Susannah Cogman is a partner in Herbert Smith Freehills, specialising in financial crime and related regulatory work. She advises financial institutions, corporates and professional services firms in connection with anti-money laundering, sanctions, anti-corruption, fraud and insider dealing issues. Susannah's advice covers a spectrum of work including: technical financial crime compliance advisory work, assisting clients to develop appropriate risk-based financial crime compliance policies and procedures, advising on financial crime risk and diligence in transactional matters, conducting internal investigations for clients, and supporting clients as suspects or witnesses in external investigations. In particular, she frequently represents clients in Serious Fraud Office and Financial Conduct Authority investigations. Susannah has been ranked as Band 1 for 'Financial Crime: Corporates' by Chambers UK from 2011 to date. Legal 500 recognises her in the 'Hall of Fame' for Regulatory Investigations and Corporate Crime (Advice to Corporates), describing her as "exceptional, world-class and the best financial crime specialist in the UK" (Legal 500 (2021)). She is ranked by Who's Who Legal as a Thought Leader for Investigations and Business Crime Defence (Corporates). She was appointed as one of the UK's first anti-corruption monitors for the purposes of a company's settlement with the World Bank and Serious Fraud Office and named in Global Investigation Review's inaugural "40 under 40" list of 'the world's leading young investigations specialists' in 2014. Susannah is a member of the Law Society of England and Wales’ Money Laundering Taskforce and the City of London Law Society Corporate Crime and Corruption Committee.