Recommended as Leading Junior in the fields of Crime and Fraud:

RECENT CASES

• Advising ex News of the World editor re Leveson Inquiry and contempt of Parliament
• Advising ex-jurisdictional oil company re bribery and money laundering
• Representing Eddie Shah at the Old Bailey
• Representing a Director of a private company re fraud charges
• Advising the CEO of a major mining company (SFO investigation)
• Representing Thames Water Utilities Ltd
• Successfully represented Vincent Tchenguiz in judicial review of SFO investigation
• Successfully represented international developer in the Turks and Caicos Islands over corruption charges
• Advising Director of one of the world's leading maritime services companies re overseas bribery (internal/SFO investigation)
• FSA v SC: Representing a hedge fund manager (ex-jurisdiction) re market abuse before the Tribunal (FSA proceedings)
• Advising leading supermarket re bribery prosecution
• R v Khan: Representing the Director of a commercial property company charged with fraud
• Advised employee of an international construction company re SFO investigation into overseas bribery (case dropped)
• Advised Directors of carbon credit trading company re FSA investigation (case dropped)
• Advised re a Defamation matter
• Advising an overseas construction company re fatality at the Liquid Natural Gas terminal (Health and Safety Executive investigation)
• Successfully appealed sentence in lead authority on environmental pollution: EA v Thames Water [2010] Env. L.R. 34

OTHER NOTABLE CASES

Fraud/Financial Crime

• Represented ex-Icelandic banking executives (SFO investigation)
• R v Heywood (2012): Represented a senior solicitor charged with fraud and money laundering
• R v Forsyth [2011] 2 W.L.R.277: represented the ex CEO of Mabey & Johnson, including before the Supreme Court re UN sanctions busting (SFO prosecution)
• R v Kleijn (2011): Secured the acquittal of a management consultant accused of industrial fraud
• R v Gohil (2011): Represented a solicitor accused of laundering the proceeds of overseas political corruption through multiple jurisdictions (City of London Overseas Corruption Unit investigation)
• DEFRA v Owen (2010): Negotiated one of the first successful "plea agreements" under the AG guidelines in the largest case of fraud ever brought by DEFRA
• Advised Karren Brady, former director of Birmingham City Football Club: letter of representation halted proceedings before charge (2009)
• Advised Director of Merlin Biosciences re SFO Investigation (case dropped, 2009)
• SFO v Bright (2008): Defended ex-CEO of reinsurance giant IIC (the "stock market's darling") which collapsed with debts of £1bn (SFO prosecution)
• R v Dr S (2008): Secured the acquittal of the country's top breast surgeon accused of medical insurance fraud
• R v Reichwald (CA, 2007): Successfully appealed conviction, via the Criminal Cases Review Commission, of a London businessman for multi-million pound international money laundering
• R v Wood (2007): Secured a non-custodial sentence for a Director of a US company for market abuse in the UK
• R v Apostolopoulos (2007): successfully prosecuted the first Greek national to be extradited under EAW for large-scale money laundering (included the purchase of an airline)
• R v Ahmet (CA, 2006): Successfully appealed money laundering sentence
• R v Azari (2006): Represented dentist in NHS claims fraud
• SFO v White (2006): Represented accountant accused of multi million pound Ponzi fraud
• R v Canhams (2005): Successfully prosecuted fraud on City of London charity; included advising on Mutual Assistance with Eire (City of London Police Fraud Squad investigation)
• HMCE v Namer (2005): Defended “the architect” of a multi-million pound MTIC carousel fraud
• SFO v Feldman (2003): Secured the acquittal of a solicitor accused of laundering £16m
• SFO v Barea (2002): Defended in the conspiracy to defraud St Paul’s Cathedral of £100m

Crime

• R v DD (2012): Secured the acquittal of a lorry driver carrying £1.8m drugs into the UK
• JCL (2012): Secured only non-custodial sentence for violent disorder in student riots
• R v ME (2010): Letter of representations led to charges being dropped against a high profile singer
• R v Jones (2009): Secured acquittal of close protection officer to high profile client
• R v Rodriguez-Brito (2008): Prosecuting, secured conviction in a knife attack (defendant represented by a QC)
• R v Payne (2007): Prosecuting, secured the first conviction of a British soldier under War Crimes legislation in high profile Court Martial lasting six months
• R v Shane (2006): Successfully defended police officer accused of manslaughter
• R v Mollison (2006): Represented a police officer on misconduct charges (unlawful accessing of police databases); case included substantial RIPA applications; secured non-custodial sentence
• R v Goztas (2006): Prosecuting, secured conviction of every defendant in multi million pound international drug smuggling ring (NCS investigation)
• R v Falkowski (2005): Successfully defended psychiatrist accused of drugging and raping a patient’s girlfriend (resulting in the subsequent prosecution and conviction of the complainant for perverting the course of justice, made into the film "U Be Dead")
• R v Butt (2005): Prosecuting, represented the CPS in the High Court in multi-handed, cross-jurisdictional confiscation/divorce proceedings
• R v Khan (2005): Prosecuting, secured murder conviction in “honour” killing
• R v Jones (2005): Represented long-serving police officer who pleaded guilty to involvement with London gang; included substantial RIPA applications
• R v Penny: (2004) Prosecuted gang of armed robbers targeting high value goods in Heathrow warehouses (Flying Squad investigation)
• DPP v Camberwell Green Youth Court (Admin Court, 2003): Successfully resisted judicial review of committal proceedings
• R v Farry (2003): Defended in a £7m armed robbery conspiracy
• R v Copeland (1999): Prosecuted the London nail bomber

Regulatory and Disciplinary

• FSA: experienced before the RDC and Upper Tribunal, advises regularly re FSA proceedings
• AADB: advised re prosecution of Deloitte re MG Rover collapse
• GMC: instructed in over fifty cases including the most serious and complex, e.g. Dr M (2010) - secured the erasure of a GP re the over-administration of morphine to the terminally ill (18 patients); Dr T (2009) - secured the erasure of a GP in a case of historical sexual assaults (10 complainants); Mr G (2009) - secured findings of operating beyond competence against a leading breast surgeon (10 patients)
• GDC: instructed in dozens of cases at all stages of proceedings
• Police disciplinary: recently secured the acquittal of a chief inspector accused of gross misconduct

Health and Safety

• Currently advising a company re death at work HSE investigation

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