Alan Bacarese joins Peters & Peters as Special Counsel

Alan Bacarese, the Legal Head at The International Centre for Asset Recovery (‘ICAR’) in Basel, Switzerland has joined Peters & Peters on 1 August 2011 as a full time Special Counsel.

Alan Bacarese is a leading UK and international anti corruption expert. Alan specialises in corruption (domestic and trans national), money laundering, mutual legal assistance and fraud, with a wealth of experience as the recent Head of Legal and Case Consultancy at the International Centre for Asset Recovery, Basel, Switzerland.

Alan is a co-author of the leading UK Legal text book on Corruption and Misuse of Public Office (Oxford University Press) due to be published in September 2011 and ‘The Good Fraud Guide: the UK Handbook of Fraud Investigation, Prevention and Sanctions’ (Gower Publishing 2011).

Alan was called to the Bar in 1988 and worked within the Crown Prosecution Service (CPS) and its HQ’s Policy Directorate and European and International Division for much of his career until 2007. A fluent Spanish speaker he has worked on large scale international cases involving Spain and other Spanish speaking countries. He led on domestic and international corruption and on high profile human rights issues.

Alan has worked extensively in the international field as a member of the UK’s delegation to the OECD’s Working Group on Bribery between 2002 to 2007, but also as a technical adviser to the UN, EU and other international organisations on corruption related work.  In 2007 Alan was seconded to the newly created International Centre for Asset Recovery and lead on money laundering, anti-corruption, financial investigations and asset recovery cases in a number of jurisdictions whilst also working directly with the leading international agencies in this field such as the StAR Initiative of the World Bank and UN Office of Drugs and Crime, as well as with investigators and lawyers in the International Criminal Court and the Global Fund.

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