Cartels, Competition and Price Fixing

Our specialist team of criminal defence solicitors are adept at dealing with the complexities of modern day financial and corporate investigations and prosecutions, whether into alleged tax fraud, commodities and currency frauds, bank investment frauds, insider dealing, money laundering, corruption, cartels, confiscation, forfeiture or any other alleged fraudulent activity. 

We know how large scale investigations work and have the resources to offer a sophisticated and streamlined response for our clients both in the UK and internationally. We can also advise individuals in relation to the impact of such an investigation or prosecution on their authorisation by the FSA or other professional regulatory body.

Our serious fraud and business crime team of lawyers is assisted by members of Kingsley Napley's civil fraud department who can give advice in relation to parallel civil proceedings, asset tracing and recovery, freezing and search orders, and most other areas of litigation and dispute resolution. They have experience acting for both Claimants and Defendants.  Such cases often involve employment law issues and our employment team are able to advise on appropriate strategies for companies or individuals who find themselves embroiled in a fraud or business investigation.

Notable cases

• Acting for defendants in high profile Serious Fraud Office (SFO) investigations, including those into BAE, Severn Trent, Torex Retail Plc, PWS, Pharmaceuticals / Generics, Independent Insurance plc, Transtec Plc, Wickes plc
• Representing individuals in Her Majesty’s Revenue and Customs (HMRC) investigations and prosecutions, including “trust busting” pensions fraud cases, complex tax relief schemes, MTIC frauds
• Acted for former British Airways commercial director on the Office of Fair Trading (OFT) price-fixing case, where charges were eventually withdrawn
• International investigations and prosecutions including the Italian investigation into the collapse of Parmalat, corruption and sanctions busting cases such as the “Oil for Food” investigations, representing traders in regulatory and criminal investigations by several European jurisdictions concerning allegations of market misconduct
• Financial Services Authority (FSA) regulatory and criminal investigations and prosecutions, including representing an individual from AIT in the FSA's first criminal prosecution under section 397 FSMA 2000 for misleading the market,
• Major Crown Prosecution Service (CPS) prosecutions for serious fraud including the main defendant in one of the first major insider dealing prosecutions
• Various notable historic cases, such as the Jubilee line extension fraud, acting for Nick Leeson, Ian Maxwell and in the trials relating to Guinness and Polly Peck

If you would like to talk to our specialist fraud lawyers, please contact Stephen Parkinson or Stephen Gentle