Pension and Investment Fraud

I recently prepared an expert report in a complex pensions and financial services matter involving the operation of pension transfer arrangements, occupational pension schemes, SIPPs, overseas pension schemes and related investment structures. The work required...

Insider Trading

I recently prepared a further expert report in a market abuse matter concerning the price sensitivity of equity placing announcements. The work examined whether announcements relating to proposed share sales or new share issues were likely to have had a significant...

Crypto Tracing

I recently participated in a joint experts’ discussion and addendum report in a cryptocurrency tracing matter. The work focused on further analysis of Bitcoin movements into a Wasabi wallet, onward transfers into a recovered wallet, subsequent swaps into stablecoins,...

Crypto Case Report. Legal Aid Funded

I recently completed an expert report in a criminal matter involving the tracing of multiple cryptocurrency movements across exchange accounts, private wallets and blockchain transactions. The work required an independent reconciliation of prosecution tracing evidence...

COMPLIANCE AND ANTI MONEY LAUNDERING

I recently prepared an expert report examining the compliance and regulatory performance of a payment services business across a number of customer and merchant cases. The review considered KYC, AML checks, transaction monitoring, internal communications, record...

Bridging Loans

An expert report was prepared for court proceedings concerning six short-term bridging or peer-to-peer loans advanced in 2013–2014. The report considered whether the contractual and post-term interest rates were consistent with market practice at the time, taking into...