Gez Owen

General Counsel and Head of Content

Hubbis

Profile:

Formerly a Senior international corporate crime and regulation lawyer. He focused on domestic and international investigations, fraud, corporate and financial crime, anti-corruption, anti-money laundering, disciplinary proceedings and regulation. Gerallt has advised on high profile cross-border investigations and proceedings brought by the Serious Fraud Office, DBEIS, HM Revenue & Customs , the CPS, HSE, Trading Standards departments, CMA, Financial Conduct Authority, Prudential Regulation Authority, FRC, Lloyds of London and various professional and sporting disciplinary bodies. Gerallt also advised corporations and financial institutions in respect of regulatory and compliance issues including bespoke training and implementation of global policies and procedures. He has been an intervention agent for the Solicitors' Regulation Authority and is a member of the Disciplinary Panel of The Academy of Experts. Admitted as a Solicitor of England and Wales in 1995 and in the British Virgin Islands in 2012.

Gerallt has lectured extensively in the UK and overseas including:

  • APEC Conference Japan
  • China Anti-Corruption Summit, (Chairman)
  • Corporate Security Management Conference, SG
  • Hubbis Compliance in Asia Forum 2017
  • LawAsia, SG
  • ACFE - Conducting internal corporate investigations - Singapore (Keynote speaker)
  • The Asian Banker- Financial Crime360
  • Anti-corruption compliance, Thailand
  • TAPA Thailand

Gerallt has previously been listed as one of 'The Lawyer - Hot 100'. Recommended by Chambers & Partners Global for dispute resolution in both Singapore and the UK, Legal 500 UK 2016, Best Lawyers 2017, The International Who's Who Legal 2017 in three practice areas: Business Crime Defence, Asset Recovery and Investigations and in Expert Guides 2016 for white collar criminal defence.

Who's Who Legal, listed him as one of the top ten most highly regarded business crime defense lawyers in the World based outside the UK/US. Finance Monthly Business Crime Lawyer of the year 2016, and Corporate LiveWire White collar lawyer of the year 2016.

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Compliance & Regulation

Regulation, compliance and the wealth management industry in Asia Gez Owen, Managing Director & General Counsel at Hubbis, had more than 22 yeras of experience as a lawyer in the UK dealing with white collar crime. He has concerns that the wealth industry in Asia needs to upgrade its understanding of new global regulation and compliance demands..

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