Robin Barclay

Robin Barclay KC is a leading commercial Silk well-known for working on high-stake disputes and investigations involving significant corporate clients, senior professionals and HNW individuals from around the world.

His practice areas include fraud, banking and financial services, financial crime, economic sanctions, public law and professional discipline. His caseload features a panoply of commercial, criminal and regulatory investigations, litigation and arbitration for clients in or from the UK & Europe, the US & Americas, the Middle East & Africa, Asia and China, in London and overseas.

Robin’s fraud work embraces heavy civil and criminal matters with a focus on cross-border disputes and investigations, as well as interim relief and judicial review. He is instructed on matters at the highest level and is highly regarded for his holistic and astute strategic advice and court room advocacy.

Robin is regularly instructed in a range of high-value banking disputes, including those featuring injunctions and regulatory compliance.

He has considerable experience of financial services and professional disciplinary proceedings. He is well-known for his expertise in market abuse, Listing and the Takeover Code, senior management misconduct, fiduciary and trust matters, serious corporate governance failings and has acted in the largest UK corporate audit and accountancy scandals.

Robin has also acted in many of the most significant global financial crime matters of the past decade affecting the Americas, Middle East & Africa, Asia, Russia and the CIS. Following the conflict in Ukraine he has been the sanctions counsel-of-choice for companies and individuals of the highest profile.