Andrew Mitchell KC

Practice Areas

Advises clients internationally and domestically in compliance issues, civil and criminal asset forfeiture, confiscation and restraint, financial crime, commercial wrongdoing and corruption.

Advises countries, multinationals, professionals, prosecuting authorities, defendants, court appointed officers and third parties in all aspects of the restraint, management and confiscation of property and on the practice and procedure in relation to money laundering regulations and legislation, compliance, fraud, corruption and civil commercial wrongdoing. Cases include prosecution of politicians and attorneys relating to corruption in property developments in the Caribbean; advices in respect to overseas and UK-based corruption with particular focus on the Bribery Act; advising UHNW on the proposed structural changes to the compliance regime in Jersey; acting for the Nigerian Government to recoup funds stolen by a former oil minister; acting in civil recovery proceedings relating to corrupt payments to an ambassador from an energy company; advising the US DoJ in relation to US/Caribbean cross-jurisdictional issues. The Caribbean corruption case continues. Advising office management company compliance and Eastern European country on recovery of fraudulently obtained funds.

Career

Called to Bar 1976, Appointed Silk 1998. Recorder [Crime & Civil] 1998. Speaker/lecturer/consultant to UN, Commonwealth Secretariat, ESAAMLG, APG and IMF. Part of his work includes training and capacity building workshops for the judiciary and prosecutors in Southern and Eastern Africa, Asia, the Caribbean and the Pacific.

Publications

Confiscation and the Proceeds of Crime - co-author; 'Administrative Court Law and Practice' - contributor.