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Maria Cronin

Maria Cronin is an associate with experience in business crime, including multi-jurisdictional cases, cartel investigations, SFO prosecutions, corruption investigations, and contentious FSA regulatory work.

Associate

Business Crime

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Maria joined Peters & Peters in 2008. She trained in both the Business Crime Team and Civil Fraud and Commercial Litigation departments. She successfully qualified into the Business Crime Team department in 2010.

In 2010, Maria also undertook a secondment to an international sports, entertainment and media company.

Since joining Peters & Peters, Maria’s work has ranged from high profile white collar crime to complex regulatory matters. Her experience encompasses acting for individuals and corporate clients in the following areas:

  • OFT cartel investigations
  • SFO and City of London Police corruption investigations
  • Contentious FSA regulatory work
  • Money laundering
  • Internal company investigations into potential frauds

Maria continues to also gain increased experience across the department’s other main areas of practice, including extradition and mutual legal assistance.

Maria is a native French speaker and is fluent in Russian and German.

Highlight cases:

  • Acting for a multi-national company in a global corruption investigation
  • Acting for a company and CEO in relation to alleged breaches of FSMA 2000.
Maria Cronin