15 FETTER LANE, LONDON, EC4A 1BW
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- Work 020 7822 7777
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Monty Raphael
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Work Department
Fraud and regulatory.
Position
Immediate past senior partner, now a full-time special counsel, engaged in all aspects of fraud and regulatory matters for more than 40 years and widely regarded as the doyen of the business crime legal practice area. Areas of work include: fraud, including tax and customs fraud, securities infractions, regulatory enquiries, cross-border and asset tracing, corruption, money laundering issues covering compliance advice, crisis management and defence. Clients include: countries, corporates and individuals, financial institutions, multinationals and some of the largest professional practices in the UK, with his work being frequently international in scope. Among the numerous high-profile cases that he has been involved in during his career are ‘Cash For Honours’, Lloyds of London, Guinness, Barlow Clowes, Blue Arrow, BCCI, Maxwell, Wickes, Versailles, OIC for food and numerous others that have not come into the public domain.
Career
Articled Peters & Peters; qualified 1962; partner 1965; past-president London Criminal Courts Solicitors’ Association. In the 1980s he served as a deputy Metropolitan Stipendiary Magistrate, before being appointed as an assistant recorder of the Crown Court. When not practising, travels the world extensively lecturing and training governmental and commercial organisations concerned with fraud, money laundering and corruption, as well as on missions dealing with his specialist areas. Author and contributor to a wide range of publications in respect of these and related issues, including co-authoring a chapter on money laundering and human rights for ‘A Practitioner’s Guide to UK Money Laundering Law and Regulation’ (City and Financial); joint contributor of the chapter on money laundering in the Oxford University Press looseleaf ‘Fraud: Criminal Law and Procedure’; editor, ‘Blackstone’s Guide to the Corruption Act’ (pending). Visiting Professor of Law at Kingston University.
Languages
Conversational French and German.
Member
The Law Society of England and Wales; Founded the Business Crime Committee of the International Bar Association and until 2006 chaired its Anti-Corruption Working Group; American Bar Association; a director of The Fraud Advisory Panel; a director of Transparency International UK; Honorary Solicitor to The Howard League; London Criminal Courts Solicitors’ Association (past president and life member); Society of Trust and Estate Practitioners; British Syrian Society; Customs Practitioners Group.
Education
Davenant Foundation; University College, London (LLB Hons).
Leisure
Reading, vigorously thinking about exercise; member RAC Club.
Practice Areas
Crime - corporate; Fraud; Tax - VAT, C&E
