Florence Jerome-Ball is a member of the White Collar Defense & Investigations Practice in Greenberg Traurig’s United Arab Emirates office. She has wide-ranging experience assisting regional and international clients with a diverse array of cross-border financial crime and special projects cases across the region.
Florence has led on complex cases requiring balanced knowledge of practical local litigation support and international outlook and strategy. Her cases involve root issues around fraud, bribery and corruption, anti-money laundering, counter-terrorism financing, sanctions, mutual legal assistance, and extradition matters. She assists corporate clients in a variety of contexts, from facing enforcement action and through corporate transactions, to introducing preventive governance restructuring. She has assisted clients in developing and implementing response strategies that encompass criminal action, parallel civil proceedings, internal investigations, reporting to competent authorities, and compliance framework remediation.
As well as acting as local counsel for corporates, Florence also acts for UHNWI individuals facing cross-border criminal action and extradition from the UAE. She has a successful record in leading all aspects of defence work in such cases, including resisting extradition and securing bail, removing INTERPOL Red Notices and Diffusions and aiding with mutual legal assistance requests. She also helps clients to mitigate the adverse consequences of legal proceedings in respect to reputational defence work, and advocating in third party client continuance issues to maintain business relationships.
Additionally, with a robust cross-disciplinary background in law, politics, and security studies, Florence brings a nuanced geopolitical perspective to cases, which are frequently shaped by diplomatic and foreign policy developments. She has acted on several highly sensitive instructions for foreign governments requiring advice based on local constitutional and criminal law, and fluctuating policy positions.
