Amanda Pinto KC

Practice Areas

Expert in international financial wrongdoing, nominated as Corporate Crime KC of the Year, Amanda appears in major corporate crime, fraud, corruption and money laundering cases, often raising complex, international conflict issues.

Amanda’s strategic vision and advocacy skills attract clients from global organisations, government agencies and SMEs, to company directors and private clients, including individual government Ministers. She leads private prosecutions and investigations and works directly with overseas lawyers on multi-jurisdictional operations, corporate arrangements and sanctions. She is currently instructed by city law firms with internal investigations and regulatory issues. Amanda advises on applications for and challenges to freezing, production and forfeiture orders, the interface of civil, crime and regulation, such as data protection and privilege, financial instruments, takeover challenges and investment schemes. As Chair of the Bar in 2020, she is very familiar with negotiating with government Ministers, officials and judges at the highest levels. In 2021, Amanda is an appointed P.R.I.M.E. Finance expert for her expertise in complex financial instruments in fraud.

Career

Year of Call: 1983, Silk 2006, Recorder 2004

Professional Memberships

Chair of the Bar of England & Wales- 2020; Bencher of the Middle Temple- 2012

Trustee of Paintings in Hospitals 2023- ; Trustee of the Race Equality Foundation- 2022- ;

Deputy Chair of the Tate Members’ Council-2018-2020; Trustee of the Slynn Foundation- 2015- 2024

Publications

Co-Author Corporate Criminal Liability by Pinto and Evans (4th Edition 2021)

Co-Editor Pinto, Haines and O’Sullivan on Sanctions

Contributor to Blackstone’s Criminal Practice (corporate liability), and Smith, Owen, and Bodnar on Asset Recovery, OUP (sanctions).