• 'For financial crime, the set assures first-class representation.' Chambers UK 2023
  • '‘Good clerks and strong chambers for business crime.‘ Legal 500 2023
  • '‘QEB has some fantastic junior counsel making it one of the strongest all round sets for financial crime.‘  Legal 500 2023

Corporate and Financial Crime News

Nicholas Griffin KC writes about modern slavery and supply chain transparency in the current issue of the I.C.C.L.R

The article,  The Modern Slavery Act 2015 and the evolution of supply chain transparency in the UK (I.C.C.L.R. 2024, 35(1), 4-16), was written with Sian Lea, who is the Business and Human Rights Manager at Anti-Slavery...

The GIR Guide to Compliance - Edition 2 is published. Fallon Alexis co-authors chapter on UK Compliance Enforcement

The Guide to Compliance - Edition 2 , is published by GIR, with Fallon Alexis contributing to Part 1: Global Compliance Requirements and Enforcement. Fallon Alexis co-authored the chapter on UK Compliance Enforcement with Alison Pople of Cloth Fair...

QEB Hollis Whiteman Recognised by Chambers & Partners Financial Crime: High Net Worth Individuals

  Chambers and Partners released their rankings for Financial Crime: High Net Worth Individuals and QEB Hollis Whiteman and its members are acknowledged as leaders in the field. Chambers is ranked as Band 1 and nine members of Chambers ...

Trader Tom Hayes' case referred back to Court of Appeal

  In 2015, Tom Hayes was convicted of eight charges of conspiracy to defraud and sentenced to 14 years’ imprisonment.  The crimes of which he was convicted arose from alleged manipulation of the London Interbank Offered Rate (LIBOR). ...

Rhys Meggy wins Financial Crime Junior of the Year at the Legal 500 Bar Awards

On Wednesday 5th October, Legal 500 hosted their standalone Bar Awards recognising barristers of all levels of seniority, clerks, other chambers professionals in London and across England, Scotland and Wales. We're delighted that...

William Boyce QC represents MOL Group who were awarded $235 million in damages in ICSID Arbitration

5 th of July 2022, Washington DC  The Republic of Croatia has lost an international arbitration case launched by MOL, the Hungarian national oil and gas company over Zagreb's failure to adhere to obligations under an agreement concerning the gas...

Cryptocurrency Firm Secures MLR 2017 Registration

Jason Mansell and Rhys Meggy instructed by Jill Lorimer and Anna Holmes at Kingsley Napley LLP acted for a cryptocurrency firm at an oral hearing before the FCA’s Regulatory Decisions Committee to determine whether the Firm met the statutory...

Paul Hastings and QEB Hollis Whiteman Chambers co-host a seminar on the overturned bribery convictions of ex-Unaoil executive, Ziad Akle. Adrian Darbishire QC and Mark Aldred are speakers.

Paul Hastings and QEB Hollis Whiteman co-hosted a joint in-person and live-streamed seminar on the overturned bribery convictions of ex-Unaoil executive, Ziad Akle. Jonathan Pickworth chaired the evening, and Adrian Darbishire QC, Joanna...

Mark Ellison QC and Kathryn Hughes act for the FRC in their case against KPMG

Mark Ellison QC and Kathryn Hughes act for the FRC in 'The Executive Counsel to the FRC v KPMG, Peter Noel Meehan, Alistair Wright, Richard William Kitchen, Adam David Bennett, Pratik Paw, Stuart Peter and James Smith (alongside ...

Unaoil Convictions Quashed, Adrian Darbishire QC and Mark Aldred represent the successful appellant, Ziad Akle (10.12.2021)

This morning, the Court of Appeal Criminal Division handed down its decision in the appeal of Ziad Akle, former Unaoil employee, against his convictions for offences of bribery. The Court quashed Mr Akle's convictions and refused the SFO's request...

Tom Phillips awarded Pegasus Scholarship to Uganda

Tom Phillips has recently commenced his placement as a Pegasus Scholar in Uganda having been awarded the prestigious scholarship earlier this year. Tom is currently based within the High Court of Uganda and is working under the supervision of the Chief...

QEB Hollis Whiteman Recognised by Chambers & Partners Financial Crime: High Net Worth Individuals

Chambers and Partners released their rankings for Financial Crime: High Net Worth Individuals today and QEB Hollis Whiteman and its members are acknowledged as leaders in the field. Chambers is ranked as Band 1 with sources describing us as "a set...
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