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Ms Amanda Pinto KC

Position

An expert in financial wrongdoing, Amanda is involved in many high-profile cases involving corporate crime, fraud, money laundering, asset recovery and bribery issues, often with an international dimension.

She regularly appears in cases involving the SFO and FCA

Amanda’s expertise is sought by clients across the globe, from large multi-national organisations and government agencies to small corporates, company boards and officers, and individual private clients. She often advises corporates and company officers who are caught up in business wrongdoing during or after a corporate M&A or internal investigations which she has experience of undertaking.

Internationally, she has advised or appeared as an expert in Gibraltar, Greece, New Zealand, the Middle East and Cyprus. She is an expert on sanctions law.

In 2020 she was Chair of the Bar Council of England and Wales, having been Chair of the International Committee 2015-2018. In 2021 she was appointed to the PRIME Finance expert panel as a global expert in complex financial products.

Publications:

Co-Author Corporate Criminal Liability by Pinto and Evans (4th Edition, 2021 Sweet and Maxwell)

2012-present Contributing editor to Blackstone’s Criminal Practice on corporate crime

2019- present Contributing editor to Smith, Owen and Bodnar on Asset Recovery on sanctions

Amanda has trained foreign judges, prosecutors and lawyers on money laundering, financial crime and corruption in the Middle East, Moscow, Hong-Kong, China.

Career

2022 Trustee of the Race Equality Foundation

2021 Appointed to the Panel of Recognised International Market Experts in Finance (“P.R.I.M.E. Finance”)

2020 Chair of the Bar of England and Wales

2020 Shortlisted for Chambers & Partners Outstanding Contribution to Diversity and Inclusion Award

2019 Vice Chair of the Bar of England and Wales

2018- Champion of the First 100 Years Project

2017-2020 Deputy Chair of the Tate Members Council

2015- Trustee of the Slynn Foundation (enhancing the rule of law and justice systems internationally)

2014-2018 Chair of the International Committee of the Bar Council

2014- Bencher of Middle Temple, advocacy and ethics trainer;   member of the Bencher Selection Advisory Committee (2014-17) and International Committee (2014-2019)

2014-2018 Trustee of the Tate Members Charity

2009-2017 United Kingdom representative on the Council of the International Criminal Bar

2006 – Appointed Silk

2004- Recorder of the Crown Court (part-time Judge in serious crime)

1983 – Called to the Bar

Education

1991 Introduction to the History of Art, Birkbeck College, University of London (distinction)

1982 MA Gonville and Caius College, University of Cambridge (exhibitioner)