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Caroline acts for corporate and individual clients in relation to a variety of disputes involving breaches of contract and misrepresentations, civil fraud and asset tracing, allegations of bribery and corruption, regulatory and health & safety breaches, breaches of restrictive covenants, and Judicial Review Caroline has experience of litigating through the Courts domestically and internationally.

She is also, however, experienced in resolving disputes through arbitration, mediation and other alternative means of resolution. Caroline is currently part of the team defending a multi-billion dollar fraud claim in the Cayman Islands.

Steven Haynes is a Director at Greyhawk and has 25 years of investigations experience.

He provides evidence and intelligence to law firms and their clients in complex, high-value and cross border disputes. He has extensive experience of identifying the assets of personal, corporate and sovereign debtors.

His clients include judgement creditors, banks, state asset resolution agencies, deposit insurance agencies and arbitral award holders.

At Greyhawk, he manages multilingual teams engaged on international disputes; these typically combine a range of investigative approaches, including collection of human intelligence, surveillance, interviewing, analysis of public records, and the use of specialist tools to extract information from the deep web and social media.

Greyhawk operates globally, with noted expertise in Europe, the CIS, the Middle East and Africa. The firm’s asset tracing engagements frequently include analysis of structures in offshore jurisdictions. Steven joined the investigations sector in 1997 after a career as a news reporter.

Sarah is a Senior Associate in our Litigation & Dispute Resolution Department and holds a Bachelor of Civil Law (European Legal Studies) from University College Dublin, a Diploma in Legal French and a Diploma in Commercial Litigation from the Law Society of Ireland. She also holds an Advanced Diploma in Corporate, White Collar and Regulatory Crime from the Honorable Society of King’s Inns. 

According to The Legal 500 2020, "Senior associate Sarah Twohig has a superb grasp of the issues and first-class organisational capacity in complex litigation. Entirely reliable execution of complex instructions in preparing complex trials."

I have a broad client practice, comprising restructuring, insolvency and related expert witness matters. These are usually complex, cross-border and high value in nature. I have worked on some of the highest profile assignments in the market over recent years and have particular experience of the financial services and shipping sectors.

Annabel Treadgold's practice focuses on multijurisdictional commercial litigation and arbitration, with an emphasis on disputes arising out of the energy and construction sectors and on complex civil fraud and asset recovery matters. Annabel is recognized as a Next Generation Partner in commercial litigation by The Legal 500 (2021-2024), is named as a "Future Leader in Commercial Litigation" by Who's Who Legal (UK) (2022-2023), and is ranked in Chambers UK in civil fraud (2021-2024).

Annabel's energy and construction experience includes acting for an owner in a defective design and construction claim, including issues of fire safety; advising a global construction company in disputes arising out of the construction of an oil refinery in the Middle East; advising in a dispute relating to the operation of floating offshore production facilities; acting in construction arbitrations arising out of onshore and offshore oil and gas projects in Western Australia; and acting in various joint venture disputes relating to mining operations in Western Australia.

Annabel's civil fraud and commercial disputes experience includes acting for a listed company in relation to a significant fraud involving approximately 30 jurisdictions; advising a high net worth individual in multijurisdictional fraud proceedings; acting for a Middle Eastern bank in its recovery proceedings, including injunctions in England, Jersey, and France; advising the liquidators of a group of companies in their claims against a former director and shareholder; acting in US$50 million asset tracing proceedings in which worldwide freezing orders, search orders, and asset disclosure orders were obtained; and acting in a joint venture dispute involving proceedings in England, the Caribbean, and Switzerland.

Annabel has practiced in London, Perth, and Singapore.

Stephen is a partner in the litigation and arbitration team and leads the global fraud team.

His practice focusses on international asset freezing and recovery cases, heavyweight commercial litigation and regulatory disputes and Stephen is particularly adept at drawing on the firm’s tax expertise in such cases to obtain a strategic advantage.

Stephen also often acts for family offices, successful families, entrepreneurs and their businesses on a broad range of commercial disputes and heads up our family office first group, which is an innovative approach to finding positive solutions for family conflicts.

