"stars of their profession" - Legal 500, 2010

Keith Oliver

Keith Oliver is Senior Partner and head of Commercial Litigation/Commercial Fraud. Specialises in heavyweight and complex trust litigation and disputes and international asset freezing, tracing and recovery. Over 30 years experience of major international litigation, crisis and reputational management and business crime related and trust litigation.

Senior Partner

Comm Lit / Civil Fraud

+44 (0)20 7822 7722

keoliver@petersandpeters.com

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Keith trained at Peters & Peters and became a Partner in 1983. He was appointed Senior Partner on 1 May 2005.

Keith specialises in commercial, regulatory and trust litigation, and heads  the specialist commercial litigation and civil fraud and asset freezing team at Peters & Peters. He has spent his career specialising in international disputes and the location, freezing and recovery of misappropriated assets involving emergency relief procedures and the management of legal teams from many jurisdictions.  His work often involves multi jurisdictional actions in the USA, continental Europe and worldwide.  He is widely recognised as one of the UK's leading lawyers in civil fraud with a reputation for addressing and resolving the most intractable of disputes and crises faced by individuals and companies. Keith's outstanding talent as a Litigation expert was recognised in 'The Lawyer Hot 100 2012'.

He lectures and has delivered papers on asset freezing, financial regulation, insider trading, money laundering, whistleblowing, international asset tracing, abuse of process, jurisdictional issues and media coverage of high-profile trials and is the joint chair of the annual C5 Asset Tracing Conference held in London, Geneva and most recently Dubai.

Specialist areas

  • Commercial, regulatory and insolvency litigation
  • Heavyweight and complex trust litigation and disputes
  • International asset tracing and recovery
  • Strong experience of cross border claims, crisis management and business crime related insolvency litigation

Quotes

“Keith Oliver is a highly regarded civil fraud practitioner with a wealth of experience of lengthy, high-profile cases. He has "good leadership skills and the ability to make a team work well together. “
Chambers UK 2011
"Senior partner Keith Oliver is head of the firm’s commercial litigation team. Sources praise his “tactical and creative approach," adding: "He’s a very charismatic leader, tremendous with clients and always organises his team well.”
Chambers UK 2011
“Keith Oliver ‘instils fear in the heart of the fraudster’.”
Legal 500 - 2010
“Keith Oliver is lauded for his strength as a negotiator: ‘He's strategically excellent and knows exactly where the weaknesses are on the other side.’ He is also commended for his conduct of large and long-running cases: ‘He has the rare ability to formulate and put into effect a long-term plan.’ He is currently acting for the London Strategic Health Authority in a claim by the NHS against a fraudulent prescription charges ring.”
Chambers UK 2010
Keith Oliver