We have represented clients facing investigations in the United States (Department of Justice (DoJ) and the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC)), France, Switzerland, Italy, Germany, India, Greece, Denmark, the Russian Federation, Romania, Ukraine, the Caribbean, Nigeria, Tanzania, and Liechtenstein.
We secure the best possible outcomes for our clients, often resulting in the resolution of investigations without prosecution and with minimal impact on our client’s personal and professional life.
Our experience
Examples of our cross-border instructions include:
- Successful challenge to a search warrant executed against a UK-based corporate entity pursuant to an MLA request received from the US authorities, and thereafter challenging further action taken by the UK police pursuant to additional requests for assistance from the US authorities in relation to documents and evidence.
- Advising and representing an English barrister in criminal proceedings in Trinidad in relation to allegations of bribery and corruption arising from the suspected payment of kickbacks to the former Attorney General of Trinidad & Tobago.
- Successful resolution of criminal investigations (and parallel civil proceedings) in a number of jurisdictions arising out of the alleged failure by individual trustees to comply with domestic court orders made in the context of the UK’s second largest divorce award; the assets in question, the trusts, and the individual trustees were outside of the UK giving rise to complex arguments concerning the jurisdictional limits of UK court orders.
- Acting for a UK-based former senior executive of a European bank in money laundering investigation conducted by the US and Danish authorities (SOIK) arising from activity through the bank’s Baltic operations.
- Acting for a Swiss based trustee in connection with a US investigation into suspected tax fraud potentially involving trust assets; co-ordinating with Swiss, US and other UK lawyers in relation to ensuring compliance with UK Proceeds of Crime Act regime.
- Acting for UK-based former senior banker facing fraud allegations in Russia and connected money laundering investigations in Switzerland and France; co-ordinating their response to these investigations, asset freezes and associated issues (including Interpol, the risk of extradition and potential civil proceedings) in additional jurisdictions including the UK, Liechtenstein, Luxembourg, Estonia and Cyprus
