The Legal 500

Position

Specialist areas of practice include tax and finance – investigations, disputes, disclosures; proceeds of crime; business crime and corporate defence; commercial and investor fraud; financial services regulation; professional negligence; regulatory and disciplinary; administrative law; human rights and civil liberties. Important cases: Christopher Lunn & Co v HMRC ([2011] EWHC 240 (Admin) multi-million pound alleged tax fraud); SEC v Manterfield ([2010] 1 WLR 172, Lydia Capital hedge fund, alleged investment fraud, cross-border freezing order); Opportunity Unique Fund (2009, international asset restraint, alleged tax fraud, mutual assistance); ARA v Szepietowski ([2008] Lloyd’s Rep FC 10, civil recovery, alleged tax and mortgage fraud, £30m). ‘High profile’ advisory cases include advice in connection with the Britannia Building Society tax investigation, the Al Yamamah & Iraq Oil for Food corruption investigations. For reasons of professional confidence, it is not possible to identify clients in other leading cases.

Career

Called 1980; Silk 2003. Standing Counsel (Criminal) to the Commissioners of Inland Revenue at the Central Criminal Court and London Crown Courts 1991-2003; visiting professor, Cass Business School (City University) 2003-06; visiting Professor of Law, London School of Economics 2006 to date; general editor, Lloyds Law Reports: Financial Crime, 2008 to date; Commissioner to the Bill of Rights Commission, 2011. Publications: ‘The Anti-Money Laundering Disclosure Regime and the Collection of Tax in the UK’ [2010] 55(3) British Tax Review 1; ‘Law and Regulation for Global Financial Markets, Enforcing the New Regime’ [2010] 4(4) Law of Financial Markets Review 346; ‘Fraud Reporting: A Shared Responsibility’, Fraud Advisory Panel, 2010; ‘Fraud and Financial Crime’, Research Note, Policy Exchange, 2010; ‘Arlidge & Parry on Fraud’, 3rd ed, Sweet & Maxwell, 2007, chapter contributor: Tax Fraud; ‘A Practitioner’s Guide to International Money Laundering Law and Regulation’, City & Financial, 2003, chapter contributor: EU Directives; ‘The Law of Investor Protection’, Sweet & Maxwell, 1st ed 1997, 2nd ed 2003, co-author; ‘International Guide to Money Laundering Law and Practice’, 3rd ed, 2010, Bloomsbury Professional, chapter contributor: Confiscating the Proceeds of Crime; ‘Cordery on Solicitors’, Butterworths Looseleaf, chapter contributor: Money Laundering 8.

Member

Administrative Law Bar Association; Commercial Fraud Lawyers Association; Commercial Law Bar Association; Financial Services Lawyers Association; Fraud Advisory Panel; International Bar Association; Liberty; Proceeds of Crime Lawyers Association; Revenue Bar Association; Society of Trust and Estate Practitioners; committee member, IBA Anti-Money Laundering Forum, 2006 to date; honorary steering group member, London Fraud Forum, 2007 to date; steering group member, Assets Recovery Agency, 2003-06; legal panel member, Accountancy & Actuarial Discipline Board, 2005-08; trustee director, Fraud Advisory Panel, 2006-10; Chairman of Research, Society of Conservative Lawyers, 2006-10.

Practice Areas

Crime - corporate; Fraud: civil; Tax - corporate