Mark Rainsford KC

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Mark Rainsford KC is widely recognised, both nationally and internationally, as one of the UK's leading criminal King's Counsel. Ranked Tier 1 (top ranked) in Legal 500 2024 for Business Crime, Regulatory, and Global investigations silks, where he is also ranked as a leading silk in the fields of Proceeds of Crime and Asset Recovery (Tier 2), and Financial Crime (Tier2).

With exceptional expertise in cases concerning bribery and corruption in the banking sector, money laundering and commercial fraud, Mark has extensive litigation and advisory experience, and is an outstanding cross-examiner. According to LEGAL 500 2023:

‘He is very much a strategic thinker and continually reviews his client’s position, to explore every single avenue. Extremely brilliant on his feet in court and also very persuasive on his written advocacy.’

Delivering a commanding level of expertise and strategic oversight, together with a range of exemplary advocacy and advisory skills, Mark has fought and won numerous major criminal trials, both defending and prosecuting. These include cases investigated by SFO, HMRC, the CPS, and the DoJ and SEC. He has successfully defended and prosecuted massive scale fraud, corruption, and money laundering trails, and has secured many non-prosecution outcomes for banking, legal, accounting and other professionals, representing them in both criminal trials/pre-charge investigations, and parallel commercial/civil cases and investigations.

Mark, represents UHNW/HNW individuals, company directors, FTSE 100, FTSE 250, Fortune 500, companies, law firms, accounting firms, investment banks, and SMEs. He also represents governments and other organisations. He is experienced with DoJ/SEC whistle-blower cases.