Business Crime partner Neil Swift, explains the danger of a defendant commenting about a trial on social media platforms such as Twitter. Neil’s comments feature in a piece published by Bloomberg titled ‘Ex-Barclays Trader Tweets rather than testifies at trial.’ This piece discusses tweets from former trader, Stylianos Contogoulas’s personal twitter account during the time of the trial. Neil comments […]
Business Crime Associate, Miranda Ching, represents David Hughes, a British kayaking instructor accused of causing the death of Private Jamie Sawyer, during an adventure training exercise in March 2015. Acquitted in early March, Hughes has now returned to his family in the UK after 15 months, three months of which was spent in custody. Due […]
Partner Jason Woodland to take part in the panel discussion for the Law Society, English Law Day Forum in Kyiv. The panel will discuss Dispute Resolution – Asset Tracing, how to proceed once you have a money arbitral award or court decision that is not being satisfied voluntarily. What needs to be done with the award/decision for […]
Towards the end of 2016 we circulated a staff satisfaction survey, in partnership with HR in Law and consultancy firm Smith & Henderson. The outcome was very positive, with favourable responses to a range of questions about the firm covering areas such as working environment, how the firm is managed, leadership and culture, the firm’s […]
Head of International Keith Oliver, is chairing day two of C5’s 2017 Fraud, Asset Tracing and Recovery Conference in Geneva. Robert Hunter of Edmond Marshall McMahon to chair day one. Keith is also moderating the session titled: Fraud Litigation in the Middle East: Do’s and Don’ts. Panellists for this session include: Mohammed Al Dahbashi, Managing partner, Mohammed Al Dahbashi Advocates & […]
The Lawyer has just announced their ‘2017 Hot 100 Management’ list and our Senior Partner Michael O’Kane is named, he is one of only 14 firm leaders to feature. Michael became Peters & Peters Senior partner in October 2016, has headed up the firm’s renowned Business Crime team for seven years and is recognised as […]
The Lawyer has published its Top 10 Litigation Cases of 2017 and Peters & Peters secures a top spot with its case Ecclestone and Bambino Holdings v Bayerische Landesbank. This case concerns the controversial sale of Formula 1 to private equity group CVC in 2006, specifically the conduct of Formula One Boss Bernie Ecclestone in […]
Business Crime Partner, Neil Swift comments on the settlement of the bribery investigation between Rolls-Royce Holdings Plc and U.K prosecutors. To read both articles and Neil’s commentary, click on the links below. Reuters Bloombergs
Senior Partner, Michael O’Kane appeared on the afternoon show on Shareradio to discuss fines imposed on banks by COMCO and the EU Competition Commission. Listen to the full interview here.
BBC online and the Times report on the Swiss Competition Commission (COMCO) who have fined seven European and US Banks for rigging benchmark rates and related products. Since the ruling, some have suggested that the fines were low when compared with those imposed by the EU Competition. Peters & Peters Partner, Hannah Laming argued that […]
