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Jonathan Fisher KC
Position
Jonathan Fisher KC is ranked as a leading barrister, with extensive experience in civil, criminal and regulatory cases. Jonathan has particular expertise in the areas of Bribery & Corruption, Sanctions, Financial Services Regulation, Fraud, Money Laundering & Proceeds of Crime, and Tax & Insolvency disputes.
Much of Jonathan’s work involves international transactions, offshore companies and trusts. He has represented defendants and prosecution authorities in many serious or complex criminal and civil trials. Today, Jonathan’s practice is mostly advisory.
Jonathan holds a PhD, awarded by LSE, following his research into the obligation to report suspicious money laundering activity and corporate rights.
Career
Called 1980
Silk 2003
Chartered Tax Adviser (Fellow)
Accredited STEP practitioner
Dubai International Financial Court (registered practitioner)
Lloyds Financial Crime Reports (General Editor)
London School of Economics (Visiting Professor)
Commissioner on the Commission for a UK Bill of Rights, 2010-11
Standing Counsel (Criminal) to Commissioners of Inland Revenue 1991-2003.
Publications:
Books:
Arlidge & Parry on Fraud, 6th edition, Thomson Sweet & Maxwell, co-author
The Criminal Finances Act 2017, Informa Law, co-author
Law of Investor Protection, Sweet & Maxwell, co-author,
Chapters
‘Fraud in Civil and Criminal Law’, Research Handbook on International Financial Crime, Edward Elgar
‘Fighting Financial Crime in the Global Economic Crisis’, Policing the Financial Markets, Risk and Recklessness, Routledge
‘Temas de Anticorruptcao e Compliance’, The UK Bribery Act 2010, Elsevier (Brazil)
‘Confiscating the Proceeds of Crime’, International Guide to Money Laundering Law & Practice, Bloomsbury Professional
‘EU Directives’, A Practitioner’s Guide to International Money Laundering Law and Regulation, Sweet & Maxwell
Peer-reviewed journals
‘Anti-Corruption Sanctions, The Bribery Act and Unexplained Wealth Order’, Criminal Law Review 2022, 41, co-author
‘Confiscation: Deprivatory and not Punitive’ Criminal Law Review, 2018, 192, co-author.
‘Permanent injunction to prevent market abuse’ Butterworths Journal of International Banking and Financial Law 2015, 681
Part 1 of ‘Serious Crime Act 2015: Strengthening the restraint and confiscation regime’, Criminal Law Review, September 2015, 753-765
‘Criminal forms of high frequency trading on the financial markets’, Law and Financial Markets Review, 2015, 113, co-author
‘The vulnerability of HMRC to penetration by criminal actors’, Journal of Money Laundering Control, 2012, 153.
Memberships
Chartered Institute of Taxation (Fellow)
CBA
Dubai International Financial Court (registered practitioner)
Society of Legal Scholars
STEP (accredited practitioner)
South Eastern Circuit
Education
PhD, LSE
Master’s degree in law, LLM, Cambridge University
BA in Law: 1st Class
Lawyer Rankings
London Bar > Proceeds of crime (POCA) and asset forfeiture
(Leading Silks)Ranked: Tier 1Jonathan Fisher KC –Red Lion Chambers ‘Jonathan is exquisite. He captures the confidence of the client from the very start of any consultation with his mastery of the detail, his clarity of thought and his obvious pre-eminence in the area.‘
London Bar > Tax: corporate
(Leading Silks)Ranked: Tier 2London Bar > Financial services regulation
(Leading Silks)Ranked: Tier 2London Bar > Business and regulatory crime (including global investigations)
(Leading Silks)Ranked: Tier 1London Bar > Fraud: crime
(Leading Silks)Ranked: Tier 3Jonathan Fisher KC – Red Lion Chambers ‘Jonathan is very astute, quickly understands the important issues and is able to very easily pinpoint the relevant law and explain it in a simple way. He always finds a solution. Aside from his fantastic knowledge of the law and his skill in applying that knowledge, he always makes himself available and his turnaround of work is exceptional.’
London Bar > Fraud: civil
(Leading Silks)Ranked: Tier 2Jonathan Fisher KC –Red Lion Chambers
‘His reputation is second to none. As he practices in a number of jurisdictions, he has an exceptional profile in massive cross-border cases. He is very bright and a super-effective counsel.’