Partner Nick Vamos highlights how there is plenty of legal change to be implemented post Brexit. He details the implications for criminal law cooperation across Europe. Read his full article here.
Art sales in 2018 recorded a high of $6billion (according to UBS’ Art Market Report 2019), but only 4 per cent of collectors had spent $1million or higher when purchasing a piece of artwork online. Moving forward to March 2020 when galleries, auction houses and art fairs closed their doors, the art world paused for […]
Chaired by Jane Colston (Brown Rudnick), Keith Oliver (Peter & Peters) and Mona Vaswani (Milbank), a Pecha Kucha style presentation on the fraud issues of the moment. Join us for the second of our regular get togethers, where leading fraud practitioners can reflect on the challenges we face in these extraordinary times, and promote our […]
Senior Associate Rachel Cook will be part of a panel discussing the Methods of Corporate Raiding, how they have evolved and assessing whether the situation is improving or deteriorating. Read more
Philippe Moryoussef, a former Barclays trader and French citizen who fled to France before being convicted of helping to rig a key benchmark is currently facing extradition proceedings which if successful, would result in him being extradited to the UK to serve his 8 year sentence. As the Brexit deadline looms, Nick Vamos says, the […]
Partner Anna Bradshaw comments in the American Bar Association (ABA) Journal on the impact of a no-deal Brexit on criminal justice cooperation, concluding that “without access to these and other tools, the EU and the UK are less secure”. She points to the loss of UK participation in the European Arrest Warrant scheme and access […]
Partner Anna Bradshaw comments in the Global Investigations Review (GIR) on how the recent announcement of a £146,341 penalty imposed by the UK Office of Financial Sanctions Implementation (OFSI) on a UK telecoms operator highlights potential flaws in the agency’s enforcement process and leaves businesses with limited opportunity to learn from any mistakes or understand […]
Partner Neil Swift discusses the potential impact of Brexit on the recognition of UK arrest warrants, and how UK extradition procedure will change should the Bill come into force. Read more Originally published on LexisLibrary and LexisPSL.
Financial institutions have come under scrutiny as the recently leaked “Fincen files” reveal banks and financial services firms that have been taking dirty cash from suspected money launderers. Neil Swift says “on the whole, banks take their obligations to file suspicious activity reports very seriously”. He argues that the reporting system is used to raise […]
The recent decision of the Commercial Court in Burford Capital Ltd v London Stock Exchange Group plc [2020] EWHC 1183 (Comm) is likely to make courts increasingly cautious when considering whether to grant Norwich Pharmacal orders (NPOs) for use in potential private prosecutions. It is likely that some of the obiter comments by Baker J, if applied […]
