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Crime – corporate; fraud: crime; crime – general.

Prosecutes and defends in financial crime and related areas. His specialist fields include revenue fraud, insider trading and investment fraud, money laundering, bribery, confiscation and asset forfeiture. Formerly Standing Counsel to H.M. Customs and Excise, he has appeared in numerous high -profile cases and is prominent in the field of VAT fraud having appeared in many of the major cases of the past decade.

His recent or pending cases include: the SFO prosecution of Sweete PLC for an offence of bribery in the Middle East; confiscation proceedings in HMRC Operation Vaulter; a high-profile private prosecution by a UK insurance company; the criminal investigation of an alleged tax avoidance scheme; a major money laundering prosecution (R v Adams & Ors.) and an FCA investment fraud (R v Bhandari & Ors.)

He has lectured on tax and other serious fraud including LexisNexis webinars.

Called Middle Temple 1973. Standing Counsel to H.M. Customs & Excise 1994 - 2003. QC 2003. Member of the Serious Fraud Office panel of Queen's Counsel. Head of Chambers 5PB, 2009 – 2014. Recorder of the Crown Court (authorised to sit at the Central Criminal Court).

South Eastern Circuit; Criminal Bar Association; Fraud Lawyers Association; Financial Services Lawyers Association.

Stowe School, Buckingham; University of Sussex (1971 BA History); College of Law, London.