Sam Whiteley
Sam is an Associate in the Business Crime & Investigations team, who trained at Peters & Peters. His work – the majority of which has cross-border elements – encompasses a wide range of areas across Business Crime & Investigations, including contentious tax, financial services (both contentious and advisory), sanctions, export controls, and public inquiries. His clients include individuals, corporates, and public bodies, and he particularly enjoys court work.
Before joining the firm, he worked for two years in the litigation team of an international energy company, where he worked on a large multijurisdictional fraud and bribery case with criminal and civil limbs (arising out of the OPL 245 Affair). Sam also worked at another leading city firm, where he assisted on multiple matters with a Russia or CIS element, and went on secondment to alternative investment firm Oak Hill Advisors L.P. to assist them with financial regulatory work.
Sam has a first-class BA in English from the University of Oxford and a law degree from the University of London. He completed his English Bar exams in 2017. Sam has multiple publications, including a LexisNexis Practice Note on Asset Recovery in Private Prosecutions (here).
Outside of work, Sam is a governor of a primary school in Tower Hamlets. He speaks conversational Spanish.
Related expertise
- Account Freezing & Forfeiture & Cash Detention
- Bribery & Corruption
- Business Crime & Investigations
- Criminal Fraud
- Financial Services Investigations & Enforcement
- INTERPOL Red Notices
- Inquiries & Inquests
- Internal Investigations
- Private Prosecutions
- Sanctions & Export Controls
- Tax Investigations
- Tax Prosecutions