Christopher Convey

Practice Areas

Domestic and international commercial wrongdoing with a particular specialism in civil and criminal fraud, corporate crime, money laundering, asset forfeiture, professional regulation and discipline.

Career

Christopher is one of the few advocates who has maintained a genuine civil and criminal practice throughout his practice at the Bar. 

High-profile cases include acting in Mozambique v Credit Suisse International (‘Tuna Bonds’), representing a City law firm in a successful defence against a claim by the SRA of money laundering breaches, defending in the EURIBOR and UBS LIBOR cases, the defence of Asil Nadir, representing the US DoJ in the matter of Stanford International Bank and the defence of a major pharmaceuticals company in a restrictive practices claim brought against it by the Department of Health.   

Other examples of his practice include a multi-million pound travel industry fraud, a multi-million pound construction industry fraud and money laundering operation, the successful defence of a solicitor charged with money laundering and the successful representation of a solicitor accused of perverting the course of justice. 

His international work has included acting for offshore trust companies in the Channel Islands, successfully acting in the defence in the money laundering case Boyle & Boyle in Guernsey and representing HM Attorneys General of Jersey (O’Brien & Ors) and the Turks and Caicos Islands (AG v Hape and AG v Hall)  

Publications

Contributing editor to Mitchell, Taylor & Talbot on Confiscation and the Proceeds of Crime