BCL - Key Persons


Aleksandra Kardas

Job Titles:
  • Associate
Aleksandra is an advocate (Poland) and an associate in BCL's business crime team. Prior to joining BCL Solicitors LLP, she gained experience at leading international law firms in Warsaw, where she worked on complex fraud and bribery investigations. She also assisted with conducting private prosecutions. Aleksandra read law at the Jagiellonian University in Cracow, graduating with first class honours in 2019. As part of her studies, she spent 6 months at the Bucerius Law School in Germany and the University of Groningen (Netherlands). She further completed an LL.M. degree at the London School of Economics and Political Science in 2022, where she focused on financial crime and corporate criminal liability. She speaks English, Polish and German.

Alexander Gorst

Job Titles:
  • Senior Associate
Alexander specialises in acting for individual and corporate clients across a broad spectrum of financial crime and regulatory matters. He regularly defends clients under investigation for bribery and corruption, serious fraud, tax evasion, money-laundering, market abuse and insider dealing. Alexander is particularly experienced in multi-jurisdictional investigations and matters with multi-agency involvement, including investigations conducted by the SFO, NCA, HMRC, FCA and their foreign counterparts, including the US DOJ. Alexander has notable experience in SFO-related matters, having been seconded to the agency in 2016. He has subsequently acted for a number of individual and corporate clients subject to investigation by the SFO, including those resulting in deferred prosecution agreements. Alexander also conducts internal investigations and advises companies and directors on governance issues. He helps clients to avoid financial crime risks in a wide range of scenarios, advising on compliance with financial crime legislation and the implementation of preventative measures. Alexander has a detailed understanding of the law and procedure relating to the Proceeds of Crime Act 2002 and has advised clients on all aspects of asset forfeiture including restraint, cash forfeiture, account freezing orders, and post-conviction confiscation. More recently, Alexander has had significant involvement in advising individual and corporate clients on international financial sanctions, including compliance with the UK sanctions regimes, license applications and de-listing applications. Alexander practiced at the independent Bar for five years. He is a highly experienced trial lawyer, having acted as a sole and led advocate in courts of first instance, appellate courts and before a variety of tribunals. This experience underpins the advice he provides and the strategies he employs on behalf of his clients.

Andrew Watson

Job Titles:
  • Associate
Andrew is an associate working across both the business crime, and the serious and general crime sectors. Since joining the firm in 2018, Andrew has been involved in many of BCL's practice areas including: fraud, bribery, sanctions, money laundering and HMRC investigations and enquiries. Much of his work involves the Proceeds of Crime Act 2002 and the money laundering regulations, with examples ranging from the submission of suspicious activity reports to contesting applications for account freezing and forfeiture orders (AFFOs). He has also worked on cases involving Interpol Red Notices, extradition and applications for committal for contempt of court. Andrew also has experience in the law governing covert surveillance, specifically the Investigatory Powers Act 2016 and the Data Protection Act 2018, and has assisted with advising clients on their obligations under the relevant legislation. In the past, Andrew has worked on cases involving Cifas, the cross-sector anti-fraud network, and has assisted clients subject to Cifas markers. He has a good working knowledge of the provisions of the GDPR/DPA 2018 and has helped clients in relation to both. Prior to joining BCL, Andrew was a paralegal at a City law firm where he was involved in a large-scale SFO prosecution concerning Euribor. He also gained experience in general crime cases involving firearms, sexual offences and assault. In the context of professional discipline, he also gained exposure to GMC, HCPC, BSB and police misconduct proceedings. Andrew graduated with a degree in history from the University of London, before subsequently converting to law, being called to the Bar by Gray's Inn and completing the LPC. Andrew began his training contract at BCL in September 2021 and later qualified March 2023.

