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Nicola Howard KC
Position
Nicola is instructed on behalf of corporates and individuals to provide specialist strategic advice at an early stage of an investigation into bribery, corruption and financial crime matters.
She is experienced in the conduct of the most serious and complex cross-border financial crime investigations. Deals with high net worth individuals, Company Officers and SMEs.
Hardworking, tenacious and strategically astute, Nicola is a sought after Silk. She is client friendly with exceptional judgement, and is highly respected by her opponents and the Judiciary alike.
Career
- Called 1995.
- Appointed Recorder of the South Eastern Circuit 2016.
- Appointed Silk 2019.
Memberships
- Proceeds of Crime Lawyers Association
- Association of Regulatory and Disciplinary Lawyers
- Female Fraud Forum
- The Fraud Lawyers Association
- Criminal Bar Association
- Women in Criminal Law
Education
- Hull (BSc Hons Management Sciences – sponsored by international company)
- Westminster University (CPE Diploma in Law – Drapers Trust and Clothworkers foundation scholarships)
Lawyer Rankings
London Bar > Business and regulatory crime (including global investigations)
(Leading Silks)Ranked: Tier 2Nicola Howard KC –25 Bedford Row ‘Nicola is a superb fraud lawyer. She is robust and her judgement is first class. She knows when and how to work with the prosecution to further the interests of her clients.’
London Bar > Fraud: crime
(Leading Silks)Ranked: Tier 1Nicola Howard KC – 25 Bedford Row ‘Nicola is a first-rate silk. She is exceptionally bright and has an astonishing attention to detail. She is a superb jury advocate, great with lay clients, and her written work is excellent.’
25 Bedford Row is a leading criminal defence set with ‘a huge depth of talent dealing with fraud cases’. George Carter-Stephenson KC has considerable experience defending in complex fraud cases – he represented a struck-off solicitor in the criminal case concerning the collapse of the Axiom Legal Financing Fund, which claimed to be funding litigation. In 2022 Nicola Howard KC, ‘a superb jury advocate’, defended a case involved an international confidence fraud orchestrated by a film producer. Nathaniel Rudolf KC defended in a case concerning an alleged boiler room fraud, involving purported investments in payday loans and diamonds.