Meet the team

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Acted for Boris Becker in relation to criminal charges brought by the Insolvency Service following his bankruptcy in 2017.

Acting in eight separate, large-scale FCA investigations and prosecutions.

Won a landmark victory in the Supreme Court for a HNW client, concerning the extent to which suspects of (in this case, financial) crime are entitled to privacy. The case involved an American business executive in a large public company which operates overseas, who was facing a criminal inquiry by a British regulator.

Team Services

Bark&co is one of the UK’s most progressive and successful fraud and business crime firms. We handle a wide range of white-collar crime and fraud cases, including prosecutions and investigations brought by the SFO, the FCA, and HMRC.

We became a member of the Serious Fraud Panel at its inception and members of the team are accredited as supervisors of the most complex cases. We have helped clients in connection with many of the highest-profile prosecutions brought by the SFO and other agencies. Our recent record includes representing some 55 clients at Southwark Crown Court (over the past year, or awaiting trial) as well as acting in a succession of large-scale FCA investigations and prosecutions. Our expertise spans money laundering and carousel fraud, mortgage fraud, investment fraud, corruption, pension fund fraud, telecoms fraud, theft, fraudulent trading by company directors and internet fraud.

Our track record includes acting for individuals in prominent cases such as the Cheney Pension fraud; the high-profile Asil Nadir case; the US$1bn BAE Systems corruption claims; the Adoboli case (the former trader at UBS charged in relation to US$2.3bn trading losses); and Marrache & Co. We also acted for an individual in relation to the SFO’s investigation into Amec Foster Wheeler; acted for a defendant in the SFO prosecution following the Libor scandal; represented key individuals in the SFO investigations into alleged corruption at Rolls-Royce; and acted in R V F & Others – described by prosecution counsel as the ‘biggest case ever’ involving allegations of carbon trading fraud.