INTRODUCTION On 30 April 2020, the High Court in Andrew Cole & Ors v Scion Limited & Ors dismissed an application for summary judgment brought by Carpenter Rees Limited, the Third Defendant, on the grounds that the Claimants had demonstrated reasonable prospects of success in proving that their claims were not statute-barred. The judgment, available […]
Peters & Peters are lead counsel for a senior Abu Dhabi official in the global investigations concerning allegations of corruption stemming from high-level government figures in Malaysia and Abu Dhabi. It is alleged that our client conspired with individuals in Malaysia to defraud the Malaysian public in a series of billion dollar bond issues. Investigations […]
Our client is a former senior executive of Barclays Investment Bank and was a defendant (formerly alongside Barclays itself and three other former executives, and latterly alongside two other former executives only) in the SFO’s landmark prosecution based on payments made by Barclays to a Qatari sovereign wealth fund and the Prime Minister of Qatar. […]
Peters & Peters acts for the Hungarian national oil and gas company, MOL, which in 2009 entered two agreements with the Republic of Croatia concerning the management of the Croatian national oil and gas company, INA. Croatia subsequently alleged that the agreements had been procured as the result of a bribe which it claimed MOL […]
We act for one of two individuals prosecuted for insider dealing by the FCA in their only such prosecution since 2016. The co-defendant was a former executive in the compliance team at a major international bank. The prosecution’s case was that our client made £1.4m by trading on inside information received from his co-defendant, which she obtained from the bank’s computer system […]
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 […]
Further to the continued spread of the COVID-19 coronavirus , Peters & Peters have instigated a clear plan aimed at preserving both our operational effectiveness and service delivery. Our focus is, of course, the safeguarding of the health and wellbeing of our clients and employees and the continued, uninterrupted service to all our clients. We […]
Yesterday, we hosted an Insight day in support of Access Aspiration. Access Aspiration is a charity organisation that aims to increase social mobility by providing Londoners from disadvantaged backgrounds (aged 16-18) with the confidence, skills and networks they need to progress to university and/or secure employment. We’ve previously supported the charity by volunteering in schools in […]
In a case in the Queen’s Bench Division advanced by the Claimant against 11 different defendants, with a total value exceeding US$11 million, Peters & Peters secured the discontinuance of the claim against our client, the ninth defendant. The Claimant has obtained judgement against all other defendants. Peters & Peters however put forward a robust […]
Peters & Peters has secured the deletion of all data relating to two Russian clients from INTERPOL’s systems. Our clients are the subject of politically motivated criminal proceedings in the Russian Federation, as a result of which the Russian authorities issued a diffusion for their arrest and extradition. Anticipating that the Russian authorities would take […]
