Jason Sugarman KC

Practice Areas

Jason Sugarman KC's expertise extends to complex corporate criminal matters such as Intra-Community Carousel fraud, Serious Fraud Office Prosecution and defending commercial business crime cases, Financial Service Regulation and corruption cases.

Career

Specialises in white-collar commercial fraud cases with over 28 years’ experience of dealing with government departments including: currently on the SFO KC list (2020) (A List since 2013-17) BIS (formerly DTI), HMRC and Department of Work and Pensions. He has also been instructed a grade 4 specialist CPS prosecutor with specialisms in fraud, murder, and serious sexual offences including rape.

Recent high profile cases have include Vincent Tchenguiz in the aborted SFO investigation and a separate commercial fraud matter. He recently acted for Sir Frederick Barclay and his daughter Amanda with Brown Rudnick in the covert bugging case concerning the Ritz Hotel in 2020, successfully settled in 2020. Has also been instructed by corporates in complex fraud, breach of privacy and Data Protection cases. He was instructed by Dentons Milan and London as a banking regulatory expert in the bribery and corruption case against ENI/Shell that was prosecuted in Milan, Italy. In 2019 he was instructed to defend a former M.D. of the UK’s largest pharmaceutical brokerages concerning a complex data protection instructed by Blackfords LLP.