Rachel Cook

Following training with Peters & Peters, Rachel qualified into the Business Crime department in 2009.

Rachel works on a range of fraud, white collar crime and regulatory matters. Her experience encompasses:

• Multi-jurisdictional cartel investigations
• SFO investigations (including bribery and corruption offences)
• Contentious FSA regulatory work
• Money laundering (prosecution and compliance)
• CPS proceedings including (Official Secret Act breaches and perverting the course of justice offences)
• Forfeiture (including cash seizures)
• Mortgage fraud
• Professional disciplinary hearings
• Extradition
• Mutual legal assistance requests
• Tax fraud (Code of Practice 9)

Rachel is Consultant Editor of Lloyd’s Law Reports: Financial Crime please visit http://www.informaprofessional.com/publications/law_report/lloyds_law_reports_financial_crime

Highlight cases:

• Acting for and representing individuals in SFO investigations relating to allegations of corruption abroad.
• Acting for a wealthy individual in an appeal following the seizure of a substantial quantity of cash.
• Acting for an individual charged with perverting the course of justice by allegedly offering to make a payment to an employee of a premier football club. 
• Representing an immunity applicant, UK company, in an OFT criminal cartel investigation.
• Assisting in settlement negotiations for individuals in HMRC serious tax fraud investigations.
• Acted for a number of individuals connected to the Yukos Oil investigation, in the provision of extradition and related advice. 
• Representing the CEO of a company under investigation by the OFT and EU Commission for anti-competitive behaviour.
• Acting for a number of individuals in respect of removing/amending their Interpol files.
• Advised a legal professional (in criminal and regulatory proceedings) following an allegation of fraud by false representation.
• Acted for a foreign client in respect of a MLA request to the UK. 
• Acting for JUSTICE on an intervention to the Supreme Court in an extradition appeal.