Maria has extensive experience of advising corporate and individual clients on all aspects of business crime, including corruption and money laundering. Her practice focuses on white-collar cases with a truly international dimension.

Maria regularly represents high-profile individuals and companies subject to complex corruption, money laundering, insider dealing and tax investigations. Maria provides strategic advice, including where there is underlying political motivation and potential abuse of a state's criminal justice system.
 

Maria advises on all aspects of extradition and has also successfully acted for a number of prominent individuals who were the subject of red notices and / or diffusions on INTERPOL's information systems.
 

She has extensive experience of advising on, and carrying out, complex and often sensitive internal investigations both here and overseas. Both as part of an internal investigation and also separately, she is asked to advise companies on their compliance with the UK Bribery Act, the money laundering regulations, sanctions and export controls.
 

Given the international nature of her cases, Maria works closely with teams of professional advisors both here and overseas.

Chambers UK 2023 rates Maria as fast becoming a go-to lawyer for POCA matters, including those arising out of corruption, conspiracy and money laundering investigations, with clients saying that she "is an exceptional lawyer" and that she "knows her stuff".

Maria is former President of the Criminal Commission of the UIA (Union Internationale des Avocats); and, in 2018, was appointed as the UK National President of the UIA. Maria also sits on the Advisory Committee of the Fraud Advisory Panel. She regularly speaks and chairs panels on issues of corruption, money laundering, corporate liability and general financial crime.
 

Prior to joining Peters & Peters, she worked at the European Commission. She is a native French speaker, who also reads Russian and German.

Recognised by The Legal 500 as a “rising star” “headed for the very top”, and by Who’s Who Legal as a Global Elite Thought Leader for both Asset Recovery and Commercial Litigation, Jon specialises in high-value, complex international commercial disputes with particular expertise in civil fraud, enforcement and asset recovery (including both commercial and sovereign debt), and he has obtained a number of ground-breaking orders in this regard. Chambers & Partners describes Jon as “incredibly impressive” and “an incredible tactician”, recognising him for his civil fraud work. The Legal 500 has called Jon a “bright young gun with a shrewd mind and a calm approach” and states there is “complete trust and faith in Jon’s advice and his expertise”, recognising him as a leading individual for civil fraud, a next generation partner for banking litigation, and recommending him for premium commercial litigation, international arbitration and commodities disputes. Jon has an international practice with clients including states, financial institutions, corporate clients, high-net-worth individuals and insolvency practitioners, and has acted on a number of complex and high value Russian/CIS cases.