Practice Areas
Barry is a specialist in asset forfeiture and proceeds of crime. He is a co-contributor to the Chapter on Insolvency in the recently published work Smith & Owen on Asset Recovery etc.
His practice also encompasses the complementary areas of commercial litigation, civil fraud, and insolvency. He also acts for defendants in substantial confiscation proceedings, and TPs asserting legal and beneficial rights. He is regularly instructed by IPs where there is a conflict between restraint and insolvency as well as on behalf of court-appointed receivers in multi £m recovery cases. Barry has acted in most of the leading reported receivership cases. Recent cases include acting for: The TiBs in R v James Stunt; Special Administrators; the Official Receiver/Liquidator of various companies to recover insolvency costs in POCA restraint proceedings in the case of Gopee and the recovery of assets by the ER; acting for several Liquidators of companies in AFOs, cash seizures and the recovery of company assets; acting for the Receiver in the case of R v A Patel with a recent Confiscation Order of c£90m. Recent High Court actions have included: advising a Claimant on a multi £m civil claim against a foreign bank, acting for the defendant company and its director in an alleged pension/bribery fraud; and acting for a former company director in alleged £multi-million fraud.
