Patrick Navein

Partner Litigation
Kirkland & Ellis International LLP

London +44 20 7469 2074

Patrick Navein

Overview

Patrick is an excellent operator: smart, thoughtful, responsive, strategic and easy to deal with. He's an up-and-coming star.” - Chambers UK, 2025

Patrick Navein is a partner in Kirkland’s Government, Regulatory & Internal Investigations Group, based in London. Patrick focuses his practice on corporate and financial crime matters, including representing and counseling companies on bribery and corruption, money laundering, economic sanctions and fraud matters. Patrick also advises on workplace compliance and non-financial misconduct investigations. 

Patrick has significant experience advising public companies and other multinational corporations with respect to complex internal, governmental and regulatory investigations (including those conducted by the UK Serious Fraud Office (SFO), the UK Financial Conduct Authority (FCA), HM Revenue & Customs (HMRC) and the UK Financial Reporting Council (FRC)).

More broadly, Patrick frequently counsels clients on highly sensitive legal and reputational issues. This includes advising on designing, implementing and assessing compliance programmes, as well as providing day to day counselling on a broad range of risk governance and compliance matters.

Patrick also represents senior individuals and compliance professionals who are facing investigation by government and regulatory agencies such as the SFO, FCA and FRC.

Patrick is recognised as a “Next Generation Partner” and a “Rising Star” in The Legal 500 UK (2022–2025), and as an “Up and Coming” Partner in Chambers & Partners (2025). He has been described by clients and peers as “an excellent operator: smart, thoughtful, responsive, strategic and easy to deal with”, offering “excellent and calm support even under intense pressure”, “always able to find a practical solution to seemingly insurmountable problems” and “an up-and-coming star”. 

More generally, the London team has been recognised as “by far the strongest team in the market on risk advisory”, a “very well drilled team” with “excellent depth of talent”, and as having “outstanding experience and attention to detail.” They are noted as “think[ing] of everything, in depth, many moves ahead of the opposition. If you want to win, this is the team to hire”, an “excellent hard working team with years of white collar expertise”.

Representing a global extractives company in respect of internal and governmental investigations into alleged bribery and corruption conducted by the SFO, the U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ), the U.S. Securities & Exchange Commission (SEC), the Australian Securities and Investments Commission, the Australian Federal Police.

Acting for an outsourcing company in respect of an SFO investigation into profit distribution.

Representing a Middle Eastern public institution in respect of an SFO investigation.

Advising a public company in respect of an internal bribery and corruption investigation, and related interactions with the SFO.

Representing a global financial institution in respect of historical French Parquet National Financier (PNF) and multilateral development bank investigations, and an ongoing Agence Française Anticorruption monitorship.

Representing an investment firm in respect on an ongoing PNF investigation.

Advising a public company in respect of an internal bribery and corruption investigation, and related interactions with the SFO.

Acting for a global manufacturing company in respect of an internal bribery and corruption investigation, including related self-reports to government agencies.

Acting for a FTSE 100 company in respect of multiple bribery and corruption investigations in Asia and Africa.

Advising a public company in respect of allegations of historic bribery and corruption in Europe.

Acting for a global medical device manufacturer in respect of an internal investigation into allegations of bribery, corruption and tax fraud.

Acting for a multinational technology company in relation to allegations of bribery in the Middle East, and the related SFO and DOJ investigations.

Advising the Audit Committee of an SEC-registered company in respect of an internal accounting investigation across a number of European subsidiaries.

Acting for a global medical devices company in respect of internal investigations relating to sales practices and accounting matters.

Advising the Audit Committee of an SEC-registered company in respect of an internal accounting investigation.

Acting for a public company in an internal investigation into allegations of fraud.

Acting for a multinational financial services company in respect of internal and regulatory investigations into allegations of workplace misconduct.

Representing a public company in respect of a high profile UK public inquiry.

Representing a multinational company in respect of a different UK public inquiry.

Representing various senior legal and compliance personnel, and senior executives in respect of SFO, FCA and DOJ investigations.

Representing an employee of a major investment bank in respect of bribery allegations made against their employer.

Representing a derivatives trader in respect of the SFO and FCA LIBOR investigations into alleged fraudulent benchmark manipulation.

Assisting a currency trader in respect of an investigation into alleged foreign exchange rate manipulation involving the SFO, FCA, DOJ and SEC.

Representing finance professionals in respect of investigations by the FRC.

Conducting a compliance risk assessment for a global medical device company across more than 10 countries.

Advising a range of UK and international companies on the application of the UK Bribery Act 2010, the UK Proceeds of Crime Act 2002, and associated policies, systems and controls.

K&L Gates LLP, London

  • Associate, 2016–2017

  • Trainee Solicitor, 2014–2016

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Thought Leadership

Publications

Co-Author, “The Practitioner's Guide to Global Investigations or GIR's The Practitioner's Guide to Global Investigations – Ninth Edition”, Global Investigations Review, November 13, 2024

Legal Reviewer, “Corporate Investigator’s Handbook”, Association of Corporate Investigator, November 10, 2023

Credentials

Admissions & Qualifications

  • 2016, Admitted to practice as a Solicitor of England and Wales

Education

  • BPP Law School, LondonLPCwith Distinction2014
  • BPP Law School, LondonGraduate Diploma in Lawwith Distinction2013
  • Newcastle UniversityEnglish LiteratureFirst Class Honours2012