Civil Fraud

What Our Barristers Do

We offer expertise in all areas of commercial fraud and asset recovery. Our barristers act in high-value, complex fraud litigation, including applications for freezing injunctions, search orders and disclosure orders.

Our barristers also appear in arbitrations concerning allegations of fraud and corruption.

Cases in which we act involve banking fraud, breach of fiduciary duties and direcctors’ duties, bribery and corruption, fraudulent misrepresentation and deceit, conspiracy and deceit, directors’ duties, money laundering, search and seizure orders and international tracing and restitutionary measures.

Who Our Barristers Act For

Our clients include governments, sovereign wealth funds, banks, financial institutions, multinational companies, corporates and individuals.

Where Our Barristers Act

We act in both offshore, international and cross-border fraud cases as well as located in England and Wales.  A number of our barristers have been called to the Bars of other jurisdictions, including in the Caribbean, Australia, the Republic of Ireland, the Channel Islands, Isle of Man and Gibraltar.

We are frequently instructed in cross-border cases conducted in Europe, the USA, the Far East, the Middle East and the Caribbean.

People

  • Richard Spearman KC

    Year of Call 1977 Silk 1996

  • Charles Manzoni KC

    Year of Call 1988 Silk 2009

  • Sam Stein KC

    Year of Call 1988 Silk 2009

  • Peter Turner KC

    Year of Call 2024 (avocat à la Cour (France), 2016) Silk 2015

  • Paul Hayes KC

    Year of Call 2005 Silk 2017

  • Jonathan Bellamy

    Year of Call 1986 (DIFC 2020)

  • Ben Olbourne

    Year of Call 2003

  • Ashley Pratt

    Year of Call 2006

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