Rachel Kapila

Rachel is regularly instructed to act for individual and corporate clients in the most serious and heavyweight white-collar investigations and prosecutions. She has a breadth of experience, with current and past instructions encompassing a wide range of offences, including fraud, bribery and corruption, false accounting, forgery, Revenue offences and money laundering. She acts for clients at all stages of criminal proceedings, from pre-charge advice, including advice in connection with the conduct of corporate internal investigations, to jury trials and appellate work.

Rachel’s advice is routinely sought on a wide range of ancillary matters, including privilege, search warrants, restraint, account freezing orders, forfeiture, and confiscation. She has experience in judicial review, appeals by way of case stated and habeas corpus applications. The cases in which she is instructed frequently involve parallel civil and regulatory proceedings and raise issues spanning multiple jurisdictions.

The multi-jurisdictional nature of Rachel’s practice is complemented by her expertise in extradition and MLA. She is regularly instructed in high profile extradition proceedings, particularly proceedings with a financial crime context. She has a substantial advisory practice in this area, advising clients in connection with anticipated extradition requests, Interpol notices and MLA requests.

Rachel also notably acted for a senior News of the World journalist charged with phone hacking, and defended an election agent accused, alongside a Conservative MP, of submitting false election expenses returns following the 2015 General Election. Rachel is one of very few juniors with expertise in criminal proceedings arising out of alleged breaches of electoral law.