Andrew Taplin > CMS > London, England > Lawyer Profile

‘Continuously focused on generating victories for clients’, CMS‘ fraud team in London leverages the firm’s enviable banking client base, particularly in relation to financial fraud. The group is also supported by the firm’s highly regarded regulatory lawyers. Other areas of expertise are energy-related mandates, along with corruption, tax evasion and money laundering cases. The firm additionally has a robust cyber fraud practice, with its breach response service covering 70 jurisdictions worldwide. Praised for his ‘intellectual dynamism and brilliance’, commercial litigator Bernard O’Sullivan is a specialist in asset recovery, civil fraud and regulatory issues; Andrew Taplin‘s broad fraud practice ranges from multi-jurisdictional claims involving HNW individuals and their corporate vehicles, to employee fraud, payment fraud claims for banks, and business and share sale-related fraud, dishonesty and concealment claims; Tamsin Blow represents both claimants and defendants in multi-jurisdictional fraud cases; Luke Pardey is ‘fantastic’; and Eoin O’Shea is a highly regarded fraud and financial crime practitioner. In April 2024, Nadia Latti was promoted to partner, ‘a role she has been owning for some time’, while Anita de Villiers has notable experience in fraud proceedings (both in the UK and Australia).