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Julian Richards
Work Department
Financial Crime
Position
Partner, Solicitor-Advocate
Career
Julian is a Solicitor and Partner of the firm, based at our Oxford office.
He is recognised nationally as a specialist in serious and complex crime. His reputation is such that he is regularly instructed in cases of this nature throughout the country.
He has a wealth of experience in dealing with murder, large scale drugs conspiracies and serious sexual offending.
Much of Julian’s recent practice however revolves around white collar crime and the defence of directors and business professionals facing prosecution by HMRC, the SFO and the FCA, where his ability to identify the relevant issues in these technical and complicated cases, is invaluable. He regularly defends clients who have been prosecuted for multi-million pound frauds and is currently retained to provide advice in an ongoing investigation into bribery act offences, a multi-jurisdictional “Ponzi scheme” fraud to the value of £80 million and a tax planning fraud to the value of £132 million.
Julian is commercially astute having previously worked for a leading multi-national corporate law firm based in the City of London. His focused and shrewd tactical approach means that he is frequently engaged by corporate clients to provide them with advice in respect of a wide range of issues; from allegations of large scale trademark infringement investigated by PIPCU and offences under the General Product Safety Regulations 2005, to offences investigated by the Medicines and Healthcare Products Regulatory Agency.
Languages
English
Lawyer Rankings
South West > Crime, fraud and licensing > General crime and fraud
At Reeds Solicitors, the national offering is split between the complex crime and private crime teams, which are headed up by Oxford-based practitioners Julian Richards and Stuart Matthews, respectively; the former group focuses on large-scale fraud, drug conspiracies and HMRC work, while the latter spans a broad range of general criminal mandates. In Bristol, ‘keen legal mind‘ Stephen Clifford heads up the Crown Court practice, while Nicola Hutchinson oversees the private client and criminal department. Solicitor-advocate Andy Lee is noted for his ‘wealth of experience in serious and complex matters‘.
South East > Crime, fraud and licensing > General crime and fraud
(Leading individuals)London > Crime, fraud and licensing > Crime: general
The crime practice at Reeds Solicitors is dually led by London-based Neil Williams and Oxford-based Julian Richards, and is particularly notable for its growing expertise on cryptocurrency matters within the financial crime sphere. Stuart Matthews is noted for leading on private crime work, while Sundeep Soor is recommended for his work in white collar crime and fraud cases.