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Pallas Partners LLP

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With strength in transatlantic matters, the investigations practice at Pallas Partners LLP fields a team of ‘superior negotiators’. Matt Getz and Tracey Dovaston jointly lead the team. The ‘exceptionally talented’ Getz is dual-qualified in the US and the UK, and has a notable focus on governmental and internal investigations, particularly related to corruption issues. Dovaston takes point on investigations and criminal proceedings in the financial services space, acting for senior executives and non-executive directors facing allegations of tax evasion and money laundering. Will Hooker left the team in October 2023.
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  • ‘Diverse team offering an alternative outlook.’

  • ‘Pallas are an elite team. They listen attentively to the client and push back appropriately, even when that means being forceful. Service levels and responsiveness are always excellent. Immensely commercially aware. Their well-earned confidence makes them superior negotiators.’

  • ‘Matt Getz is exceptionally talented at his job. He holds himself accountable for very high standards and his service levels are second to none.’

  • ‘I recommend Tracey Dovaston.'

  • ‘Massive market impact - the go to boutique of the moment - re-defining the scope and definition civil and criminal fraud litigation. Does it all excellently.’

  • ‘Matt Getz - a white collar expert who is brilliant with clients in a range of sectors.'

  • 'Tracey Dovaston - financial crime and de-banking FS expert.'

  • ‘Matt Getz is extremely knowledgeable and exceptional at his job. We can't rate him highly enough.’

Work highlights

  • Representing a co-founder of HDR Global Trading and BitMEX, the UK-based cryptocurrency exchange and derivative trading platform, on a number of related regulatory investigations involving allegations of corporate crime.
  • Representing a co-founder of Glen Point Capital, a UK-based hedge fund, who is the subject of an indictment from the US Department of Justice and a civil complaint from the Commodities and Futures Trading Commission, with extradition matters and defending and appealing the charges.

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Matt Getz; Tracey Dovaston