Norton Rose Fulbright

An ‘excellent choice for London litigation’, Norton Rose Fulbright is routinely instructed by corporate and banking clients to act in high-stakes and high-profile fraud disputes in the UK. The team’s civil fraud and asset tracing expertise extends to insolvency, white-collar crime, cyber-fraud, and bribery and corruption cases. It also has substantial experience in high-value civil fraud-related interim relief applications, such as worldwide freezing orders and proprietary injunctions, as well as Norwich Pharmacal and search orders. The practice recently experienced an increase in work relating to push payments, supplier invoices and crypto fraud. Fusing experience in civil fraud litigation in the English High Court with international expertise, Ruth Cowley is the firm’s London commercial disputes head, while Patrick Bourke is EMEA dispute resolution leader. The practice also includes Harriet Jones-Fenleigh, a specialist in civil fraud disputes, including applications for worldwide freezing orders, proprietary injunctions, and Norwich Pharmacal orders and other ancillary relief; James Lockwood, a ’star of the future’, who is currently acting in bribery, conspiracy and dishonest assistance claims, along with payment fraud disputes; Antony Corsi, whose caseload frequently involves large-value fraud claims; and contentious financial services lawyer Katie Stephen. Stuart Neely, Samson Spanier and Aditya Badami are other names to note.