Amanda Pinto

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 is recognised as a leader by the directories in Financial Crime: Corporates and Individual. In 2022, she was nominated for The Legal 500 Corporate Crime KC of the Year.

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. Her advisory work covers problems in civil, criminal and regulatory contexts. It often involves money market and benchmark instruments, sophisticated investor problems and collective investment schemes.

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.