Andrew Smith

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Andrew specialises in business crime, including SFO, NCA, HMRC and police investigations relating to fraud, bribery/corruption and money laundering; extradition requests for individuals sought by a range of countries including the United States, Mexico, the UAE and India (as well as related advice on INTERPOL and criminal mutual legal assistance); criminal and regulatory inquiries brought by the FCA into insider dealing, market abuse and market misconduct; public inquiries into major events (often with parallel criminal proceedings); and financial sanctions and export control investigations.

Case highlights include acting for individuals in the SFO investigations concerning Tesco, Petrofac, Glencore, Airbus, British American Tobacco, Unaoil and LIBOR; acting for individuals sought on complex extradition requests from inside and outside the EU, including Mohammed Lodhi (UAE), Andrew Symeou (Greece) and Shrien Dewani (South Africa); acting for individuals in public inquiries including the Post Office Horizon IT Inquiry; acting for an individual in the FCA’s largest prosecution for insider dealing (Operation Tabernula); and acting for individuals in challenges to their financial sanctions designations (including Oleg Tinkov).