Stuart
Ponting

Stuart is a Regulatory Compliance and Investigations lawyer. Handling some of the UK’s most complex and sensitive topics for his clients, Stuart specialises in health and safety, food safety, environmental and anti-bribery legislation.

Widely regarded as a crisis management expert, Stuart is also a Solicitor-Advocate.

“Our clients are at the heart of everything we do. Whether it is advising them on how to comply with their regulatory obligations or defending them when they are being investigated for non-compliances, we are there, right alongside them, advising, supporting and guiding them at every step of the way.”

A solutions first approach

Stuart’s extensive experience over the last 20 years includes acting for a number of national and international household names, helping them understand their regulatory obligations, assisting them investigate when they have concerns about non-compliance, representing their interests when they are under regulatory investigation and defending them when they face further action brought by a regulator.

The most rewarding part of it all for Stuart, is finding the best solutions to often very difficult problems.

Stuart’s mandates are usually high profile, media sensitive, complex cases – so it’s important to balance many different factors to get the best possible outcome. This can be challenging, but, Stuart says, “working as part of the client team, supporting and challenging them at every step of the way gets the right result for everyone in the end”.

Stuart describes his working style as “hands-on, non-nonsense, totally focused on what is best for our clients with a sense of fun”.