 

About You

We are looking for a solicitor or barrister who is an 1-3 years PQE.

The associate must be ambitious, who has had exposure to criminal (and ideally also civil) fraud work, and is confident engaging with commercial clients. The associate must also be able to show either experience or aptitude in managing and driving forwards their own caseload. Useful, but not essential, will be knowledge of cybercrime or e-commerce related fraud issues, any exposure to large programmatic projects and experience of instructing investigators, counsel & overseas law firms.

Equal Opportunities

At CMS, a next-generation mindset is woven into all we do. We're diverse, supportive and inclusive, embracing our corporate social responsibility and creating a culture of sustainability in which every one of our people, whatever their background, can maximise their potential and thrive.

For further information about CMS' diversity initiatives and programmes, please click here to view the diversity pages on our website.

Please apply online or contact a member of the Talent Acquisition team if you have any questions. For information regarding our competitive range of benefits please visit our Rewards & Benefits page on our website.

Please note that CMS have a preferred agency panel in place. Only applications submitted via the portal at the point of instruction will be accepted.

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