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Peters & Peters Solicitors LLP

15 FETTER LANE, LONDON, EC4A 1BW
Tel:
Work 020 7822 7777
Fax:
Fax 020 7822 7788
DX:
407 LONDON CHANCERY LANE
Web:
www.petersandpeters.com
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Sarah Gabriel

Tel:
Work +44 20 7822 7777
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Peters & Peters Solicitors LLP

Work Department

Commercial litigation/international and domestic civil fraud.

Position

Partner recommended in leading directories who deals with a wide variety of complex commercial disputes, with particular expertise in international civil fraud cases and company investigations. Has extensive experience of emergency procedures. Acts for both claimants and defendants and also receives requests to act as a supervising solicitor. Sarah has acted in many major international cases involving asset tracing and recovery, including having conducted and co-ordinated tracing litigation in Switzerland, Spain, Liechtenstein, Austria, the Channel Islands, Malta, Gibraltar, the Caribbean and Micronesia. Recent cases include: litigation against various financial institutions relating to futures trading; defending various applications to disqualify directors in the BVI, successfully discharging the appointment of receivers over two companies following a hearing before the Eastern Caribbean Court of Appeal; acting for various plcs in internal investigations; acting in a substantial corruption case involving litigation in the Caribbean and the US; advising in a complex and international private trust case; acting for an individual in relation to various claims arising out of the administration of a substantial group of companies. Past cases include Grupo Torras, Peter Young/Morgan Grenfell, Credit Suisse v Cuoghi, Marc Rich, CWS/ Andrew Regan/Zimet and the Secretary of State for Health’s cartel fraud case. Sarah also specialises in tax work, acting for corporate and professional clients in HMRC investigations and prosecutions. Acted for Optigen and Fulcrum in the landmark European Court of Justice case in 2006.

Career

Trained Freshfields; qualified 1990; assistant solicitor Freshfields 1990-93; associate Peters & Peters 1994-97; partner 1997.

Member

London Litigation Solicitors Association.

Practice Areas

Fraud; Litigation - commercial; Tax - VAT, C&E

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