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Peters & Peters Solicitors LLP Offices

London
    Peters & Peters Solicitors LLP
    15 FETTER LANE
    LONDON
    EC4A 1BW
    England
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    Michael O"Kane

    Michael O
    020 7822 7777 mokane@petersandpeters.com View profile View profile

    Work Department

    Domestic and international business crime and regulation.

    Position

    Senior Partner and Head of the Business Crime Department. He specialises in international sanctions, criminal cartel investigations, corruption, extradition, and serious fraud investigations. Has successfully represented many individual and corporate clients facing investigations in the UK, the US and other jurisdictions. Headline cases include: acting for a main suspect in the
    Malaysian 1MDB corruption investigations, acting for a CEO in the Petrobras investigation, acting for leading EU company in a significant corruption investigation; successfully leading the largest private prosecution case brought by an individual in the UK; acting for multiple Zimbabwean, Egyptian and Russian entities and individuals in judicial challenges to the EU sanctions regime; acting for a senior executive in the SFO Barclays/Qatar investigation; representing a multinational company in the global car parts cartel; successfully representing two British Airways executives in the CMA price-fixing trial; acting for the first individual to be charged with the UK cartel offence. Previous experience as a senior prosecutor of high profile and complex criminal cases. Consistently highlighted as a leading authority in Business Crime in leading legal directories, Michael was also nominated as Legal Innovator of The Year in The Financial Times Lawyer Awards 2011, is Winner of the GCR Competition Law Article of the Year Award 2012, listed in the global top ten investigative lawyers and leads the firm’s sanctions practice that was awarded the 2015 EU Sanctions Law Firm of the Year by World ECR. Michael co-writes a blog on European Sanctions Law at www.europeansanctions.com.

    Career

    Pupillage at Criminal Bar 1992-93; Crown Prosecution Service (Greenwich) 1994-99; Crown Prosecution Service (Casework Directorate) 1999-2002; Peters & Peters 2002 to date; partner 2004. Senior Partner 2016.

    Memberships

    Former co-chair of the IBA’s Business Crime Committee; member American Bar Association; Competition Lawyers Association.

    Education

    St Columb’s College, Derry; Manchester Metropolitan University (1991); Inns of Court School of Law (1992).

    Lawyer Rankings

    London > Crime, fraud and licensing > Fraud: white-collar crime (advice to individuals)

    (Hall of Fame)

    Michael O’Kane – Peters & Peters Solicitors LLP

    London > Risk advisory > Regulatory investigations and corporate crime (advice to corporates)

    (Hall of Fame)

    Michael O’Kane – Peters & Peters Solicitors LLP

    London > Crime, fraud and licensing > Crime: general

    (Leading partners)

    Michael O’Kane –Peters & Peters Solicitors LLP

    London > Dispute resolution > Public international law

    Specialising in high-stakes international disputes, Peters & Peters Solicitors LLP delivers ‘efficient and top-quality advice’. In addition to the practice’s expertise in UK sanctions (including challenges) and export controls, it has a significant track record in successfully challenging INTERPOL Red Notices. Anna Bradshaw advises individuals and corporations on financial crime and economic sanctions-related risks, as well as compliance and enforcement issues; business crime specialist Michael O’Kane is ‘an extremely effective advocate’; and Alistair Jones represents sanctioned parties in designation challenges.

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