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Peters & Peters Solicitors LLP Offices

Peters & Peters Solicitors LLP
15 FETTER LANE
LONDON
EC4A 1BW
England
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Maria Cronin

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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 > Crime, fraud and licensing > Fraud: white-collar crime (advice to individuals)

Peters & Peters Solicitors LLP acts for high-profile politicians, HNWIs, investors, and senior executives on the full spectrum of white-collar criminal matters, with notable strength in international and cross-border issues. Former CPS prosecutor Nick Vamos heads up the team, working alongside senior partner Michael O’Kane, described as ‘one of the best in London‘, who takes point on cartel, fraud, sanctions, and extradition matters. The ‘superbly efficient‘ Jasvinder Nakhwal handles asset seizure matters, and Neil Swift focuses on financial crime cases, while Maria Cronin is the name to note for money laundering, insider dealing, and criminal tax investigations. Another core individual is new partner Charlotte Tregunna, who specialises in internal and regulatory investigatory matters.

London > Risk advisory > Regulatory investigations and corporate crime (advice to corporates)

Peters & Peters Solicitors LLP fields a ‘superb team with wonderful talent at all levels’ that is routinely instructed to act on the full gamut of criminal disputes and investigations, as well as financial crime compliance issues. ‘Vastly experienced’ practice head Nick Vamos has a broad practice encompassing investment fraud, sanctions violations, and extradition issues, while senior partner Michael O’Kane leverages his in-agency experience as a prosecutor at the CPS to advise on the full range of corporate crime issues, particularly multijurisdictional and cross-border instructions. Maria Cronin, a ‘true expert in her field’, is the name to note for international corruption and money-laundering matters, while Jasvinder Nakhwal takes point on regulatory investigations, asset seizure matters, and extradition issues.

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