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Corporate crime [fraud, corruption and manslaughter], extradition, crime [murder and drug smuggling], trading standards/consumer protection, intellectual property offences, regulatory law.

He is a specialist in fraud, corruption, corporate crime and related regulatory issues. Acts for both the state and the defence. Recently appeared successfully for the SFO in the Supreme Court in SFO v O`Brien [2014] UKSC 23. Currently instructed by the DPP of Trinidad and Tobago in a case concerning the largest collapse of a financial conglomerate in the Caribbean. He has lectured on behalf of the Bar Council on corruption, fraud and regulatory matters in the USA, Russia, China, Ukraine and Brazil. Work undertaken: fraud, corruption, corporate crime and related regulatory issues, IP crime, extradition, proceeds of crime, murder, smuggling including evasion of sanctions.

Called 1977; Middle Temple; legal stagaire Clifford Chance, Paris 1978; recorder of the Crown Court 2000; QC 2000; special admissions to the Bar of Trinidad and Tobago 2004 and 2013; SFO`s list of prosecution QCs and proceeds of crime QCs 2013.

French.

South Eastern Circuit; CBA; Bar Council Interest groups for China and US.

Trinity Hall, Cambridge (BA Hons).