Our Head of Business Crime, Nick Vamos, speaks to Sky News about the sentence of eight months in prison suspended, handed down to US government employee Anne Sacoolas in London on 9 December 2022. Nick, who represented the family of Harry Dunn, killed by Mrs Sacoolas in a dangerous driving incident, told Sky News […]
The recent spectacular demise of the FTX cryptocurrency exchange and the arrest of its CEO Sam Bankman-Friedman have been all over the news in recent weeks. The downfall of FTX, which at one point was valued at $32 billion and used by over a million people, has shaken the industry and led to a host […]
In November, the Law Commission released reforms, proposing to overhaul the system to recover the proceeds of crime. The reforms are the result of a review commissioned by the Home Office and, if adopted, would enhance enforcement powers and could lead to a lot of of money being recovered from offenders every year. In this […]
Update: this event is now at capacity. Please contact events@petersandpeters.com to be added to the waitlist. To ring in the New Year, the Association for Women In Cryptocurrency (AWIC) will be having a networking breakfast, sponsored by Peters & Peters, TRM Labs and the London Business School Blockchain Society, featuring Mikaela Jackson, the […]
Lawyers are taught rules and procedures while studying the law, which is essential to achieving optimal legal outcomes, but academic study does little to prepare them for how these outcomes can be meaningfully affected by the use of legal technology. Edward Irwin spoke to CS Disco, as part of a blog series on how technology […]
When offenders are convicted of serious acquisitive crimes, such as fraud, statutory mechanisms are in place to deprive them of the benefit of their criminal conduct. Courts will determine the appropriate order, but if the defendant does not pay, the order is often enforced against their assets and results in an additional period of imprisonment. […]
Two recent reviews from the Commons Justice Committee into the infamous collapse of a couple of Serious Fraud Office (SFO) cases both concluded that the collapses were due to significant disclosure failures. Both reviews also identified serious organisational issues, which were addressed in evidence from SFO Director Lisa Osofsky and Chief Operating Officer Michelle Crotty. […]
Presenters from across Europe will discuss AML regulatory developments in their jurisdictions during 2018 and what can be expected in 2019. Read more.
Peters & Peters continue to act for the MOL Group, the Hungarian national energy company and one of the largest companies in Central and Eastern Europe, in its long running dispute with the Croatian Government over INA, Croatia’s national oil company. Croatia initiated arbitration proceedings in 2014 seeking the annulment of agreements which transferred management […]
Recent legislation has widened the pool of ‘high risk’ customers, not limited to Politically Exposed Persons (PEPs) and persons designated as targets of financial sanctions. Dr Anna Bradshaw discusses how strengthened due diligence obligations and regulatory reporting standards combine to increase the number of customers who may find themselves ‘unbankable’. For further information, read Anna’s […]
