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Band 4

Financial Crime

London (Bar)

8 Years Ranked

About

Provided by Edmund Burge KC

UK Bar

Practice Areas

Edmund Burge K.C. specialises in financial and commercial crime. His cases frequently involve multi-defendant trials with an international dimension, and often raise complex issues of jurisdiction and disclosure.

He also provides pre-charge advice on the strategy of responding to on-going investigations, particularly into allegations of cross-border criminality.

He was called by Lincoln’s Inn in 1997 and took Silk in 2019. He is a Recorder of the Crown Court and the County Court, and is authorised to sit at the Old Bailey.

Career

Current/recent instructions include:

Op Barbados, prosecuting a 24-handed £20m VAT-fraud, over four 16-week trials.

Project Cortez, conducting the private prosecution of an ex-director of the corporate trustee of a private family trust, accused of defrauding it of over $1m.

- Re: SFO v. S: Advising a former director of an international gas & oil exploration company on the SFO's jurisdiction over allegations of bribery and corruption in the awarding of overseas contracts by foreign states.

- Re: A Trust: Advising a billion-dollar off-shore trust on its remedies and response to the seizure of its records by law-enforcement agents, and allegations of large-scale tax fraud.

- Op Afterburner, advising on the on-going investigation into the unlicenced supply of fighter jets, surface-to-air missiles and radar defence systems to embargoed or sanctioned states in Africa and the middle east.

- NCA v. Filat, representing an overseas PEP in the first ever appeal against an Account Forfeiture Order.

Publications

Contributing editor to Phipson on Evidence.

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