Annabell Hood

Job Titles:
  • Associate
  • Associate in
Annabell is an associate in BCL's business crime team. Prior to joining BCL in May 2022, Annabell completed her training at a leading city law firm, where she worked on a range of complex and cross-border civil fraud disputes for both corporate and individual clients. These cases included assisting in defending a non-executive director and chairman of a FTSE 100 UAE-based healthcare provider, in relation to an alleged US$4 billion fraud, and for a leading IT company in relation to fraud claims amounting to US$5 billion, arising out of a US$11 billion acquisition, the biggest civil fraud trial in UK history. Since joining BCL, Annabell has been involved in matters concerning the Proceeds of Crime Act 2002 (POCA), sanctions and public inquiries. She has also gained experience working alongside our partners in the regulatory enforcement field, data protection and a HMRC tax investigation (Cop 9). Annabell graduated from Clare College, Cambridge with a BA in History and thereafter attained a Masters' Degree (LLM) from BPP Law School, Holborn.

Anoushka Warlow

Job Titles:
  • Assistant Solicitor
  • Associate
  • Partner
"She is honestly absolutely fantastic. I have never met anybody who has such an incredible grasp of the detail; she is incredibly efficient and completely ruthless and unrelenting. I am frankly astonished by her ability."

Bethan Cowlam

Job Titles:
  • Associate
Bethan is an associate in the Serious and General Crime Team. She defends clients in a wide range of criminal matters, including those involving sexual offences, drug offences and offences of violence, dishonesty and public order. Bethan has particular experience in representing individuals accused of serious sexual offences, including high-profile clients in media-sensitive cases. She has a growing practice representing young clients accused of sexual offences, including in disciplinary proceedings brought by universities. Bethan also has a growing practice representing individuals subject to private prosecutions, particularly for blackmail and dishonesty offences. During Bethan's training at BCL, she was involved in conducting complex corporate investigations in relation to financial crime and serious regulatory breaches. She also assisted in defending individuals and companies facing allegations of environmental offences, health and safety offences (generally following fatal accidents), money laundering and fraud. Bethan read law at the University of Bristol (first class honours). She joined BCL in 2017 as a paralegal, and commenced her training contract with BCL in September 2019. Bethan was admitted as a solicitor in September 2021.

Caitlin Hopwood

Job Titles:
  • Legal Assistant
Caitlin is a legal assistant in BCL's business crime team. Prior to joining BCL Solicitors LLP, she gained experience in a global law firm in Leeds, working on commercial matters including volume claims work and disclosure reviews. Caitlin read law at the University of Sheffield, graduating with upper second-class honours in 2020. As part of her studies, she sent a year at the University of Antwerp in Belgium, studying the Erasmus Master of Laws programme. She further completed an LL.M. degree at the University of Manchester in Security and International Law, graduating with distinction in 2021.

Christina Josephides

Job Titles:
  • Associate
Christina is qualified as both a barrister and a solicitor. Christina joined BCL having previously practised as a self-employed barrister at the Criminal Bar. Before qualifying as a criminal barrister in 2017, Christina worked for the United Nations High Commission for Refugees in Cyprus. Christina then spent six years working in international protection, human rights, and extradition for a specialist immigration and extradition law firm in London as a litigator dealing with cases in the UK and overseas. Christina is an experienced lawyer with extensive experience of working on large scale, complex cases across international jurisdictions. Christina also has vast experience in both prosecuting and defending criminal proceedings before the Magistrates and Crown Court and was regularly instructed in relation to serious offences from fraud to homicide. As a barrister, Christina was ranked as a Leading Junior in the 2022 Legal 500.

Daniel Jackson

Job Titles:
  • Associate
  • Partner
  • Senior Associate
"Dan Jackson is incredibly organised and always a step ahead of opponents. Clients are so obviously relaxed in his company." BCL's Senior Associate, Daniel Jackson, provides a timely reminder of the new law facing motorists o... BCL associate Daniel Jackson's article ‘Does more online protection need to be given to... BCL Associate, Daniel Jackson, examines the recent surge in online abuse faced by sports professiona...

