Career
Ellis Sareen is a leading junior for cases of criminal and civil fraud and other financial misconduct. His practice is split roughly equally between criminal and civil cases, but ordinarily concerns alleged appropriation or misuse of money or other property, or commercial impropriety.
Ellis has particular experience in business crime, money laundering, asset forfeiture, ‘Part V’ civil recovery, restraint and receivership. He appears as leading advocate in criminal cases of substantial fraud and corruption. His civil work includes claims of dishonest assistance, misuse of trust property, deceit, conspiracy, and misuse of private information. Many of the cases in which he is instructed are legally complex, often with cross-jurisdictional issues.
Ellis is regularly instructed to lead teams of lawyers and investigators for claimants/prosecutors, and also to provide advice to individuals and companies facing civil or criminal suit or investigation. His work for private and other non-CPS prosecutors includes substantial fraud (around £90million) as well as regulatory offences. He has been instructed in cases in the Business and Property Courts, in the Chancery Division, in the Admin Court, in the QBD exercising its jurisdiction under PoCA and in the Media and Communications List, in the ICC, and in both divisions of the Court of Appeal.
Recent overseas work includes representing the defendants in criminal proceedings for conspiracy to defraud before the Supreme Court of Gibraltar, and then in a linked public inquiry. Ellis is presently working with lawyers in Curitiba, Brazil, in connection with the SFO’s largest ever claim for account forfeiture.
