Philip Ryan
Partner, Dispute Resolution and Compliance, Shoosmiths LLP
Philip is a specialist compliance lawyer who advises businesses on complying with the UK’s increasing regulatory burden and during regulatory interventions and prosecutions. He balances the need for a sensible, calm approach to crisis management against the need to defend clients vigorously to gain effective outcomes and to secure the right solution for clients in short timeframes, thereby minimising cost and negative impact. He has extensive experience of: implementing compliance programmes and procedures; advising on the practical implementation of complex new regulations; and of defending companies and senior managers accused of being in breach of UK and EU compliance regulations in the criminal courts.
He has prosecuted for the HSE and been seconded to the Tesco Store Ops and McDonald’s Legal Teams, giving him a genuinely hands-on, commercial approach to regulatory compliance in complex consumer and business supply chains. Philip is described as a “standout name” in Legal 500 and he heads the ‘excellent team’ in the South East with rankings for both Product Liability and Health & Safety.