David Hardstaff

Job Titles:
  • Partner
  • Senior Associate
"He is the most reassuring solicitor I have encountered - he doesn't sway from the realities and difficulties of a case and is exceptionally perceptive in how matters will play out." BCL partners David Hardstaff and John Binns have written for Food Navigator discussing how a high-pr... BCL partner John Binns and senior associate David Hardstaff share their views on a blueprint for the... David Hardstaff and John Binns write for Cannabis Wealth exploring fresh challenges for the UK's CBD industry BCL partner John Binns and senior associate David Hardstaff write for Cannabis Wealth discussing th...

Dimitri Naumenko-Pronin

Job Titles:
  • Legal Assistant
  • Assistant in
Dimitri is a legal assistant in BCL's business crime team. As a native Russian speaker, his work includes assisting BCL's sanctions team. Whilst at university, prior to joining BCL, he gained voluntary experience in asylum & immigration law where he worked on preparing fresh claim submissions for asylum. He further assisted individuals with welfare benefit entitlements and housing issues in other pro bono roles. Dimitri read law at Royal Holloway, University of London, graduating with upper second-class honours in 2023. He is currently undertaking the LLM Legal Practice Course (Part-time) at BPP University Law School, Holborn.

Ellen Peart

Job Titles:
  • Partner
"Ellen Peart is described as a ‘secret weapon' who ‘inspires total confidence from her clients' and is a ‘phenomenal team player.' She comes highly recommended for her expert representation of high-profile clients, particularly those facing serious sexual and violent offence charges."

Evgeni Voznoi

Job Titles:
  • Trainee Solicitor
Evgeni is a trainee solicitor in the Corporate and Financial Crime team.

Glyn Williams - COO

Job Titles:
  • Chief Operating Officer
Glyn is the firm's Chief Operating Officer and leads the management of the business. Glyn first joined BCL on a consultancy basis in 2013 to advise on strategy and the implementation of a structure to equip the firm to meet its challenges. During this time his remit has grown significantly in line with the firm's business growth and in September 2018 he joined BCL as permanent member of the team. He is a qualified Chartered Accountant with over 20 years of experience as a partner in an International accounting firm where he worked with a wide variety of larger and listed clients and a range of professional practices. He has been responsible for developing the infra structure of the business and is a member of the firm's Executive.

Greg Mailer

Job Titles:
  • Partner
Greg Mailer is a partner specialising in corporate crime, financial crime, and regulatory investigations. He has experience in investigations and prosecutions by the SFO, the CPS, the CMA, the ICO and the FCA. Greg has particular expertise in assisting clients in relation to investigations by HMRC, especially with regard to the issues of tax avoidance and evasion. He has significant experience in dealing with cases involving the Contractual Disclosure Facility (CDF) and HMRC's Fraud Investigation Service and COP9 teams, and has acted in numerous cases in which criminal issues have arisen out of civil matters. He is a regular attendee of the Fraud Forum of HMRC, established to consult on policy and operational issues on tax fraud. He has also acted in cases involving multi-jurisdictional corruption and bribery, Data Protection Act offences, share ramping, insolvency offences, cartel and price fixing offences, market abuse and money laundering. Greg joined BCL in 2005 having worked for a year with HMRC. He trained at Blake Morgan Solicitors (then Tarlo Lyons) where he gained experience in both civil and criminal litigation, having studied law at Nottingham University and completing his Legal Practice Course at Nottingham Law School.

Harry Travers

Job Titles:
  • Partner
  • Solicitor
  • Specialist
‘Harry Travers is a combination of steely drive and ambition on the legal side, and empathy to the human impact of the position his clients are in'. ‘Harry Travers is enormously respected by the market and has almost unparalleled experience…' ‘Harry Travers is an excellent solicitor who is at the top of his game!' ‘Harry Travers is extremely proactive and technically savvy.' - Harry Travers is a specialist in business crime and regulation, and in complex tax investigations. He is listed in the Chambers 100, a legal directory of the top 100 business lawyers in the UK across all areas of law. He was also inducted into the Legal 500 "Hall of Fame" in 2018, which recognises partners who are "at the pinnacle of the profession".

