A Victory For Legal Privilege In Cross-Border Investigations

By Antonia Apps, Charles Evans, Katherine Goldstein and William Charles (November 16, 2018, 2:53 PM EST) -- Regulators in the U.K. and the U.S. are increasingly placing pressure on companies to provide materials considered to be protected by legal privilege. The authorities have focused, in particular, on witness interview memoranda prepared by outside counsel conducting an internal investigation into allegations of wrongdoing. In recent years, in the U.K., the scope of the legal privileges protecting these materials from disclosure has been challenged, curtailing the ability of corporates to resist disclosure of sensitive investigative materials to regulators and to private litigants. This has created a serious divergence between U.K. and U.S. law as to the scope of the legal protections afforded to those materials....

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