Ross Dixon is a highly experienced and expert criminal litigator across the full range of business crime.
Committed, personable, and highly skilled, Ross takes a strategic approach to all his cases; he has achieved significant success in some of the UK’s most high profile white-collar crime matters.
Ross often represents business people – usually directors or senior executives – who require legal representation when the companies they work for are under investigation. He has acted in some of the UK’s most serious and complex fraud, false accounting and bribery and corruption cases. His financial crime practice includes tax investigations and concurrent regulatory investigations by professional bodies such as the SRA and the FRC.
Ross advises companies on crime-related legal issues including dawn raids, production and restraint orders, the execution of warrants, and the regulatory and strategic obligations arising from the discovery of potential wrongdoing within a company.
He has considerable experience of cases that involve parallel investigations in the UK and overseas, including the US, Europe, South East Asia and the Middle East and often works closely with lawyers based in other jurisdictions. His experience includes advice and representation for those facing requests for mutual legal assistance or extradition.
Ross also has great experience representing professionals, business people and their families caught up in general and serious crime cases, whether in police investigations or before the Magistrates’ and Crown Courts.
Ross is the Chair of Partners at Hickman & Rose. He joined the firm in 1995 and became a partner in 1998. He is an officer of the International Bar Association Crime Committee, a member of The Fraud Lawyers Association committee, and has served on the Law Society’s Money Laundering Task Force since 2012.