Ian Burton - Founder

Job Titles:
  • Founder
  • Partner
  • Senior Partner
  • Senior Partners
"If I was an oligarch in bad trouble, I'd go to Ian Burton' … ‘He's the one with the greatest amount of experience' … Burton specialises in resolving a wide range of complex matters for wealthy individuals around the world…. ‘the figurehead of financial crime, he is able to cut through the rubbish without blinking. There aren't many who can do that." Having been involved in most of the significant business crime investigations and prosecutions brought by the UK authorities over the last two decades, Ian has particular expertise and experience in providing discreet, prompt and clear advice to high profile individuals, corporations and Government bodies on a wide range of complex and sensitive issues nationally and internationally. These include commercial fraud, international financial regulation (including money laundering), tax investigations, company investigations, price-fixing, corruption, mutual legal assistance and extradition, and corporate manslaughter, and often require the co-ordination of a range of other professionals including accountants, tax advisers and media advisers, in a multi-jurisdictional context. He lives in London and his professional memberships include the International Bar Association and the American Bar Association. In 2009 Ian was appointed to The Times Law Panel, an advisory body of 100 of the country's most prominent lawyers.

Jenna Gayle

Job Titles:
  • Legal Assistant
Jenna is a legal assistant working within BCL's business crime, regulatory, and serious and general crime teams. Since joining the firm in 2023, Jenna has assisted in a range of the firm's practice areas including financial crime, data and cybersecurity, general crime, and HNW / high-profile private client representation. Jenna has gained considerable experience in BCL's corporate crime team, assisting with defending clients in SFO investigations and conducting research in the context of internal investigations. She has also been closely involved in surveillance and data protection matters, assisting partners with delivering advice to clients on obligations under the Investigatory Powers Act 2016, the UK GDPR, Data Protection Act 2018, and the Online Safety Act 2023. Prior to joining BCL, Jenna read History at University College London. She went on to complete a Masters in Medieval and Renaissance Studies at UCL. Jenna achieved a distinction in the Postgraduate Diploma in Law in 2022 and completed the BVS in 2023. Jenna will be called to the bar in March 2024.

Jonathan Fenster

Job Titles:
  • Practice Director
Jonathan is the firm's Practice Director, engaged in all aspects of law firm management. Having worked for many years in the commercial law sector, he took on the role of Finance Manager for a magic circle barristers' chambers before returning to commercial law practice with BCL in 2017. Jonathan has a broad knowledge of the legal sector gained over many years particularly law firm compliance obligations. In addition, he has key skills in managing and implementing projects relating to property and IT.

Julian Hayes

Job Titles:
  • Partner
  • Expert
  • Specialist
"He knows the law inside out and then uses that knowledge to great effect for his clients, translating the black letter law into practical outcomes for his clients." Julian is a specialist in surveillance and data protection law, including advising tech firms, social media companies and other communications service providers on law enforcement demands for data, the use of new technologies for investigative purposes, and the enforcement of data rights and obligations. He has extensive experience of financial crime and regulatory investigations, including bribery and corruption, fraud, insider dealing and market abuse, customs & excise offences, and anti-competitive practices. Julian writes and speaks on a variety of topics, principally relating to information law topics. BCL partner, Julian Hayes writes for City AM explaining why the online safety bill still remains a p... BCL partner Julian Hayes's article examining the new Children's Code that came into effect thi...

Karen Peacock

Job Titles:
  • Practice Development Director
Karen is the Practice Development Director of BCL, a position she has held since 2016. A practising solicitor, Karen was a partner in BCL between 1995 and 2006, having previously worked as a commercial litigator at Slaughter & May and McKenna & Co (now CMS). Karen has substantial experience in business crime investigations and prosecutions which she uses in her role in which she has responsibility for all matters relating to staff development and the business development of BCL.

