Clifford Chance

Litigation experience

• R (on the application of Coll) v Secretary of State for Justice, advising the Howard League for Penal Reform as intervener (in support of the appellant’s case) in an appeal in the Supreme Court. The Supreme Court ruled in favour of the appellant.
• Antoine v Barclays & the Chief Land Registrar, advising Barclays in a dispute over the ownership of Property. The Court of Appeal upheld the High Court's decision in favour of Barclays & the Chief Land Registrar.
• Various v News Group Newspapers, defending News Group Newspapers in the High Court in relation to claims of unlawful information gathering brought by numerous high-profile individuals.
• advising a multinational investment bank on discrimination claims pursuant to the Equality Act 2010, a defamation claim, and fraudulent transaction claims.
• advising a minority shareholder of a Premier League football club in relation to a debt claim and an unfair prejudice claim.

Financial and regulatory experience

• advising a multinational investment bank in relation to investigations by various worldwide regulators and authorities into the wholesale FX market (alleged manipulation of currency benchmarks and exchange rates).
• advising a multinational investment bank in relation to an investigation by the FCA and PRA into the historical practice surrounding the pricing of international payments for FX transactions.
• advising a leading UK financial institution in relation to an investigation by the FCA into AML, sanctions systems and controls, client money issues and systems and controls issues around governance.
• advising three clients (a firm and two individuals) responding to an investigation conducted by the SFO at the request of an overseas criminal authority under mutual legal assistance.
• advising a major retail and commercial bank in its response to a s.166 skilled person investigation into financial crime failings.