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Peters & Peters Solicitors LLP Offices
15 FETTER LANE
LONDON
EC4A 1BW
England
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Maria Cronin
Work Department
Business Crime
Position
Maria is a Partner in the Business Crime Department. She specialises in financial crime, with a firmly established expertise in international corruption and money laundering investigations. The majority of her cases are international and involve working with teams of professional advisors in multiple jurisdictions. Maria advises both corporates and senior executives on business critical issues and strategy. She has extensive experience advising on, and carrying out, complex and often sensitive internal investigations both here and overseas. Both as part of internal investigations and separately, she is asked to advise on compliance policies and procedures, self-disclosure and self-reporting, as well as liaising with regulators and enforcement bodies. She has particular expertise in cash seizures, asset restraint, frozen accounts, forfeiture and confiscation; often as part of a corruption or money laundering investigation. Recent headline cases include: acting for a multinational company in a global corruption investigation, acting for prominent individuals in respect of allegations of corruption both here and overseas, acting for a former minister in connection with allegations of money laundering, acting for a CEO in the Petrobras investigation; and acting for a corporate and senior executive in successfully defending a private prosecution. She regularly speaks and writes on bribery and corruption, money laundering and other financial crime risks, both here and overseas.
Career
Qualified at Peters & Peters Solicitors LLP (2010); Partner at Peters & Peters Solicitors LLP (2018-present).
Languages
French, Russian and German.
Memberships
Member of the Advisory Committee of the Fraud Advisory Panel; President of the UK National Committee of the UIA (Union International des Avocats); former President of the Criminal Commission of the UIA (Union International des Avocats); Member of the Fraud Lawyers Association; Member of the Franco-British Lawyers Society.
Education
University of Cambridge (2005, BA Modern and Medieval Languages); City University (2006, GDL); BPP (2007, BVC)
Lawyer Rankings
London > Corporate and commercial > Financial services: contentious
Peters & Peters Solicitors LLP brings a ‘strategic’ approach to actual and potential investigations and proceedings in the financial services sector, including those conducted by the FCA, PRA and SFO. Neil Swift brings his ‘great experience and judgement‘ to cases concerning both individual and corporate clients. Other key senior contacts include Anna Bradshaw, Maria Cronin and Nick Vamos.
London > Risk advisory > Regulatory investigations and corporate crime (advice to corporates)
Peters & Peters Solicitors LLP has extensive experience of acting on behalf of corporations in fraud, corruption, and money laundering proceedings, and international criminal investigations. The firm represents a client-base from a wide array of industries, ranging from energy and mining to retail and finance, and has grown its presence within the sanctions space, particularly since the start of the Ukraine war in February 2022. Nick Vamos heads the team, focusing on export controls and related offences, whilst the ‘superb’ Michael O’Kane has vast expertise in advising companies in high-profile international business crime cases. Jasvinder Nakhwal is an expert on INTERPOL and extradition matters, while Maria Cronin and Anna Bradshaw are noted for their money laundering and insider dealing expertise.
Lawyer Rankings
- Regulatory investigations and corporate crime (advice to corporates) London > Risk advisory
- Financial services: contentious London > Corporate and commercial
Top Tier Firm Rankings
- Crime, fraud and licensing > Crime: general
- Crime, fraud and licensing > Fraud: white-collar crime (advice to individuals)
Firm Rankings
- Dispute resolution > Commercial litigation: mid-market
- Crime, fraud and licensing > Fraud: civil
- Crime, fraud and licensing > Private prosecutions
- Risk advisory > Regulatory investigations and corporate crime (advice to corporates)
- Corporate and commercial > VAT and indirect tax
- Dispute resolution > Public international law
- Dispute resolution > Tax litigation and investigations
- Corporate and commercial > Financial services: contentious