Financial Crime: High Net Worth Individuals
High Net Worth Guide 2023 : UK-wide
Band 3
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Provided by Bark&co
Bark&co is one of the UK’s most progressive and successful fraud and business crime firms. It acts for high-net-worth clients in a wide range of white-collar crime and fraud cases, including high-profile prosecutions and investigations brought by the SFO, the FCA and HMRC.
The firm became a member of the Serious Fraud Panel at its inception and senior staff are accredited as supervisors of the most serious and complex cases. Our expertise spans money laundering and carousel fraud, mortgage/investment/pension fund/telecoms/internet fraud, corruption, theft, and fraudulent trading by company directors.
Our track record includes acting for individuals in prominent cases such as the Cheney Pension fraud (the largest theft from a pension fund since Maxwell); the high-profile Asil Nadir case (including acting for Ersin Tatar in connection thereto); the US$1bn BAE Systems corruption claims; the Adoboli case; and Marrache & Co. The firm also acted for acted for a defendant in the SFO prosecution following the Libor scandal; represented key individuals in the high-profile SFO investigations into alleged corruption at Rolls-Royce; acted in the 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. The firm also won, in 2022, a landmark victory in the Supreme Court for a HNW client concerning the extent to which suspects of crime are entitled to privacy.