Stephen regularly speaks at national and international conferences on a wide range of fraud and litigation topics.

Stephen is described by Chambers and Partners 2020 as a ‘superb lawyer’ and ‘‘an incredibly shrewd judge of the tactics of a case’.

As an associate in the London office, Rebecca Newell has worked on a range of commercial litigation disputes.

Her focus lies in civil fraud proceedings, which are high-value, multi-jurisdictional and complex in nature. She has particular experience of representing clients based in the CIS region.

Rosie has a wide range of experience of high value litigation and arbitration cases.  She has particular experience in civil fraud, shareholder disputes including unfair prejudice petitions, and issues of contractual interpretation.

Rosie has worked on a number of high profile cases, including a global business email compromise fraud in which CYK obtained England’s first worldwide freezing injunction of assets of ‘persons unknown’.

Rosie has been involved on a number of ICC, LCIA, UNCITRAL, HKIAC and SIAC arbitrations and has experience of commercial arbitrations, particularly in the oil and gas sector, as well as a number of investment treaty arbitrations. Rosie also has significant experience dealing with financial complex products and has spent time on secondment to the International Swaps and Derivatives Association (ISDA).

Audrey is a partner in Ogier's Dispute Resolution team and leads the firm’s Employment team in Luxembourg. She advises a wide range of businesses and financial institutions, including private equity actors and asset managers, across Europe and the USA on all aspects of civil and commercial litigation and employment law.

Audrey advises on a wide range of transactions and disputes in civil and commercial matters. She pleads before the Luxembourg civil and commercial courts and also assists clients confronted with dawn raids.

Her expertise spans shareholder disputes, insolvencies, breach of contract, white collar crime, asset freezing, arbitration and the enforcement of judgements, among other areas.

Audrey has an outstanding track record of successfully representing clients in complex litigation matters, and she has earned a reputation for being a strategic thinker and a strong advocate.

Audrey's employment practice includes advising clients on every aspect of employment matters, including due diligence, relocation, restructuring, collective redundancies, remuneration policies, incentive schemes, global employment contracts, day-to-day assistance to HR, disciplinary measures and dismissals, implementation of handbooks and other policies.

Syed's great depth of experience in serious fraud, financial crime and multi-jurisdictional investigations has earmarked him as a robust solicitor. He is proficient in both civil and criminal cases, where there is an allegation of corporate wrongdoing. Syed has substantial experience in advising corporate entities and their directors and officers in relation to investigations conducted by all the major enforcement agencies. He has also built an impressive reputation in the field of asset-tracing and recovery, with a respected track record regarding international disputes where urgent relief is required involving freezing orders and recovering misappropriated assets.

Syed is recognised for his sector-leading, pioneering cryptocurrency work, having secured a number of significant legal firsts when representing institutions and individuals. His specialist expertise in civil recovery proceedings under Part 5 of the Proceeds of Crime Act (POCA) has also led to him recording notable successes for clients in national and international cases.

Syed has a dynamic practice involving complex sanctions issues and related litigation. He has notable cases in this area, including representation of public limited companies (PLC’s) trading on the London Stock Exchange in relation to international sanctions on Russia, public joint-stock companies (PJSC’s) trading on the Moscow Stock Exchange regarding UK and EU sanctions on Russia and a major Russian power engineering company headquartered in St Petersburg relating to international sanctions advice. Syed regularly prepares licence applications to release frozen funds or economic resources for designated persons and entities. He is also adept at challenging sanctions designations.

He is known for his abilities in multijurisdictional, worldwide asset recovery cases – including obtaining and defending the full range of injunctions - high-stakes commercial and financial disputes and cross-border investigations involving attacks on clients’ interests by numerous governments or agencies. His skill in defending high-profile corruption, fraud and regulatory allegations and his ability to negotiate with investigators have ensured his clients receive the strongest representation.

The Chambers UK Guide regularly ranks Syed as an elite solicitor. It has called him “a very technically gifted lawyer’’ and has said he “gets on top of all the facts in complex cases’’. Chambers has described him as “very committed to the work he does’’ and said he “leaves no stone unturned and has a passion for what he does’’. It has repeatedly highlighted his expertise in POCA work and asset recovery proceedings. The 2023 edition of Chambers praises his ability to “forge ground in fast-developing areas’’ and his cryptocurrency case skills.

