Cécile Nicod
Cécile is an Associate in our Commercial Litigation and Civil Fraud team. She works on a range of English High Court litigation and other international disputes and has a particular interest in international arbitration.
Cécile is currently part of the team that acts for the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care in its £250 million claim against the French pharmaceutical group Servier and the team representing the Republic of Mozambique in litigation before the English Court.
Cécile trained with the firm and has therefore worked on a variety of cases in both departments, including a Financial Conduct Authority prosecution brought for insider trading, a corporate internal investigation and a private prosecution.
Before joining Peters & Peters, Cécile completed an internship at the United Nations and read International Relations and Spanish at the University of Leeds.
Cécile is a native French speaker and also speaks Spanish.
Case examples
Acting for the Republic of Mozambique in the US$2 billion “Tuna Bonds” Commercial Court proceedings against Credit Suisse and Abu Dhabi-based shipbuilder Privinvest.
Represented a high-net-worth individual prosecuted for insider dealing by the FCA.
Represented an individual in an internal investigation for potential breaches of personal account dealing policies.
Represented two Chinese citizens and their UK incorporated company embroiled in a large-scale money laundering investigation.
Related expertise
- Bank Account Freezing
- Business Crime & Investigations
- Commercial Litigation
- Criminal Fraud
- Criminal Restraint & Confiscation
- FS Regulatory/FCA Investigations & Enforcement
- Fraud & Commercial Disputes
- INTERPOL Red Notices
- Internal Investigations
- Private Prosecutions
- Serious & General Crime
- Tax Investigations