Quotes from The Legal 500 - 2009 (current edition)

1. Fraud - commercial and regulatory investigations, Peters & Peters is a first tier firm

Peters & Peters has a longstanding reputation as a leading firm in the area. The ‘flamboyant and outgoing’ Keith Oliver is ‘very knowledgeable’ and ‘strategically very sound’, and has ‘a big-picture mentality’, and Jonathan Tickner is a ‘very competent and impressive lawyer’. The practice successfully represented the London Strategic Health Authority on behalf of the NHS at trial in April 2008, recovering millions of pounds from pharmaceutical companies.

2. Fraud - crime, Peters & Peters is a first tier firm

Peters & Peters’ Anand Doobay acted for six former executives of Yukos in resisting extradition requests by the Russian Federation.

3. Customs & Excise Peters & Peters is a first tier firm

Peters & Peters is acknowledged as expert in tax investigations and regularly advises corporate clients and high-net-worth individuals who have become the subject of HMRC enquiries. With a focus on fraud and criminal matters, the practice is currently advising numerous clients as a result of HMRC’s success in gaining access to information about offshore accounts held by UK taxpayers. Monty Raphael and Sarah Gabriel are both recommended.

4. EU and competition

While this section focuses on corporate representation, for cartel criminal actions against executives, Peters & Peters (notably partner Michael O’Kane... is the ‘market-leading’ firm.

5. Financial services

Peters & Peters is recommended for market abuse cases. The team acted for an individual in an insider dealing investigation being conducted in Paris by the AMF. Monty Raphael ...is well regarded.

6. VAT and indirect tax

Peters & Peters’ practice focuses on contentious matters and investigations by HMRC. It acted in an appeal for a number of UK telecoms corporations concerning the HMRC’s refusal to repay more than £30m of VAT arising from the export of mobile phones. Sarah Gabriel and Monty Raphael are praised by clients.

7. Dispute resolution within Commercial litigation

While Peters & Peters is rightly regarded as one of the leading firms for civil fraud and white-collar crime, its wider commercial disputes practice is also highly recommended. A recent highlight was advising the Department of Health in over £100m-worth of price and supply fixing claims against several pharmaceutical companies. Senior partner Keith Oliver heads the first-class team.

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