Financial Crime: High Net Worth Individuals - London (Bar)
Band 1
What the Team is Known For
Fountain Court Chambers has an experienced team of senior and junior counsel specialising in white-collar crime, sanctions, POCA work and civil fraud. The set's members regularly act for high net worth and ultra high net worth individuals on such matters, often instructed by the market-leading UK and international law firms in this practice area.
Strengths
They are very responsive and user-friendly, prepared to adapt advice quickly when circumstances change. A go-to set for complex questions concerning financial regulation.
Fountain Court Chambers provide a very good service. The team is responsive and tends to be helpful in terms of dealing with logistics.
Notable practitioners
Clare Sibson KC is recognised for her experience handling financial crime investigations. Sibson joined Fountain Court Chambers in 2022 and regularly acts for high-profile defendants in criminal investigations.
Clare is hands-on, quickly getting to core of issues. She cuts through noise and gets to the point. She's very sensible in her advice. She deals a lot with areas of law where there is an interlacing of criminal, civil and regulatory law. That's a major feature of her work since joining Fountain Court. She is my go-to silk for anything difficult. She represents a lot of high net worth individuals: they're often complex characters, and she is able to present difficult advice to them in a direct but confident way, providing clients a means by which to take it on board.
Clare is a leader in field. She is robust and she takes a position on difficult questions. Less-good barristers sit on the fence; Clare comes to a conclusion and defends her position, and I like that about her.
Clare Sibson is making real strides in the criminal/civil law area. She is a fantastic advocate: very effective and someone you want on your side.
Richard Lissack KC is recognised for his experience handling bribery, fraud and corruption allegations. Lissack's cases include some of the most high-profile fraud and corruption investigations.
Katherine Hardcastle is well regarded for her financial crime practice. She is regularly instructed to represent high net worth individuals facing high-profile investigations.
Leonora Sagan is an up-and-coming junior focused on handling financial crime cases. Sagan has previous experience at a major US white-collar criminal defence firm and is building a strong reputation in SFO and FCA investigations matters.
Leonora's excellent: really clever, highly articulate and her paperwork is a work of art.
Leonora is super bright and great at criminal and civil fraud work.
Leonora Sagan has a very interesting practice: she deals with civil, criminal and regulatory matters, which makes her especially good for cross-over work.
Robin Barclay KC is a specialist in financial crime cases, economic sanctions, commercial work and banking litigation. Barclay is particularly expert in SFO and FCA investigation matters.
Robin is very responsive. He is also robust: he stands by his advice where sometimes there can be a number of interpretations.
