Chambers Review
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Financial Crime: High Net Worth Individuals - London (Bar)
What the Team is Known For
Strengths
QEB Hollis Whiteman offers a significant breadth of leading and junior counsel. You can be assured that the excellent clerks will appoint suitable counsel in the event of a return or clash of dates.
The clerking at QEB Hollis Whiteman is really good: they get back to me quickly, and the clerking team knows what they are talking about.
There are very strong leaders and juniors at this set, capable of dealing with highly complex matters.
Notable practitioners
Adrian Darbishire is involved in heavyweight serious fraud prosecution cases.
He's among the very best. He is incredibly bright and his advocacy is really brilliant, his style is of his own and makes you sit up and listen: he creates a ripple around the courtroom.
Adrian is fantastic as he has an incredible legal brain and does some of my favourite drafting; he makes them sound very simple.
He is very easy to work with; he is a decent and grounded person, extremely detail-oriented. He likes to read through everything - he is really on it, a lateral thinker.
For me, Rachna is by far the best junior at the Bar for financial crime. She is incredibly hardworking, diligent and has huge experience having worked on various SFO cases. She's absolutely fantastic.
Rachna is the best junior at the Bar: she has a phenomenal legal brain, really cares about her clients and puts her all into her work. An incredible work ethic, and you get fantastic output from her.
Rachna's very incisive in her legal analysis and able to cut to the chase very rapidly and insightfully, but she also has a lovely manner with clients so they immediately warm to her and trust her.
Jason's knowledge of the FCA handbook is second to none, and he's always good at thinking of strategies that are novel and unusual but will also ultimately exceed expectation.
Jason's true specialism is financial conduct cases and civil regulatory proceedings. He is the most well-regarded barrister, junior or silk in this work. Unsurpassed in his knowledge of FCA matters.
Jason Mansell is very robust and very good on his feet. He gets immersed in the detail.
Sean Larkin is very able, very softly spoken and clients love him: I could listen to his voice all day, and he is very reassuring and very bright. I run out of superlatives to describe him.
Sean remains one of the leading KCs in the UK for complex fraud and white-collar matters.
Ben FitzGerald is a deep thinker and very steady, reliable, with great judgement. No weaknesses.
I have found Ben FitzGerald to be an exceptional barrister who is responsive, personable, adaptable and highly attuned to recent developments.
Ben's excellent with clients and knows business very well, and is able to tailor his advice and work to suit.
Mark Ellison KC acts in financial crime investigations relating to fraud, money laundering, bribery and corruption.
Mark Ellison is a former prosecutor and someone who everybody trusts. Absolutely impeccable.
Tom Doble is really clever and an excellent advocate. A very good lawyer with an excellent mastery of the brief.
Tom Doble is very good - I think he is going places and will do very well going forward.
Jocelyn Ledward KC acts for high net worth individuals in matters related to fraud, bribery and corruption, and money laundering. Ledward is Senior Treasury Counsel and has strong experience both in defence and prosecution work.
Jocelyn Ledward KC is extremely knowledgeable about handling big-stakes criminal cases.