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Mishcon de Reya LLP
AFRICA HOUSE
70 KINGSWAY
LONDON
WC2B 6AH
England

Work Department

Dispute Resolution - Fraud

Position

Gary is a Partner in the Dispute Resolution department. He is an international litigator who has specialised in complex commercial disputes involving dishonesty, fraud and corruption issues for over 37 years.

For the first 13 years of his career Gary worked in Hong Kong and headed up the Litigation Departments of two of the leading firms there. During this time Gary worked for the leading multi-national financial institutions in Asia, assisting them in asset recovery exercises and enforcing foreign judgments in Hong Kong and throughout Asia.

In 1991 Gary joined Mishcon de Reya and founded the Fraud Group which he led for over 15 years. He has pioneered the use of injunctions in the arena of asset recovery with particular emphasis on freezing assets, forcing disclosure of financial information and seizing evidence via search orders in order to force speedy resolutions of commercial disputes.

In the course of his asset tracing activities Gary has developed an in depth knowledge of the workings of the various offshore banking and trust jurisdictions which are habitually used by parties to conceal their assets. As a result Gary is regularly retained by clients who are seeking creative solutions to unwind or break-up complicated trust and asset sheltering structures in order to access secreted assets.

Gary also regularly advises organisations on how to protect themselves from bribery and corruption risks and assisting them in dealing discreetly with internal and external issues arising when such risks materialise. Gary works closely with Chief Executives, FD’s, HR Heads as well as Legal and Audit Departments to devise strategies to minimise the criminal, civil and reputational exposure created by internal and external corruption.

Gary is co-founder of The International Fraud Group. The IFG (previously known as the Fraud Network) is a handpicked group of specialist fraud lawyers across 20 countries focused on securing injunctions, asset recovery and trust busting remedies in key offshore jurisdictions.

Chambers 2014 cites Gary as a “great thinker, brilliant tactician and good negotiator.”

Gary was appointed as a Director of the Association of Certified Fraud Examiners (ACFE) UK Chapter in March 2014. His election to the Board of the UK Chapter of the ACFE reflects his experience and standing in the field of fraud prevention and protection. Gary became a Certified Fraud Examiner (CFE) in 2014.

Career

Partner, Mishcon de Reya LLP; Partner, Pritchard Englefield & Tobin; Partner, Robert Wang & Co (Hong Kong); Assistant, Wilkinson & Grist (Hong Kong); Articled, Simmons & Simmons

Languages

Cantonese

Memberships

International Bar Association (IBA); co-founder Fraud Network; co-founder Financial Fraud Group; director of UK chapter of ACFE

Lawyer Rankings

London > Crime, fraud and licensing > Fraud: civil

(Hall of Fame)

Gary MillerMishcon de Reya LLP

Meticulous and detail oriented’, Mishcon de Reya LLP, which routinely acts in cases before the High Court, the Court of Appeal and the Privy Council (as well as overseas), houses specialists in cross-border disputes involving allegations of fraud and dishonesty. Representing both claimants and defendants, the team comprises experts in all fraud litigation-related injunctive remedies, including asset freezing, Norwich Pharmacal, and search and imaging orders. It also advises on the consequences of penal notices. Kasra Nouroozi is ‘the first port of call when assets or businesses are facing existential threats’; recently appointed dispute resolution chair Hugo Plowman specialises in complex fraud, asset tracing and investigations, and all forms of corporate dishonesty; and newly elected fraud group leader Robert Wynn Jones is experienced in obtaining and opposing multiple search, asset freezing and disclosure orders. The practice further includes Rhymal Persad, who is ‘results driven and has very good communication skills’; veteran fraud litigator Gary Miller; Naomi Simpson, whose workload includes multi-jurisdictional fraud disputes; and Rebecca Belgrave, who plays a leading role in growing the firm’s cryptocurrency litigation practice. Oliver Felton and Euan McMahon are also experienced practitioners.