Adam Kane KC

Practice Areas

Adam Kane KC is a leading Silk and specialist in white-collar crime. He acts for clients in high-profile proceedings brought by the Serious Fraud Office, the Financial Conduct Authority and HMRC. He has particular expertise in investment fraud and a wealth of experience defending cases of financial-market abuse. He advises and appears in high-profile bribery, corruption and ‘misconduct in public office’ cases. He represented the turnaround consultancy accountant in HBOS, the chief engineer at Harrods in the Royal Household corruption case, and acted at first instance and on appeal for the cartel organiser in the Marine-Hose case (the first prosecution of Cartel Offending under the Enterprise Act).Most recent cases include a solicitor acquitted of all counts in a £10 million property development fraud, and a solicitor acquitted of a £5 million wealth-management and trust fraud.

Adam Kane KC has a nationwide practice as a defence specialist in homicide. In addition to organised crime and gangland killings, he specialises in defending very young (13, 14 and 16 year-olds recently) and vulnerable people charged with murder. He also acts in gross negligence and corporate manslaughter cases complimentary to his fraud expertise.

Adam Kane KC advises and appears for respondents to pre-action restraint proceedings in the Crown and High Courts, in all aspects of confiscation proceedings, and in the adequacy and enforcement of confiscation orders. He brings his forensic expertise in fraud, and knowledge and experience of organised crime, to asset portfolios often valued in the millions and overseas assets with jurisdictional issues.