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Jas Jandu
Position
Jas Jandu’s practice ranges from Financial Services Enforcement and Financial Crime to Commercial Litigation.
He has extensive Financial Services law / litigation experience and recent instructions have included: advising a major, FCA-Authorised commercial firm on complex internal investigations, advising the Payment Systems Regulator on confidential enforcement investigations and the FCA on POCA, Judicial Review & High Court claims.
As a former Commercial Litigation Solicitor and ex-FCA In-House Counsel he has almost 20 years’ experience of advising and acting for UK/international corporates, individuals or public bodies on matters of English law and complex High Court litigation with an international element. In 2020 he was appointed to the SFO’s C Panels for ‘Prosecutions’ and ‘Proceeds Of Crime & International Assistance’ and was also appointed as a Recorder on the South Eastern Circuit.
Career
Jas joined the self-employed Bar in 2017 after 8 years as a senior litigation lawyer/in-house counsel at the FCA where he developed specialist, advanced expertise in Financial Services Enforcement and advised on various Regulatory cases, Civil litigation and Criminal investigations. His work spanned the entirety of the FCA’s remit from High Court litigation against Unauthorised Businesses to regulatory Retail/Wholesale Finance matters, including presenting cases to the FCA’s Regulatory Decisions Committee.
Before being called to the Bar in 2014, Jas was a Solicitor Advocate with over 10 years’ litigation experience and previously worked at several top-flight law firms acting on £multi-million commercial cases across a range of sectors including International Media Events and Public-Private Sector Disputes. He trained at Allen & Overy with secondments at Liberty (Human Rights Law) and the High Court.
He also mentors aspiring law students through the Social Mobility Foundation.
Memberships
Financial Services Lawyers Association
Commercial Bar Association
Fraud Lawyers Association
South Eastern Circuit
Education
University of Nottingham
Lawyer Rankings
London Bar > Financial services regulation
(Leading Juniors)Ranked: Tier 3London Bar > Business and regulatory crime (including global investigations)
(Leading Juniors)Ranked: Tier 3Jas Jandu – 7BR ‘Jas has a wealth of regulatory experience, enabling him to quickly identify key legal issues arising from evidential requirements and policy challenges. He has excellent attention to detail and showed himself to be constructive and positive in advising on how both to take the case forward whilst strategically highlighting areas for policy that required further subsequent development.‘