Kate Chanter

Job Titles:
  • Senior Associate
Kate is a criminal litigator and advocate with experience in representing individuals throughout all stages of criminal proceedings. Kate joined BCL from a large London based firm. She qualified as a solicitor in 2015 and originally joined the Serious and General Crime team here at BCL in 2017. Her criminal defence practice involves representing individuals for a wide range of offences; from minor public order and assaults through to fraud and serious sexual offences. Kate is experienced in representing those detained at, or voluntarily attending the police station for interview under caution. Kate has particular expertise in the drafting of written representations to the police and to the Crown Prosecution Service in respect of charging decisions; which can avoid prosecution and result in no further action, or lead to a case being discontinued following a charging decision. Kate also has experience in representing individuals facing disciplinary action by Universities and other educational bodies, for matters which may also form the basis of a criminal investigation. Kate recently spent two years working as a Complex Casework Lawyer at the Court of Appeal, Criminal Division, working closely with the Registrar of Criminal Appeals. She was responsible for the case management of applications to appeal against conviction, considering and providing advice to the judiciary as to the lawfulness of sentences, and preparing summaries for the Full Court hearing an appeal. Kate was also one of the two lawyers assigned to co-ordinate the 2022 Whole Life Order ‘Special Court'. This was a five judge constitution, presided over by the Lord Chief Justice, which considered the sentences of four offenders convicted of murder and manslaughter. These included the high-profile case of Wayne Couzens. (R v Stewart, Couzens, Tustin and Hughes [2022] EWCA Crim 1063). Kate returned to BCL in July 2023, bringing with her the considerable experience which she gained in appellate work, through her role at the Court of Appeal. Kate graduated from Nottingham Trent University (LLB Hons) with first class honours before continuing her studies in London.

Magali Sharma

Job Titles:
  • Associate
Magali is an associate at BCL and works primarily in our sanctions team. She trained and qualified into the international department of a reputable London law firm and was involved in a variety of cases relating to international sanctions, public international law and European law. She has specific experience challenging restrictive measures imposed by the Council of the European Union, and she has represented a number of clients who have successfully challenged such measures before the ECJ in Luxembourg. She also has experience representing individuals in challenging UK sanctions and obtaining licences to deal with frozen assets in the UK. In the course of her training, she also gained media litigation experience, working on claims relating to defamation, harassment and data protection for private individuals, high net worth clients and companies. Magali is a native French speaker. She read law at Aix-Marseille University in France, and achieved a distinction in her LPC before being admitted as a solicitor in September 2020.

Mark Haslam

Job Titles:
  • Partner
"Sources describe Mark Haslam as ‘extremely able and very polished'. He has an outstanding reputation in the market and is recognised for representing high-profile clients." Mark Haslam has specialised in general criminal defence work since qualifying in 1981 and, prior to joining BCL as a partner in 1998, had gained extensive experience in a wide range of criminal cases ranging from murder to parking tickets. Since joining BCL, Mark has been involved in establishing a general crime department within the firm, advising and representing clients in a whole range of criminal cases including fraud and business crime litigation, HMRC investigations, drugs cases ranging from importation to simple possession, murder, manslaughter, various degrees of assault and public order offences. Mark provides advice and representation in the police station to those involved in police investigations and to others involved in investigations instigated by professional bodies and regulatory authorities. Mark has extensive Magistrates' Court advocacy experience, appearing in the Magistrates' Court almost on a daily basis and also has higher rights of audience, which he exercises frequently to represent clients in the Crown Court. He has represented many well-known public figures from the fields of sport, politics and the arts, particularly acting for a number of current and former professional footballers and rugby players. Within the field of general criminal work, his particular specialisation is road traffic cases including driving with excess alcohol, driving under the influence of drugs, causing death by dangerous driving, dangerous driving, driving without due care and attention, speeding (including penalty point disqualifications), exceptional hardship arguments and Section 172 Notices. Mark has been a regular broadcaster and lecturer on criminal legal affairs on radio and television and at legal seminars and conferences for a number of years and is a former president of the London Criminal Court Solicitors' Association and a former member of the Criminal Law Committee of the Law Society. He is currently a member of the London Criminal Court Solicitors' Association and the Criminal Law Solicitors' Association and has also sat as a Law Society representative on various Legal Services Commission Committees and as a Solicitor Assessor in High Court taxation matters.

