Lewis MacDonald

Lewis MacDonald is ranked as a leading practitioner across his main practice areas in both key directories: fraud and financial crime, private prosecutions, and professional discipline. Chambers UK describes him as “a silk in the making and a junior of choice… his written and oral advocacy match each other in excellence.” He is frequently instructed in document-heavy cases raising complex issues of fact and law.

In criminal law, Lewis acts for both prosecution and defence across serious offences, from violence and terrorism to large-scale fraud. His practice increasingly focuses on white-collar and business crime, consumer offences, and asset forfeiture. He is currently representing a defendant solicitor in the SFO’s fraud prosecution arising from the SRA’s intervention into Axiom Ince.

Lewis is a go-to junior for private prosecutions, acting in significant fraud cases for and against private prosecutors.

In regulatory work, he has extensive experience before various regulators in complex or high-profile cases, most often acting for solicitors, accountants, police, sports, and medical professionals. He has handled complex Article 2 and jury inquests, statutory and non-statutory inquiries, and inquests and criminal proceedings in medical and health and safety contexts.

He also applies his fraud expertise in tax tribunal cases, particularly MTIC denials, penalties, and Border Force matters.

CPS Advocate Panel Level 3

SFO B Panel

Called 2014