Sam Tate

Partner at RPC

Speaker

Sam Tate leads RPC's the White-Collar Crime & Compliance team. He is an expert in white-collar crime and crisis and risk management, with extensive practical experience of complicated cross-border investigations and crime prevention programs. He specialises in implementing compliance programmes within multi-national companies, resolving complex corruption, sanctions and compliance concerns and leveraging the latest developments in financial crime technology.

He is a recognised thought leader in financial crime and third party risk management, and is Ranked in the distinguished Chambers and Partners Crisis and Risk Management guide in recognition his expertise in this area.

Sam's past experience includes senior roles in monitorship teams appointed by the US Department of Justice, Financial Conduct Authority and US Federal Reserve Board to oversee financial crime compliance at two global banks.

His expertise in the field of corporate crime and its practical implications for corporates is so sought after that he has been co-opted as an expert onto the sub-committee of the City of London Law Society reviewing the government guidance to the failure to prevent fraud offence introduced in the Economic Crime and Corporate Transparency Act 2023. In the run up to the coming into force of the new offence, Sam has been consulted by numerous FTSE 30 companies to provide advice on their preparations. He is also the only law firm partner to have been invited by the Home Office to contribute to the UK government's 2024 national, multi-year anti-corruption strategy.

He is a regular speaker and moderator at industry and government events and was previously Head of Anti-corruption in EMEA for a global financial crime consultancy. Sam is also a co-author of the leading UK anti-corruption compliance text book “Bribery: a Compliance Handbook” published by Bloomsbury.