Matt Davies

Job Titles:
  • Associate
Matt is an associate in BCL's business crime team. Prior to joining BCL Solicitors, Matt worked on a range of complex disputes involving prosecutors and regulators including the SFO, FCA, FRC, ICO and SEC. He has assisted with the negotiation and conclusion of two deferred prosecution agreements. He has also assisted with conducting private prosecutions, internal investigations and reviewing internal policies and procedures for large multinational corporations. Matt also has considerable experience with acting for both claimants and defendants in large-scale civil litigation. Matt read law with study abroad at the University of Bristol, graduating in 2016. As part of his studies, he spent a year studying a mixture of humanities subjects at Kyushu University, Japan. He worked as a paralegal at both international law firms and regulators, including the Financial Conduct Authority. He achieved a distinction in his LPC (MSc) at the University of Law before training and qualifying at an international city law firm. Matt was admitted as a solicitor in September 2021. Matt joined BCL in July 2022.

Megan Curzon

Job Titles:
  • Associate
  • Associate in
Megan is an associate in BCL's business crime and regulatory team. Since joining BCL, Megan has been involved in conducting corporate investigations and defending a private prosecution. Megan's scientific background lends itself to issues with a medical element, which she has used to inform work relating to a coroner's inquest. Prior to joining BCL, Megan was an associate in the commercial litigation team of a city firm where she worked for high-net-worth individuals and corporates on a range of contentious matters including civil fraud, international financial disputes and reputation management issues. Megan has also advised clients on product liability and data protection matters, in addition to issues arising from the Bribery Act. Megan read Medical Pharmacology at Cardiff University before studying the GDL on a scholarship. Megan achieved a distinction in her LPC, and subsequently trained and qualified at an international city firm. Megan was admitted as a solicitor in September 2020, and joined BCL in August 2023.

