Mr Eoin O’Shea > CMS > London, England > Lawyer Profile

The ‘experienced, commercially savvy, and strategic‘ Eoin O’Shea heads up the risk and investigations offering at CMS, which has a strong track record advising clients in HMRC, SFO, EA, and HSE investigations. O’Shea is a fraud specialist whose recent caseload also includes sanctions advisory work. Omar Qureshi is a key contact for compliance matters, while Amy Wilkinson specialises in internal investigations into bribery, fraud, and accounting irregularities. The core team also includes barrister Kitty St Aubyn and digital fraud specialist Josie Welland.

‘Continuously focused on generating victories for clients’, CMS‘ fraud team in London leverages the firm’s enviable banking client base, particularly in relation to financial fraud. The group is also supported by the firm’s highly regarded regulatory lawyers. Other areas of expertise are energy-related mandates, along with corruption, tax evasion and money laundering cases. The firm additionally has a robust cyber fraud practice, with its breach response service covering 70 jurisdictions worldwide. Praised for his ‘intellectual dynamism and brilliance’, commercial litigator Bernard O’Sullivan is a specialist in asset recovery, civil fraud and regulatory issues; Andrew Taplin‘s broad fraud practice ranges from multi-jurisdictional claims involving HNW individuals and their corporate vehicles, to employee fraud, payment fraud claims for banks, and business and share sale-related fraud, dishonesty and concealment claims; Tamsin Blow represents both claimants and defendants in multi-jurisdictional fraud cases; Luke Pardey is ‘fantastic’; and Eoin O’Shea is a highly regarded fraud and financial crime practitioner. In April 2024, Nadia Latti was promoted to partner, ‘a role she has been owning for some time’, while Anita de Villiers has notable experience in fraud proceedings (both in the UK and Australia).