David McCluskey

David joined Peters & Peters in 1998. Prior to joining he trained and qualified as an attorney in South Africa, and was admitted as a solicitor in the UK in 1998.

David has considerable experience in acting for individual and corporate clients in a wide range of business crime and regulatory investigations. In particular, David regularly advises clients on fraud investigations, money laundering, insider dealing/market abuse, sanctions, and other fraud and corruption matters in the UK and overseas.

David is a regular speaker and commentator on business crime issues such as mortgage fraud, risk management, money laundering compliance, fraud prevention and corruption. In March 2012, David was appointed as a member of the Law Society’s Money Laundering Task Force. In September 2012 David was ranked as a 'leading lawyer' by Legal 500 2012 in the Fraud: White Collar Crime, Fraud, and Financial Services categories.  

Most recent cases include:

• Advising an Iranian businessman on an appeal against conviction for breaching export restrictions to Iran;
• Advising an individual under investigation in Operation Elveden;
• Advising an Egyptian company director on Mutual Legal Assistance and Extradition issues arising out of a conviction in that country relating to corporate manslaughter;
• Advising a Russian company director on Extradition and Mutual Legal Assistance and civil recovery issues arising out of allegations made by his former employer in Russia;
• Advising a UK businessman in relation to an SFO investigation into alleged corruption in the UK and West Africa;
• Advising a technology start-up company on recovering funds misappropriated by a former director and CEO, including obtaining worldwide freezing injunctions and gathering evidence from across Europe;
• Advising a wealthy and high profile international businessman on a successful challenge to the legality of an SFO search conducted at his home;
• Advising a firm of solicitors on their obligations after the discovery of potentially serious compliance and AML breaches by a person working at the firm.