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About
Provided by Jonathan Fisher KC
Practice Areas
Specialises in financial crime and corporate crime cases, particularly involving money laundering and economic sanctions. Advisory work has included cases involving commercial money laundering, source of funds, unexplained wealth orders and OFAC / OFSI sanctions. Advising and representing individuals and companies in courts and tribunals, at trial and on appeal. Internationally, giving expert evidence in arbitration hearings and has worked with the European Union (Max Planck Institute), Council of Europe, and African Union on illicit enrichment, corruption, and money laundering projects. Court work has included R (World Uyghur Congress) v NCA (money laundering and civil recovery investigations, criminal property, adequate consideration), Nest Investments v Deloitte (auditor’s alleged failure to identify money laundering and terrorist financing, and SFO v ENRC (dispute over the application of legal privilege in corporate investigations).
Career
Called 1980; Silk 2003; Chartered Tax Adviser (Fellow); Accredited STEP practitioner; PhD (Lond); Dubai International Financial Court (registered practitioner); Lloyds Financial Crime Reports (Editor Emeritus); Chair of Independent Review on Unused Material in Criminal Cases and Fraud; London School of Economics (Senior Fellow and Visiting Professor).
Professional Memberships
Criminal Bar Association; South Eastern Circuit.
Publications
Regular contributor to books, professional journals, and the media.