Syed’s clients include corporates and their directors, financial institutions, hedge funds, high net worth individuals and international private clients around the world. Syed has a particular interest in litigation arising from mergers and acquisitions, derivatives and securities offerings (IPO’s, SPAC IPO’s and debt offerings) and works with private equity funds and private sponsors for public companies.

He is adept at advising corporate entities and their directors and officers on their regulatory and compliance obligations and in investigations conducted by agencies such as the Serious Fraud Office, Financial Conduct Authority, National Crime Agency and HM Revenue & Customs. His ability to assess complex issues, establish the facts and analyse challenging sets of circumstances have seen him excel on internal investigations carried out for Rahman Ravelli’s corporate clients.

Syed routinely advises clients in FCA investigations into alleged market abuse, breaches of regulated activities and unauthorised trading. He is sought by asset management firms and chief investment officers at hedge funds facing enforcement proceedings and financial services litigation.

The Legal 500 has called Syed “a creative thinker’’, “a master of detail’’ and someone who “entirely devotes himself to his cases’’. It has drawn attention to the wide variety of global corporate wrongdoing and multi-jurisdictional bribery and corruption investigations he has worked on. It has praised his “incredible depth of experience when it comes to fraud matters, and in particular those with an international element or where the National Crime Agency are involved.’’ The 2023 edition calls him “one of the most well-respected names’’ in the legal world and emphasises his abilities in emerging areas such as SPACs and cryptocurrency fraud.

Syed is also in demand to work on cases where there is the possibility of securing a deferred prosecution agreement (DPA) for clients. The Legal 500 has noted Rahman Ravelli’s expertise in advising on DPAs and recognised that Syed “goes the extra mile to get the best results for his clients in leading on a multi-jurisdictional matter concerning this area”.

His recent work has involved global energy sector corruption allegations, major financial services cases, fintech companies and many of the most complex worldwide asset recovery cases.

Alexandra Campbell is a commercial disputes lawyer advising clients on a range of matters, in particular civil fraud, injunctive proceedings, professional negligence, contractual disputes, and enforcement actions.

Alexandra works for both high-net-worth individuals and corporates and provides clear advice under pressure to best protect her clients' interests.

She has a particular focus on financial services and civil fraud litigation. She acts regularly in multi-party and high-value proceedings and works closely with our specialist Business Crime team.

Throughout the litigation process, she ensures clients are fully informed about the steps, the risks, and the options available to them.

To provide full support to her clients, Alexandra has developed a close network of professional advisers who can give expert assistance beyond just legal advice on a range of different areas.

Rebecca Chalkley specialises in all areas of Business Crime & Fraud and Financial Services Regulation. Her areas of expertise include insider dealing, Bribery & Corruption (international and domestic), financial regulation, legal professional privilege, Money Laundering & Proceeds of Crime and tax fraud (direct and indirect), fraudulent trading, financial vehicles and the full spectrum of frauds.

She is regularly instructed in matters of complexity and sensitivity, and often with an international dimension.

Rebecca is a LexisNexis Expert in Corporate Crime.

Rebecca was The Times Lawyer of the week- 21 April 2022. [Press Report]

Rebecca has also been included in The Lawyer Hot 100 2023. Please see here for more information: [The Lawyer]

Rebecca has been and is instructed in the largest Private Prosecutions and is a leader in that field. She has been ‘spotlighted’ as such in Chambers UK.

She has been instructed in various cases which resulted in Deferred Prosecutions Agreements (DPA), including what is believed to be the largest to date. She has acted in these for both individuals and companies.

She is Standing Counsel to the Department for Business and the Insolvency Service and consequently advises the department on the most complicated issues of policy and their prosecutions.

She has a vast experience of bankruptcy and liquidation and prosecutions under the Insolvency Act and Directorship Offences. She has considerable expertise in all matters connected to disclosure and legal professional privilege.

