Peters & Peters is delighted to announce the promotion of Alistair Jones to Partner in our Business Crime & Investigations team, effective 1 May 2026.
Alistair is a leading specialist in UK sanctions, export controls, and related financial crime matters. He advises corporates and individuals across a wide range of industries on compliance, licensing, enforcement, and contentious matters arising from the UK’s rapidly evolving sanctions regimes. He is ranked in Chambers & Partners 2026 for his “deep expertise” in sanctions and export controls and is recommended by The Legal 500 for his “positive and realistic advice to sophisticated clients”. He is also recognised as an expert by WorldECR, the leading sanctions and export controls publication.
Alistair has acted in some of the most significant sanctions challenges of recent years. He made one of the first successful revocation requests under the UK’s Russia sanctions regime, securing the removal of his client from the UK sanctions list without the need for court proceedings. He has also achieved successful de‑listings for clients designated under other UK regimes and has coordinated some of the earliest successful sanctions challenges in jurisdictions such as Canada and Australia. He was instructed alongside Anna Bradshaw in the successful challenge to an EU designation in Abdelkader Sabra v Council of the European Union (Case T‑249/20).
His broader financial crime practice spans both contentious and advisory work, including defending criminal and civil asset recovery proceedings, resisting enforcement actions by the Office of Financial Sanctions Implementation, and advising on complex financial crime compliance issues such as bank account closures, data protection rights and related litigation. He has been instructed in high‑profile UK GDPR litigation and is regularly sought after for sanctions training. He also co‑authored the chapter on the Impact of UK Sanctions on the Provision of Legal Services in The Guide to Sanctions (Global Investigations Review, 6th ed.).
Before joining Peters & Peters, Alistair worked at a leading litigation firm on cases that reached the Supreme Court and spent six months seconded to Parliament as legal adviser to the Shadow Attorney General. He holds a first‑class degree from Cambridge University and achieved the highest mark in his year for commercial law on the Legal Practice Course.
Nick Vamos, Head of Business Crime and Investigations at Peters & Peters said:
“Alistair is an exceptional lawyer whose deep technical expertise, strategic insight and calm authority make him a trusted adviser in some of the most complex sanctions, export controls, and financial crime matters. His promotion reflects not only his outstanding achievements but also the immense value he brings to our clients and our team.”
We congratulate Alistair on this well‑deserved promotion and look forward to his continued contribution to the firm’s market‑leading Business Crime & Investigations practice.
