Jessica Tate

Practice Areas

Jessica Tate has a wide-ranging white-collar crime practice encompassing high value fraud, money laundering, bribery, sanctions and corruption cases, particularly large scale company fraud.

She is instructed in both civil and criminal international cases involving restraint, forfeiture and confiscation, including advising on discharging or varying restraint orders at an early stage in proceedings. She has acted in cases flowing from ‘Operation Car Wash’, the biggest corruption scandal in the history of Latin America. Many of her cases involve multiple jurisdictions, including countries in Latin and Central America, USA, Switzerland and Africa. These ‘cross border’ cases often require an understanding of global currency trades, particularly in countries that predominantly remain ‘cash’ economies.

She regularly acts for clients who have been subject to politically motivated prosecutions, advising on how the overlap between political bias or regime change can affect a decision to prosecute, and the subsequent fairness of those proceedings, or the creation of new legislation that adversely affects an individual’s personal or business interests. Such cases can call into question the compatibility of foreign and UK legislation. These cases usually involve both civil and criminal proceedings and therefore require careful strategizing to protect the client’s best interests in both sets of proceedings, including how the civil matter may assist the criminal case and vice versa.

She further specialises in the niche area of cryptocurrency, specifically in cases where the prosecution have misunderstood how those currencies operate resulting in client’s assets being unfairly restrained and incorrect allegations of criminality charged against them.