Stewart Hey > Charles Russell Speechlys LLP > London, England > Lawyer Profile

Suzanne Marriott heads up the art and luxury practice at Charles Russell Speechlys LLP. The able team regularly advises several international contemporary and major government institutions. It is adept at advising on diverse matters, such as NFTs, and often advises on auction law both for and against auction houses in the UK and internationally. The group has been busy advising collectors and dealers on a variety of contentious and non-contentious matters. Robert Blower is particularly skilled at advising on acceptance in lieu and inheritance tax conditional exemption applications for estates with significant art collections. Stewart Hey is another notable member of the practice.

Charles Russell Speechlys LLP‘s ‘fraud team has an amazing skillset and wide-ranging technical competence and expertise’. The London team regularly pursues and defends large-scale civil fraud claims (and related asset recovery actions) across multiple jurisdictions. It also carries out investigations where clients (including insolvency office holders) suspect they are victims to wrongdoing. The group additionally has extensive experience in obtaining and resisting emergency relief in relation to cross-border fraud cases, including freezing orders, injunctions, and search orders, and it liaises with criminal authorities and law enforcement agencies where appropriate. The practice’s client base ranges from multinational businesses, regulators, central banks and governments, to corporate investors, insolvency practitioners, and HNW individuals and their family offices. Team head Stewart Hey handles a range of cross-border fraud disputes and investigations; Charlotte Pender‘s track record encompasses high-value banking and fraud cases; Caroline Greenwell‘s disputes work covers misrepresentations, wrongful acts, civil fraud asset tracing, and bribery and corruption allegations; and Rhys Novak ‘vigorously seeks to advance his client’s interests’. Other key team members are Abigail Rushton, Lucy Wicksteed and Peter Carlyon, who all act in multi-jurisdictional fraud cases.

Charles Russell Speechlys LLP fields an ‘extremely dedicated team that goes the extra mile for clients’. With the majority of the group’s caseload containing international elements, the 42-strong commercial dispute resolution’s practice represents private banks, corporations, regulators, foreign governments, celebrities and ultra-HNW individuals in major disputes. It has notable experience in company and shareholder-related disputes, as well as sector expertise in technology, engineering, telecoms, sports, and financial services, along with mining, energy, aviation, professional services and retail. Charlotte Pender ‘leads the team brilliantly‘; Stewart Hey is the firm’s fraud, asset recovery and investigations head; Rhys Novak‘s commercial and corporate disputes practice covers fraud, bribery, sanctions and financial services; and Edward Craig is ‘a highly experienced and capable litigator‘. The second line of key practitioners includes Caroline Greenwell, who is experienced in multi-jurisdictional disputes and financial crime investigations; Lucy Wicksteed, who focuses on financial services and fraud; Abigail Rushton, whose experience includes obtaining worldwide freezing orders; and ‘incredibly hard-working and talented litigator’ Lin Boutong.