Samantha Cumming

SAMANTHA CUMMING focuses her practice on government litigation, white collar defense, and investigations. Samantha advises corporations in relation to matters which are often business critical, involving financial and reputational risk, and which relate to allegations of financial misconduct, corruption, fraud, and bribery.

Samantha’s extensive litigation experience includes acting on complex and multijurisdictional commercial litigation and judicial review in the High Court and the Court of Appeal, and arbitral proceedings conducted under ICC, LCIA, and UNCITRAL arbitration rules, with seats in London and Singapore.

Samantha has received acknowledgement from recent industry ranking guides:

• Legal 500 UK 2026 – Recommended for Fraud: white-collar crime (advice to individuals), as well as for regulatory investigations and corporate crime (advice to corporates).
• Legal 500 UK 2025 – Recommended in both the Financial Services – Contentious and the Regulatory Investigations and Corporate Crime (advice to corporates) categories, where clients note that “Samantha is exceptional,” “an up-and-comer, with a bright future ahead,” and that she “works around the clock to protect clients.”

Samantha’s extensive regulatory, investigations, and crisis management work includes acting in a number of major investigations, and advising on misconduct and reputational management.

Recent examples of Samantha’s work include representing:

• A Chinese video surveillance company on legal and regulatory issues.
• A multinational cosmetics marketing company on an investigation into wide-ranging allegations relating to labor practices, sexual assault, misappropriation of company funds, fraud, and bribery, involving multiple jurisdictions including Somaliland, the U.S., and the UK.
• Accountants in relation to professional disciplinary proceedings.
• Advising corporations including banks and pharmaceutical companies and senior individuals on matters relating to the UK Bribery Act 2010.
• A UK Fund in relation to allegations of market manipulation.
• A leading international hedge fund as secured creditor, concerning the restructuring of Premier Oil UK Plc.
• A major international dredging company in a multi-million-dollar arbitration before the International Chamber of Commerce (Singapore seat).
• A leading provider of anti-virus and VPN software in its breach of contract dispute with a multinational tech retailer.