Financial Crime: High Net Worth Individuals - UK-wide
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What the Team is Known For
Hickman & Rose acts for clients on significant financial crime matters. Its team members often advise individuals as part of major investigations.
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Financial Crime: High Net Worth Individuals
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Strengths
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There is excellence at every level within Hickman & Rose. They are an exceptional team providing an exceptional service. What sets them apart is that they are less focused on what might be described as the bells and whistles, and instead are focused entirely on ruthless efficiency and excellence. That's what makes them one of the best.
Financial Crime: High Net Worth Individuals respondentHigh Net WorthThe Hickman & Rose team are really a class outfit. Their client care is superb, their people are excellent, and they rightly attract the highest-quality work and the highest-quality clients because you get a bespoke service from them; it's the Savile Row of criminal practice. The partners are deeply embedded in client service.
Financial Crime: High Net Worth Individuals respondentHigh Net WorthHickman & Rose is top drawer – amazing ability and easy to work with.
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Notable Practitioners
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Band 1 Ross Dixon
Ross Dixon advises high net worth individuals under investigation by the SFO and the FCA. Ross Dixon is one of the pre-eminent white collar crime litigators in the country. He is extremely well known and very experienced in SFO investigations and FCA matters.
Financial Crime: High Net Worth Individuals respondentHigh Net WorthRoss Dixon is understated and unassuming, but an absolutely brilliant lawyer with phenomenal instincts. His calm and collected demeanour puts everyone at ease, and he really uses that to devastating effect. He is brilliant at navigating complex cases and giving clear, strategic advice to clients.
Financial Crime: High Net Worth Individuals respondentHigh Net WorthRoss Dixon is incredibly personable and knowledgeable. It's always reassuring to have him there in the room.
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Band 2 Ben Rose
Ben Rose frequently advises high net worth clients on high-profile fraud, bribery and corruption matters. Ben Rose is one of the most charismatic solicitors, but this belies a steely and wise analytical ability. He sees both the big picture and the little details.
Financial Crime: High Net Worth Individuals respondentHigh Net WorthBen Rose combines a relentless determination with fairly effortless charm. Clients love him.
Financial Crime: High Net Worth Individuals respondentHigh Net WorthBen is slick – a real expert. He has great depth in the field and is immensely well respected in white-collar crime. He comes with solutions and puts clients at ease.
Financial Crime: High Net Worth Individuals respondentHigh Net WorthBen is an eminence gris of the London law community: he does it all, knows everyone and does it all brilliantly – one of a kind.
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Band 4 Andrew P Katzen
Andrew Katzen is well regarded in the UK financial crime space for his experience in advising clients on a range of matters, including allegations of money laundering and bribery.
Andrew is a very safe pair of hands – a very good boutique solicitor for high-end private work.
Financial Crime: High Net Worth Individuals respondentHigh Net WorthAndrew is very bright, absolutely gets right to the point every time and is very good with his clients.
Financial Crime: High Net Worth Individuals respondentHigh Net WorthAndrew is one of the nicest solicitors you could work with. He's very thoughtful, careful, clever and organised. He is very experienced in financial crime and regulatory work, where he specialises.
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Band 4 Christopher Houssemayne du Boulay
Christopher Houssemayne du Boulay often works on complex financial crime and regulatory matters.
That Chris was made a partner so quickly is testament to how incredibly clever he is, and he just gets better and better. It’s no exaggeration to say that he wins cases. He's enormously talented.
Financial Crime: High Net Worth Individuals respondentHigh Net WorthChristopher is an absolute machine: the speed at which he can process information suggests that he must have encyclopaedic knowledge and a photographic memory. His legal acumen is second to none.
Financial Crime: High Net Worth Individuals respondentHigh Net WorthChristopher is super bright, and his ability to master massive amounts of complex information and use it is masterful.
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Band 4 Emily Sheils
Emily Sheils advises her high-net worth and ultra high net worth clients on a wide range of financial crime matters, including those with high profiles.
Emily is really sharp, with a lovely manner with clients and professional colleagues. She is tenacious, an iron fist in a velvet glove. Steely, but she presents it in a very warm way, which is very effective.
Financial Crime: High Net Worth Individuals respondentHigh Net WorthEmily is understated, but powerfully confident; a real pleasure to work with. She's very collaborative and has a strong knowledge base. She remains very calm and reassuring throughout a case.
Financial Crime: High Net Worth Individuals respondentHigh Net WorthEmily is lovely; she's got deep empathy for her clients, and that produces someone who works incredibly hard for them. She shows excellent client care.
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Ranked Individuals at Hickman & Rose (5)
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Ross Dixon
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