The ‘cost sensitive and flexible’ team at Stephenson Harwood provides ‘insightful and effective legal advice’ to entities (including financial services firms) and individuals across a range of regulatory enforcement/criminal matters and domestic and cross-border litigation. Dorothy Siron who joined from Zhong Lun Law Firm in January 2024 is particularly skilled at advising on fraud and asset recovery and cyber-crime-related matters and is noted for her ability to achieve ’great results for clients’. Team head Ian Childs has a focus on representing financial services clients on contentious regulatory/criminal matters and is able to provide unique insight in relation to fraud and AML offences by dint of his previous roles as senior officer in the Royal Hong Kong Police Force, Republic of Singapore Police Force and in security/investigations/AML at JP Morgan.

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Testimonials

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  • 'They are very time, cost sensitive and flexible and provide insightful and effective legal advice.'

  • ‘Ian Childs and Victoria Yeung have been very helpful and effective in advising us on various investigation and industrial conviction cases.’

  • ‘Dorothy Siron is an expert in her field and super responsive I have worked in collaboration with Dorothy and her team on international asset tracing matters and achieved great results for clients. ’

  • ‘Dorothy Siron is internationally recognised as an expert. I have had the pleasure of instructing Dorothy and her team to obtain injunction relief as part of a global asset recovery mandate. She was hands on, responsive and an absolute pleasure to work with. She is first class. ’

  • 'Dorothy Siron is a most effective lawyer in handling both the personal and the legal aspects of a dispute, and (very importantly) in planning ahead for and seeing through to asset recovery. She and her team deliver heavy punches to the other side and results to their clients.'

Practice head

The lawyer(s) leading their teams.

Ian Childs

Other key lawyers

Dorothy Siron, Emily Li, Victoria Yeung