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EC4A 1BW
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Anna Bradshaw
Work Department
Business crime
Position
Anna is a Partner in the Business Crime Department. She advises individuals and corporates on all aspects of financial crime and economic sanctions risk, compliance and enforcement. She’s highly ranked by the leading directories and has been described as “a well-known expert on anti-money laundering”.
Who’s Who Legal ranks her as among the world’s leading lawyers for Business Crime Defence: Individuals (2021 edition), as a “Future Leader” for Investigations (2020 and 2021 editions) and as a “Global Elite Thought Leader” on International Sanctions for Trade & Customs (2019, 2020 and 2021 editions), describing her as “highly knowledgeable in the area” with “a real depth of expertise”. Anna is an Associate Fellow of the Royal United Services Institute, assisting the Centre for Financial Crime and Security Studies with research on US, EU and UK sanctions. She sits on the Law Society’s EU Committee since 2011 and has given evidence in Parliament on EU criminal law and criminal justice cooperation matters. She is Consultation Secretary to the Fraud Lawyers’ Association and consultant adviser to Thomson Reuters Practical Law as a member of the Consultation Board for Business Crime & Investigations, and co-editor of the GIR Guide to Sanctions (1st and 2nd editions). She holds a doctorate in anti-money laundering regulation.
Career
Qualified at Peters & Peters 2007; Senior Associate at Herbert Smith Freehills LLP 2012-2016; Of Counsel at Peters & Peters 2016-2017; Partner at Peters & Peters 2017-present.
Memberships
Sanctions Practitioners’ Group (SPG)
Fraud Lawyers’ Association (FLA)
Society of Legal Scholars (SLS)
Defence Extradition Lawyers’ Forum (DELF)
Education
University of East Anglia (2000 LLB); University of Edinburgh (2002 LLM); University of Westminster (2006 PhD)
Lawyer Rankings
London > Corporate and commercial > Financial services: contentious
The ‘excellent’ practice at boutique litigation firm Peters & Peters Solicitors LLP provides ‘user friendly and knowledgeable’ advice to corporate entities and individuals subject to criminal, regulatory and internal investigations, both domestically and abroad. The ‘outstanding’ Anna Bradshaw is ‘highly skilled at running complex cases’, including those that involve financial crime or that overlap with sanctions violations. Team head Neil Swift is particularly skilled at representing individuals accused of financial crime, both at an early stage through an internal investigation, as well as in enforcement proceedings brought by agencies including the SFO and FCA.
London > Dispute resolution > Public international law
Specialising in high-stakes international disputes, Peters & Peters Solicitors LLP delivers ‘efficient and top-quality advice’. In addition to the practice’s expertise in UK sanctions (including challenges) and export controls, it has a significant track record in successfully challenging INTERPOL Red Notices. Anna Bradshaw advises individuals and corporations on financial crime and economic sanctions-related risks, as well as compliance and enforcement issues; business crime specialist Michael O’Kane
is ‘an extremely effective advocate’; and Alistair Jones represents sanctioned parties in designation challenges.
London > Crime, fraud and licensing > Crime: general
Led by former CPS Head of Special Crime Nick Vamos, Peters & Peters Solicitors LLP‘s Business Crime & Investigations team is engaged by a wide array of clients for its capabilities regarding serious and complex general crime, and is especially noted for its expertise in pre-charge work. Senior partner Michael O’Kane fields decades of experience in high-level, international matters, and is particularly recommended for his experience in work concerning fraud, corruption, cartels, sanctions, and extradition. Anna Bradshaw is noted for her financial crime acumen, while Jasvinder Nakhwal‘s track record includes numerous high-profile extradition cases. Of counsel Rachel Cook is a highly active figure noted for her capabilities in particularly sensitive cases.
Lawyer Rankings
- Crime: general London > Crime, fraud and licensing
- Public international law London > Dispute resolution
- 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
- Corporate and commercial > Financial services: contentious