Rebecca is frequently instructed in regulatory and quasi-criminal matters on cases involving breaches of Regulatory & Professional Discipline and on behalf of regulatory bodies. This includes the Health and Safety Executive, the Environment Agency, the Financial Conduct Authority and the General Medical Council. She is regularly instructed to defend Opticians at the General Optical Council.

She is also consistently instructed in Extradition cases. This includes cases involving the USA, the Russian Federation and Bermuda.

She is instructed by various government departments in cases before the Special Immigration Appeals Commission (SIAC). Rebecca was instructed by the Government, in the Kamoka litigation, concerning allegations of rendition and ill treatment sustained in Libya, brought against the British Government.

Rebecca has also been appointed Visiting Professor of Practice at the Institute of Advanced Legal Studies (IALS) at the University of London and has taken up the role, for one year, from October 1, 2022.

Elizabeth Fox has experience as a commercial litigator with a focus on civil fraud and contentious insolvency often as part of complex multi-jurisdictional disputes. She handles matters involving allegations of fraud or misconduct including diversion of business opportunities, secret commissions, bribery, conspiracy, data theft, misrepresentation, breach of fiduciary duty, breach of confidence, and/or breach of contract.

Elizabeth represents a wide range of clients including high net-worth individuals and many of her cases are international in scope. Her experience includes injunctive relief on both the claimant and defendant side such as search orders; freezing and asset preservation orders; delivery-up orders; computer imaging orders; third Party disclosure orders; and other asset recovery techniques. She has been identified by Chambers UK Guide as Up and Coming in the Fraud: Civil category. Chambers UK Guide 2023 also refers to Elizabeth as “a master of detail” and “simply fantastic. She understands the most complex situations very quickly, and incorporates the legal and procedural principles of other jurisdictions into her analysis with disconcerting ease”, whilst the Legal 500 UK 2023 refers to Elizabeth as “a strong and effective presence on any team.”

Chris is a senior associate at RPC. Chris advises on a broad range of commercial disputes with emphasis on high value civil fraud, banking and financial services disputes (including with derivative products and the close-out of complex financial transactions), shareholder disputes and crypto disputes. Chris is also a founding member of the Crypto Fraud and Asset Recovery 'CFAAR' network, sitting on its committee.

Chris has authored numerous thought leadership pieces on the application of game theory to litigation settlement and has developed software tools to analyse the settlement landscape in disputes.

Lynn joined Asserson as a Senior Associate having trained with and qualified into the dispute resolution team at a large international firm. At the beginning of 2024, Lynn became a Legal Director at Asserson. Lynn has advised on a number of large, complex litigations and has a broad commercial practice with an emphasis on defamation and reputation management.

Lynn’s notable cases to date include a pharmaceuticals claim and counterclaim worth £80million, advising on the product defect side of the highest value personal injury dispute ever heard in the English courts (at the time) and advising a very high profile client in litigation against former property managers where adverse publicity was also a major concern.

Lynn achieved a distinction in both her LLM in International Trade Law and her legal practice course. Lynn has also been involved in a number of pro bono legal projects, including working as an Amicus team leader to assist with death penalty appeals in the USA.  In her previous role, Lynn was the co-chair of the firm’s minority ethnic network.

Lynn is an avid gamer in her spare time and attends gaming conventions in the UK and Europe. Lynn is a fluent mandarin speaker and lives in Manchester with her husband and son. Lynn also enjoys cooking (and eating the results!), travelling and reading. She also likes to translate Chinese TV shows and webnovels into English, so her husband can share her interests.

I specialise in the resolution of commercial and personal disputes, particularly those involving allegations of fraud, misfeasance and breach of trust.

Since starting as a partner with Fladgate in 2012, I have represented a broad range of clients - individuals, companies and organisations – and have helped them to seek legal redress or to defend themselves against claims.

I consider myself lucky to be able to help people and organisations, often at the most stressful of times, to navigate themselves out of situations in which they find themselves.

Many of my clients live or have businesses abroad which can add unwanted complexity to their claims. I am used to working on multi-jurisdictional disputes and to making applications to the court in this country to assists disputes in other jurisdictions, for example with worldwide freezing orders.

