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Financial Crime: High Net Worth Individuals - UK-wide
What the Team is Known For
Bark&co has experience in handling financial crime matters, typically involving bribery, corruption and money laundering.
Financial Crime: High Net Worth Individuals
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Financial Crime: High Net Worth Individuals
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Bark&co is one of the UK’s most progressive and successful fraud and business crime firms, and acts for high-net-worth clients in wide-ranging white-collar crime and fraud cases. It is one of the most active firms in the market in FCA matters, and also acts in high-profile SFO and HMRC prosecutions and investigations.
The firm became a member of the Serious Fraud Panel at its inception and senior staff are accredited supervisors of the most serious and complex cases. Its expertise spans insider dealing/financial trading offences; money laundering; tax, mortgage, internet and pension fraud; bribery & corruption; theft; and fraudulent trading by company directors.
Its track record includes acting for individuals in prominent cases such as the Cheney Pension fraud; the Asil Nadir case (including acting for Ersin Tatar); the US$1bn BAE Systems corruption claims; the Adoboli case; and Marrache & Co.
The firm also acted for individuals in the SFO prosecution following the Libor scandal and its investigations into alleged corruption at Rolls-Royce; acted in major carbon trading fraud case R v F & Others; and acted for Boris Becker in relation to criminal charges brought by the Insolvency Service following his bankruptcy. Its current caseload includes representing individuals in the SFO investigations into London Capital & Finance plc; funeral provider Safe Hands Plan; care homes connected to collapsed property developer Carlauren Group; and collapsed law firm Axiom Ince.
Strengths
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Bark&co is acutely aware of the commercial implications of cases and is always able to provide practical advice to help high net worth clients protect their commercial position.
Bark&co has great strength and depth and the ability to match complex cases to the right solicitor and counsel for the client.
Bark&co is acutely aware of the commercial implications of cases and is always able to provide practical advice to help high net worth clients protect their commercial position.
Bark&co has great strength and depth and the ability to match complex cases to the right solicitor and counsel for the client.
Notable Practitioners
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Giles Bark-Jones
Giles Bark-Jones is a well-known figure in the financial crime space.
Giles Bark-Jones is one of the very best in the market. He's a go-to for high net worth individuals and fights fearlessly.
Giles Bark-Jones is actively involved in client management and providing high-level strategic and tactical advice. Clients really know that he is on their side.
David Byrne
David Byrne is a hugely experienced financial crime lawyer with a strong track record in these matters. Byrne is now a senior consultant at Bark&co.
David Byrne has a remarkable knack of finding the fault-lines in a case that no one else spots. He has decades of experience of the biggest cases, and has lost none of his hunger for the fight.
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