Understanding Legal Privilege in Financial Services Investigations

Introduction

Legal Privilege remains a hot topic and the subject of multiple court judgments each year. The increasing automation of systems and processes, use of AI and apps and platforms for collaboration and messaging can give rise to new legal privilege challenges and risks.

This webinar will help those conducting internal investigations in financial services firms to understand the scope and types of legal privilege; how issues of legal privilege and associated risks might arise in internal investigations and in correspondence with regulators; and provide practical tips on how best to protect privileged communications and manage regulatory and/or litigation risk.

What you will learn

This short webinar will cover the following:

• Types, purpose, and scope of legal privilege, including under section 413 of FSMA
• How legal privilege can be lost or waived
• Leading caselaw authorities and recent relevant judgments
• When and how issues of legal privilege might arise in internal investigations and considerations when addressing them
• Why and how the increasing automation of systems and processes, use of AI and apps and collaboration/messaging platforms can give rise to new legal privilege challenges and risks
• Managing legal privilege in the context of correspondence with regulators
• Practical tips on how best to protect privileged communications and manage regulatory and/or litigation risk

This pre-recorded webinar will be available to view from Monday 16th March 2026

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