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Nicholas Medcroft KC
Position
Nicholas Medcroft KC’s practice spans commercial dispute resolution, banking, fraud, corporate crime, financial services, professional negligence and professional discipline.
He is regularly instructed in major commercial disputes, especially those with a financial services or fraud/breach of trust element. He is particularly well known for his expertise in POCA and money laundering and regularly acts for financial institutions caught up in fraud.
He has extensive experience of big-ticket disciplinary and regulatory proceedings and has acted in many of the major corporate collapses and accounting scandals in recent times.
He is recommended as a leader in his field in the legal directories, where he is described as “a fantastic legal mind”; “a great court performer”; “a great strategic thinker and a complete team player”; “he can operate seamlessly across commercial law, professional regulation and criminal law.”
His notable cases include MG Rover; BHS; the collapse of Carillion plc; the collapse of Silentnight; FSA v Alexander (the first market abuse case to be brought by the FSA in the Chancery Division); the Marrache fraud litigation in Gibraltar; Shah v HSBC Private Bank (the leading case on the conflict between a bank’s duties to its customers and its duties under POCA); N v Royal Bank of Scotland plc (whether POCA excludes the court’s jurisdiction) and the Potters Bar and Tebay rail accidents.
Career
Called 1998; QC 2019; Recorder 2018.
Memberships
COMBAR, Financial Services Lawyers Association.
Lawyer Rankings
London Bar > Proceeds of crime (POCA) and asset forfeiture
(Leading Silks)Ranked: Tier 3Nicholas Medcroft KC –Fountain Court Chambers ‘A very strong advocate, knowledgeable and bright.‘
London Bar > Professional disciplinary and regulatory law
(Leading Silks)Ranked: Tier 3Nicholas Medcroft KC – Fountain Court Chambers ‘He keeps a cool head, he is all over the detail, and his advocacy is compelling and faultless.‘
Fountain Court Chambers is characterized for having ‘several very experienced and effective leading counsel for professional discipline cases involving solicitors‘. In recent work highlights, Richard Coleman KC led Marianne Butler in representing a former law firm partner before the Solicitors Disciplinary Tribunal, in relation to the Solicitors Regulation Authority’s allegation that she had allowed the firm to provide banking facilities through its client account. In another matter, Nicholas Medcroft KC represented the FRC in its proceedings against KPMG in relation to its audits of Carillion.
London Bar > Financial services regulation
(Leading Silks)Ranked: Tier 2Nicholas Medcroft KC –Fountain Court Chambers ‘Nicholas is a very strong advocate and extremely bright.’
London Bar > Business and regulatory crime (including global investigations)
(Leading Silks)Ranked: Tier 3Nicholas Medcroft KC –Fountain Court Chambers ‘A real expert in the area of money laundering, from both a litigation and advisory point of view. Nick is a pleasure to work with and a “go to” choice for the intersection of financial services and financial crime.’