We have extensive experience adivising and representing clients through all stages of complex and high-value criminal proceedings.
Many clients instruct our firm for our expertise in guiding them through the early stages of an investigation (and preventing charges being brought at all) and many instruct us for our tenacity in defending them throughout lengthy trials.
We interrogate the merits of each case, putting together the right partner-led team with the correct expertise to secure the best outcome possible for each client. Fraud allegations often have international elements and our experience in multi-jurisdictional prosecutions throughout the globe, as well as the contacts we have developed over the years, prove invaluable in the complex and high-value instructions that PCB Byrne specialises in.
Notable Experience
- Advising senior management in the SFO criminal investigations into Rolls-Royce, Airbus, ENRC, Petrofac, KBR Inc and London Capital and Finance plc.
- Acting for defendants in SFO prosecutions of senior management in Alstom and brokers/traders in Libor.
- Acting in numerous FCA prosecutions for insider dealing/market manipulation including the largest prosecution in Operation Tabernula.
- Acting for high-net-worth individuals in HMRC criminal investigations and prosecutions arising from the Panama, Paradise and Pandora Papers scandals.
- Acting for individuals in proceedings connected to high profile public inquiries, including the Post Office Horizon Inquiry.
- Acting for former Head of Technical Sales Support at Arconic, the French company that supplied the cladding to the Grenfell Tower residential block.
- Acting for a leading hedge fund and its officers in an HMRC criminal investigation for alleged tax frauds.
- Acting for a high net worth individual in an HMRC criminal investigation concerning frauds perpetrated in the Covid government procurement for pharmaceutical products.