Internal investigations and corporate crime

We regularly assist companies and organisations in the private and public sectors in investigating and handling suspected or established irregularities in their operations. Eyer Juridik has extensive experience of conducting complex investigations, often with international ramifications. The firm helps clients both with internal investigations and with leading investigations triggered by suspicions against the company.

Objective and effective investigations

To preserve the value of an investigation in a corporate crisis, it is absolutely essential to ensure the investigation's independence, objectivity and integrity. Against that background, we have established a well-developed methodology for safely and efficiently scoping, conducting and reporting the outcome of our engagement.

An effective investigation should provide management or the board with the information needed to make well-founded decisions on how to proceed and how to counter misconduct and risk. Our duty of confidentiality gives us strong conditions for efficiently carrying out our investigative work and protects those who provide information.

Experts in corporate criminal law

Thanks to our experienced experts in corporate criminal law, we also represent client companies and organisations in criminal investigations, prosecutions and crime-related disputes.

We advise and represent companies and organisations in criminal investigations, prosecutions and crime-related disputes — whether (i) the client has been the victim of a crime, (ii) someone is suspected of having committed a crime within the client's operations, or (iii) the client has otherwise become involved in a criminal investigation or another legal process linked to criminal acts.

Our experts in corporate criminal law have many years of practical experience in this work.

Selected advisory areas

• Corporate investigations of suspected corruption, money laundering, sanctions violations and other business-related irregularities
• Strategic advice in connection with investigations of the company by Swedish or foreign authorities
• Liability investigations to assess the organisation's execution, governance and controls
• Criminal-law analyses and considerations, and evaluation of evidence ahead of, e.g., decisions on filing police reports, employment-law measures or claims for damages where employees have committed crimes in the course of their duties
• Defence of companies and organisations in criminal investigations that may result in corporate fines, confiscation or liability for damages
• Advice and support to client companies that have been asked by authorities to disclose information and documentation, to make employees available for witness interviews or to otherwise cooperate with an investigation within a criminal investigation
• Tracing and taking legal action to recover or secure compensation for property lost through criminal acts — for example, embezzlement and fraud (so-called asset recovery)