Peters & Peters secures 95% reduction in penalty for an engineering company in an HMRC export controls and sanctions investigation

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Peters & Peters successfully acted for a major international engineering company and its overseas parent Group working primarily in the offshore oil and gas, renewable energy and telecoms market. The company was the subject of an investigation by HMRC for potential export controls and sanctions breaches in relation to the export of dual-use marine goods […]

UK-based money service business charged in UAE with money laundering and terrorist financing

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Our clients are a British businessman and his UK-regulated money service business.    The client is charged, alongside his UAE-based companies, with serious money laundering and terrorism financing offences.  The UAE prosecution involves over 40 defendants and is of particular interest as the evidence of terrorist links appears to be almost exclusively based on publicly available […]

Acting in complex indecent images case

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We act for two individuals whose home was raided on suspicion that their electronic devices contained indecent images of children. The police investigation is ongoing. We have advised the clients on the law regarding possession and distribution of images and likely penalties. We have liaised with the employer of one of our clients in relation to […]

Representing prominent foreign client accused in the UK of rape

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The client is part of a wealthy, prominent family from a European country. He has been accused, while in the UK, of kidnapping, raping and blackmailing his former girlfriend, also from a wealthy and prominent family in the same country.   We ensured that our client was released under investigation so that he could return to […]

Partner Nick Vamos and Senior Associate Charlotte Tregunna prevent extradition of Russian businesswoman

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Peters & Peters demonstrate that the Russian Federation is still incapable of meeting required human rights standards On 9 December 2019 Senior District Judge Arbuthnot discharged our client, Ms Olga Egorova, and three other requested persons whose extradition was sought by the Russian Federation. The requested persons were unconnected to one another and had been […]

Partner Nick Vamos and Senior Associate Charlotte Tregunna prevent extradition of Russian businesswoman

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Peters & Peters demonstrate that the Russian Federation is still incapable of meeting required human rights standards On 9 December 2019 Senior District Judge Arbuthnot discharged our client, Ms Olga Egorova, and three other requested persons whose extradition was sought by the Russian Federation. The requested persons were unconnected to one another and had been […]

Head of Commercial Litigation and Civil Fraud Jonathan Tickner is quoted in Law 360 on the High Court’s dismissal of the defendant’s limitation application in the Scion litigation. Peters & Peters acted for the Claimants

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Carpenter Rees Ltd were denied a summary judgment application to strike out the negligence claims which were brought by former soccer players over a failed tax relief scheme. Their claim that the investors waited too long to the file the suit was rejected. Jonathan Tickner who acted for the Claimants said, “the Claimants now welcome […]