Anita Clifford

Anita Clifford has a financial crime practice and represents individuals and corporates in criminal proceedings and civil proceeds of crime matters including restraint applications and account forfeiture. She has a wealth of experience handling money laundering investigations brought by regulators and is entrusted to advise leading law firms, corporates and individuals on sensitive POCA and sanctions issues. Dual-qualified, Anita was a solicitor in Australia from 2011 before joining the Bar of England & Wales in 2017. Her recent work includes defending an executive facing a multi million pound restraint, acting for a corporate on an account forfeiture order in excess of £1 million, defending the CEO on a high profile bribery prosecution, advising a company executive under investigation by the Insolvency Service, advising insurers on trade credit claims in the context of UK sanctions regime and advising on Suspicious Activity Reporting in relation to high value commercial property transactions. She was part of the counsel team that successfully represented the appellant in the landmark case of WUC v NCA [2024] EWCA Civ 715 which considered the effect of POCA on tainted supply chains for the first time. She is a contributor to Lloyds Law Reports on Financial Crime.