He is listed in the Chambers 100, a legal directory of the top 100 business lawyers in the UK across all areas of law. He was also inducted into the Legal 500 “Hall of Fame” in 2018, which recognises partners who are “at the pinnacle of the profession”.
As a founding member of The International Academy of Financial Crime Litigators, a collaboration between public- and private-sector litigation professionals and the renowned Basel Institute on Governance, Harry adds his extensive experience of financial crime litigation and tax investigations to help promote international co-operation, access to justice and due process.
He sits on the Gold Group of HMRCs Tax Crime Alliance.
He is ranked by Chambers UK in: Financial Crime: Individuals – London (Band 1); Financial Crime: High Net Worth Individuals – UK (Band 1); and Tax Contentious: Fraud – UK Wide (Band 1)
He has had an involvement in numerous high profile commercial fraud and corruption investigations conducted by the Serious Fraud Office including, in the last few years, including ENRC, BAT, Serco, Standard Bank, GPT/Airbus, Innospec, Libor, BAE and GP Noble.
He was consulting editor of the SFO’s publication ‘Serious Economic Crime: A Boardroom Guide to Prevention and Compliance’.
He sits on the Fraud Forum of HMRC, established to consult on policy and operational issues on complex tax investigations and fraud.
Harry has been a partner of BCL since 1995, having cross-qualified as a solicitor in 1991. Previously, he was employed as a barrister in the Tax & Trusts Department of Berwin Leighton specialising in anti-avoidance litigation and trusts.
He is a graduate of St Edmund Hall, Oxford (open scholar, BA, BCL).