Keith Oliver
Senior Partner
Senior partner and head of Commercial Litigation/Commercial Fraud. Specialises in heavyweight and complex trust litigation and disputes and international asset tracing and recovery. Strong experience of cross border claims, crisis management and fraud/regulatory related insolvency litigation.
Keith trained at Peters & Peters and became a partner here in 1983. He became Senior Partner on 1 May 2005.
Keith specialises in commercial, regulatory and insolvency litigation, and heads up the specialist civil fraud team at Peters & Peters. He has extensive experience of UK and international asset tracing, including the use of emergency relief procedures, and is often involved in multi jurisdictional actions in the USA, continental Europe and worldwide. He represents both individuals and major corporate clients in Companies Act and Financial Services and Markets Act investigations and prosecutions, and is widely recognised as one of the UK's leading lawyers in civil fraud.
In recent years he has led the teams involved in the international asset tracing on behalf of the shareholders of Banco Noroeste of Brazil and for the NHS counter-fraud service in high profile litigation against a number of pharmaceutical companies.
He lectures and has delivered papers on financial regulation, insider trading, money laundering, whistleblowing, international asset tracing, abuse of process, jurisdictional issues and media coverage of high-profile trials.
Keith is Vice President d'Honneur of the Association Internationale des Jeunes Avocats (AIJA) and founding past president of AIJA Commercial Fraud Commission. He is a member of the International Bar Association and the British Italian Law Association. Keith is ranked as an expert in Legal Experts 2009.
"The "brilliant and charming" Keith Oliver makes his clients "exceedingly happy" with expertise spanning both civil and criminal fraud matters" (Chambers 2005).
Quotes about Keith Oliver from ‘Chambers UK 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.
Quotes from 'The Legal 500 - 2009'
"'The 'flamboyant and outgoing’ Keith Oliver is ‘very knowledgeable’ and ‘strategically very sound’, and has ‘a big-picture mentality’ "
"Senior partner Keith Oliver heads the first-class team".
Quotes about Keith Oliver from ‘Chambers UK 2009’
…the “drive and unassailable quality” of Keith Oliver being a major factor in the development of the practice and its position at the vanguard of the commercial arena.
Noted for his “almost magical ability to negotiate a deal and get extra value," he is currently acting in a USD300 million claim issued by a Swiss-based finance house against Jersey entities linked to the high-profile Formula One litigation.
Quotes from 'The Legal 500 - 2008'
The ‘tenacious’ yet ‘realistic’ team includes Keith Oliver .... maintains perspective’ in order to‘ secure the desired outcome’.
" Senior figure Keith Oliver has an excellent reputation"'