Michael Drury

Job Titles:
  • of Counsel
  • Strategist
"Michael Drury is praised for his mastery of complex financial crime cases and being fearless when dealing with the SFO and FCA, and other international investigating agencies. Sources note Michael is an "outstanding lawyer" who is "very sensible, very responsive, very determined and very committed" and "the most knowledgeable practitioner on issues of UK national security and surveillance."" Michael Drury joined BCL in September 2010 from GCHQ where for a number of years he was Director for Legal Affairs and a member of the main Board of Directors, having been appointed GCHQ's first full-time legal adviser in 1996. He was called to the Bar in 1982 and subsequently admitted as a solicitor at the time of his move to GCHQ. Prior to that he was a tax lawyer in the City and then prosecuted for HM Customs & Excise and the Serious Fraud Office where he had the conduct of some of the most notable cases in the late 1980s and early 1990s. He is the last of those who founded the SFO to remain in full time practice. Michael's practice is diverse, ranging from extradition, where he has successfully represented senior Ministers and others in former Soviet Union states and a number of significant Turkish businessmen (falsely alleged to be terrorists and part of the 2016 coup attempt) defeating extradition claims and securing the removal of and preventing the issue of Red Notices; representing individuals in regulatory proceedings brought by the FCA (in LIBOR and other matters); acting in criminal investigations by the SFO (including for corporates and individuals in bribery and corruption cases, and in LIBOR), as well as in fraud investigations by a variety of police forces in England and Wales; to achieving successful outcomes for clients in investigations by the Information Commissioner's Office, in the spin off from National Crime Agency (‘NCA') investigations into ‘blagging'. Michael has recently successfully avoided attempts by the NCA to obtain an Unexplained Wealth Order against individuals who were under threat of this, leaving his clients free to deal with their assets as they wished. He is also representing other clients in resisting actions sought to be taken by the NCA on the basis of mutual legal assistance being provided to criminal investigators overseas. Notably, Michael represented individuals, including the deputy head of MI6, in the Metropolitan Police investigation into the alleged involvement of British officials in the transfer of individuals to Libya under the regime of Colonel Muammar Gaddafi: that six year investigation resulted in no prosecution. Michael has a special expertise where the criminal law interacts with national security and official secrets. Michael's work in the International Criminal Court (‘ICC') is notable, with him having been part of the team of Kenyan President Uhuru Kenyatta against whom proceedings before the Court were discontinued by the prosecutor on the basis of, amongst other things, analysis suggested by Michael. He is instructed in ongoing ICC matters being investigated by the Office of the Prosecutor. Moreover, given his background and continuing instructions, Michael is a leading expert on surveillance and investigatory powers (as well as information law and cybercrime) advising a number of corporates about their obligations under the UK regime and its interaction with the regimes overseas. That expertise was acknowledged by the invitation to give public evidence in April 2016 to the Parliamentary Joint Committee on Human Rights in respect of the human rights compatibility of the Investigatory Powers Bill (as it then was). Michael also provided evidence to David Anderson QC - the then reviewer of terrorism legislation - in his "Bulk Powers" review. Michael has provided a very substantial body of advice about the effect of the Investigatory Powers Act 2016 (‘IPA'), concentrating on the implications for ‘tech companies (UK and overseas) and especially in the light of the dynamic and changing jurisprudence concerning electronic surveillance powers in the UK coming from the Strasbourg Court, the European Court of Justice, and the English Courts and Tribunals. This practice builds on Michael's unique experience at GCHQ, where he had control of the full range of legal issues. He has unrivalled expertise in the fields of interception and surveillance, being responsible in part for the drafting of the IPA's predecessor (which is still to be seen in the current law) and its secondary legislation, and taking part within Government in every subsequent consideration of the law in this area. Aside from being part of the team managing GCHQ's legal relations with communications service providers and gaining a deep understanding of the law in this area, he was involved in all of the significant litigation concerning interception under RIPA. From that time he has wide experience of acting in public inquires, resisting challenges to Government action in the surveillance field (especially in relation to interception and the collection of communications data), and disclosure in civil and criminal litigation (including asset freezing) where issues of public interest immunity and the ban on the use of interception as evidence were to the fore. Michael was appointed a Companion of the Most Honourable Order of St Michael and St George (CMG) in the 2011 New Year's Honours list. BCL partner Michael Drury and senior associate Tom McNeill author the England & Wales chapter of...

Oliver Schneider-Sikorsky

Job Titles:
  • Partner

Richard Reichman

Job Titles:
  • Partner
"He is fastidious with the details… He is humble and a secret weapon." BCL partner, Richard Reichman writes for City.AM discussing how ground-breaking claims for alleged e... Richard Reichman speaks to the Investors' Chronicle on greenwashing BCL partner, Richard Reichman discusses with Investors' Chronicle the likely approach UK regul... Richard Reichman speaks to The Guardian on greenwashing BCL partner, Richard Reichman has been quoted in The Guardian's article on greenwashing, discussing...

Richard Sallybanks

Job Titles:
  • Analyst
  • Partner
  • Specialist
"He is a master tactician in how to represent people in these difficult high-value, long-running cases." Richard Sallybanks is a specialist in defending individuals and companies in domestic and international financial crime investigations, including in connection with proceeds of crime issues, asset freezes, the mutual legal assistance regime and Interpol. Richard Sallybanks speaks to GIR on the SFO's recent disclosure failings (August 2022) Richard Sallybanks speaks to The Times on SFO's latest debate on outsourcing (May 2022)

Rishi Joshi

Job Titles:
  • Associate

Robert Lawrie

Job Titles:
  • Consultant

Samuel McCann

Job Titles:
  • Associate

Sean Graham

Job Titles:
  • Head of Marketing & Business Development

Shaul Brazil

Job Titles:
  • Partner

Shula de Jersey

Job Titles:
  • Partner

Suzanne Gallagher

Job Titles:
  • Associate

Tom McNeill

Job Titles:
  • Partner
  • Senior Associate
BCL's Michael Drury and Tom McNeill provide a comprehensive guide to the agencies responsible for ci...