Meet the team

Joshua Domb is the Founder and Managing Partner of Gen-R Law. He leads the firm’s ESG, Compliance and Investigations practice.

Joshua advises clients on matters across the spectrum of ESG issues, with a particular focus on greenwashing, supply chain risk, human rights and modern slavery, the integration of ESG into business operations, ESG and climate literacy training and sustainability reporting.

Joshua also regularly advises clients on corporate governance, with a particular focus on bribery, fraud, money laundering and tax evasion.  He has extensive experience conducting related risk assessments, designing and implementing tailored compliance programmes and training senior leadership teams on these important topics.

Before setting up Gen-R Law, Joshua trained and qualified as a White Collar Crime lawyer at DLA Piper. He joined Paul Hastings as an associate, before moving to McDermott Will & Emery as a senior associate. During this time, he regularly advised leading corporates and high-profile individuals on domestic and international issues involving allegations of bribery, corruption, money laundering, fraud and tax evasion. Joshua uses this deep regulatory expertise to inform his approach to advising on how corporate shortcomings on matters related to climate change and ESG can translate into legal and regulatory risks.

Joshua’s excellence in ESG has been recognised on numerous occasions, including as a finalist for both the 2024 Legal ESG “Paul Watchman Young Lawyer” award, and Legal 500, 2025 “ESG: Rising Star” award. He has spoken at numerous conferences and on podcasts about the role of ESG in the legal profession and regularly publishes articles focusing on developments in these spaces.

Representative ESG experience

•  Designing and delivering a greenwashing training programme for a FTSE 250 company, including the preparation of supporting takeaway materials.

•  Delivering a half-day ‘Climate and ESG Masterclass’ training session to the board of a 500+ person LLP.

•  Preparing a ‘Supplier Code of Conduct’ and related suite of contractual clauses covering the full spectrum of ESG topics for an international cosmetics company.

•  Advising the Sustainability Committee of a software company on how to set up an effective corporate sustainability programme, including providing supporting training.

•  Providing a range of training to the Sustainability Working Group of one of the ‘Big Six’ advertising agencies.

•  Preparing a refreshed set of anti-corruption clauses and reviewing and updating the compliance risk assessment matrix used when onboarding third parties for an international FMCG company.

•  Conducting a (i) bribery; and (ii) money laundering focused risk assessment for a fast-growth (1,000+ person) tech start-up. Preparing and implementing a suite of related policies and procedures (including an Employee Handbook and Code of Conduct) and delivering supporting training, including a two-hour compliance workshop for the Senior Leadership Team.

Representative investigations experience

•  Advising several high-profile individual clients in relation to UK Serious Fraud Office (SFO) investigations concerning suspicions of bribery in the oil & gas industry in various jurisdictions throughout the Middle East.

•  Advising a FTSE 100 gaming company in relation to an investigation by HMRC concerning allegations of money laundering, bribery and corruption in Turkey by a legacy group business.

•  Acting as counsel to a major investment fund in relation to an SFO raid and investigation concerning a wholly owned subsidiary involved in the fuel distribution and biofuel industries.

•  Acting for a leading international media company on a complex, cross-border investigation, concerning multiple serious allegations including potential corruption of public bidding procedures in Brazil, possible anti-trust issues, substantial internal frauds and conflicts of interests and multiple potential internal controls issues.

•  Advising a Fortune 500 company on a circa £400,000 fraud committed against it by an employee, including securing asset freezing orders and other injunctive relief.

•  Advising a former employee of a global oil company in relation to a high-profile criminal trial in Italy.

•  Assisted a global team managing a Department of Justice imposed compliance monitor in relation to a global aircraft manufacturer.

Qualifications

•  Admitted as a solicitor of the Supreme Court of England and Wales, September 2015

•  LPC – Distinction – College of Law, September 2012 – June 2013

•  Law LLB – First Class – University of Nottingham, September 2009 – June 2012

Contact details

Email: jdomb@genrlaw.com
Tel: +44 (0)203 608 9908
Mob: +44 (0)7388 778 027