I am the Vice Chairman (civil) of the Fraud Lawyers Association and also a committee member of the London Solicitors Litigation Association. I write regularly for the legal press on issues affecting litigators in England.

Lucinda has a broad commercial disputes practice with substantial experience of complex, high-value cross-border litigation and long trials. She has acted for many high net worth individuals and large institutions, in some of the most consequential trials to come before the English Courts in recent years. Lucinda is recognised by Legal 500 as a “Next Generation Partner” in Commercial Litigation: Premium, by Chambers and Partners as “Up and Coming” in Fraud: Civil, and is recognised by Who’s Who Legal as a Leading Global Fraud and Asset Recovery Lawyer. She is described in the legal directories as “an outstanding professional”; “a class act” and “smart and hugely efficient”.

Lucinda has been at the cutting edge of innovations for trial settings over the last decade – having managed the first trial with an integrated electronic trial bundle system in 2011, and also the first fully remote 12-week trial with simultaneous interpretation in 2020. Lucinda has particular expertise in disclosure-heavy cases in foreign languages and likes developing and delivering technical solutions and harnessing technology to ease the cost burden for her clients.

Lucinda has also developed an interest and specialisation in Letters of Request, principally from the US Courts. She regularly acts as the Privy Council Agent in appeals from offshore jurisdictions to the Judicial Committee of the Privy Council. Lucinda also has experience of mediation, as well as a range of other dispute resolution mechanisms, and familiarity with regulatory investigations. Through a number of pro bono matters in which she has acted, she also has judicial review experience.

Lucinda graduated from Oxford University, following undergraduate and Masters of Studies degrees, and undertook her pupillage at Quadrant Chambers. Since qualification, she has practised at Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom (UK) and Quinn Emanuel Urquhart & Sullivan UK LLP. She joined Enyo Law in 2014.

Lucinda holds a number of leadership roles within the legal profession, and sits on the Management Committee of the Bar Council of England and Wales, and previously sat on the Management Committee on her Inn of Court, where she is a Bencher. Lucinda has also been appointed by the Lord Chancellor as an Examiner of the Court pursuant to CPR 34.15, and by the Culture Secretary to the Treasure Valuation Committee, to advise on the fair market value of declared Treasure finds from England, Wales and Northern Ireland.

As a practising barrister, Lucinda has full rights of audience in all higher courts in England and Wales and has the right to conduct litigation.

Ruth is involved in litigation and advisory work domestically and offshore in commercial, trusts and property matters. She has expertise and wide experience across the areas of trusts, tax litigation, company disputes, charities, insolvency and public law and often where these areas intersect. She appears frequently on these matters (led and unled) in the High Court, Tax Tribunals, Court of Appeal and Privy Council. Ruth has a strong offshore practice and in addition to her commercial chancery practice has been heavily involved in a long-running series of judicial review, contempt and constitutional proceedings in The Bahamas.

Ruth’s government work is predominantly in the areas of tax and trusts: she appeared for HMRC in the landmark Supreme Court appeals in Pitt v Holt and Futter v Futter; in a series of matters on appeal to the Court of Appeal on the application of transfer pricing rules to shareholder transactions and the meaning of ‘loss’ for corporation tax purposes; and, currently, on a series of tax appeals relating to the validity of remuneration trusts.

David is an advocate providing specialised advice in relation to business restructuring and insolvency in contentious, non-contentious and multi-jurisdictional matters

Thomas accepts instructions in all of chambers’ practice areas, with a particular focus on commercial dispute resolution, construction, insolvency and professional negligence.

Prior to pupillage, Thomas worked for a Legal Tech company where he taught a machine learning programme to recognise different types of contractual terms. The programme is used by M&A lawyers at leading firms to undertake due diligence more quickly and more accurately.

He studied Law at St Anne’s College, Oxford, where he was elected JCR President and won a college prize for his performance in finals. He was awarded an advocacy scholarship and graded Outstanding on the Bar course.

Thomas is currently acting as junior counsel for the main Defendants in Skatteforvaltningen (Danish Customs and Tax Authority) v Solo Capital Partners LLP & Ors. The case is listed as one of The Lawyer’s Top 20 cases for 2024.