The Legal 500

Work Department

Domestic and international business crime and regulation.

Position

Partner, in the business crime team, Jasvinder is renowned for her specialism in defending fraud-related criminal prosecutions and providing regulatory/compliance advice. She has particularly strong and extensive experience in extradition and mutual legal assistance matters, and in cartel investigations undertaken by various competition authorities, including the European Commission, Office of Fair Trading, the US department of justice and the Canadian Competition Bureau. Jasvinder acted for the managing director of Dunlop Oil and Marine Ltd, the first person to be charged with the UK criminal cartel offence, and assisted in closing the innovative ‘Marine Hose Deal’ with the US Department of Justice. She also represented two of the four British Airways executives facing allegations of price fixing with Virgin Atlantic Airways, in the first contested trial of its kind in the UK, resulting in dramatic acquittals for all four individuals. Also most recently, Jasvinder successfully resisted an extradition request from the Russian Federation for the extradition of the owner of a leading Russian production company. She has similarly successfully defended a number of high-profile Russian nationals in extradition matters where the individuals are wanted by the Government of the Russian Federation on politically motivated criminal charges in the Russian Federation, including those relating to the well-known Yukos oil prosecutions against Mikhail Khordokovsky. Jasvinder continues to be instructed in other high-profile extradition matters involving other jurisdictions. Her practice has a strong multi-jurisdictional aspect. Over the years, as part of her experience in dealing with a wide range of other fraud-related matters, Jasvinder has acted in POCA 2002 cash seizure cases and their resulting civil forfeiture proceedings and parallel criminal investigations. She has also advised in money laundering cases, cases before the Solicitors’ Disciplinary Tribunal, investigations by the Serious Fraud Office, HM Revenue & Customs, the Ministry of Defence, and has acted in Inquests and Independent Inquiries. Jasvinder is a contributing author to ‘The Law of Criminal Cartels Practice and Procedure’ (published September 2009, Oxford University Press), the first work to focus exclusively on the UK cartel offence from the practitioner’s perspective.

Career

Trained Peters and Peters; qualified 2002; partner in the business crime department 2010.

Member

The Extradition Lawyers’ Association (committee member); the Competition Lawyers’ Association; the Law Society International Section; the City of Westminster and Holborn Law Society; Amnesty International; the Society of Asian Lawyers (committee member).

Education

Oxford University (1995); Oxford Institute of Legal Practice (1998, LPC).

Practice Areas

Crime - corporate; EU and competition; Fraud