Peters & Peters

Peters & Peters is an international law firm based in London, recognised for its market-leading specialist practices in business and financial crime, regulatory investigations, civil fraud and commercial litigation. 

Established in 1938, Peters & Peters was the first UK law firm to focus on white collar crime and civil fraud for HNW individuals and families. The firm is uniquely well-positioned to handle parallel proceedings, whether for claimants, defendants or interested third parties, where criminal, regulatory and civil liability are all relevant considerations. This equips the firm to pursue innovative and unusual resolutions on behalf of clients worldwide. 

Peters & Peters’ clients include wealthy individuals and families, politicians, family and private offices, global financial investors and senior executives. The firm also acts for governments, multinational corporations and financial institutions, frequently advising foreign regulators and international organisations. Many of the firm’s cases are high profile and complex, involving a pronounced political, cross-border and reputational element as well as criminal and civil liability. 

Throughout its long history, the firm has built connections with elite practitioners all over the world, with whom it retains strong links. The firm has particular expertise in anti-money laundering, bribery and corruption, commercial litigation, competition litigation, corporate investigations, criminal antitrust (cartels), cybersecurity and data protection, economic sanctions, export controls, extradition and mutual legal assistance, financial regulation, fraud (civil and criminal), insider dealing, insolvency, international asset tracing, private prosecutions, tax investigations and disputes and trust litigation. 

The firm has deep knowledge of international remedies, private prosecutions, non-prosecution agreements, removal of Interpol Red Notices and delisting of sanctioned individuals, worldwide freezing orders, disclosure orders, search and seizure, passport orders, unexplained wealth orders, and securing and enforcing foreign judgments. 

RECENT HIGH-PROFILE CLIENTS INCLUDE: 

• a senior Emirati official who was a lead suspect on the global 1MBD case centred on allegations of corruption 

• a former senior executive of Barclays Investment Bank in the UK’s landmark fraud prosecution over payments made by Barclays to a Qatari sovereign wealth fund and the Prime Minister of Qatar 

• Russian businessman Alexander Tugushev, in proceedings concerning a sophisticated conspiracy to deny the existence of his one-third interest in the Norebo Group, estimated to be worth $1.5 billion 

• a former Geneva-based partner of a Swiss Bank defending a multimillion-plus claim froman overseas state 

• a well-known art collector in civil proceedings against his former financial director and advisor 

• a prominent Russian businesswoman and three other persons whose extradition was sought by the Russian Federation an Indian diamond businessman in civil proceedings brought by the London branch of an overseas bank

• numerous business people facing investigations for alleged VAT and other tax fraud 

• a business pursuing a fraud and asset tracing claim against its former director and an offshore company under his control, involving misappropriation of several million US dollars and the tracing of monies through Cyprus, Russia and Switzerland

• a high-profile Russian billionaire who was made subject to EU sanctions arising from Russia’s activities in Ukraine 

• a HNW private client on the loss of their superyacht involving proceedings in Malta and Italy, as well as a UK arbitration and defamation proceedings 

OUTSTANDING LEVELS OF SERVICE 

Each and every one of Peters & Peters’ clients receives a personal service. The firm is large enough to service major investigations and disputes, while remaining small enough to ensure clients remain in close contact with the firm’s partners as well as its specialist teams of highly trained and experienced associates. Peters & Peters has been consistently ranked as top tier by leading legal directories. Chambers & Partners says the firm has ‘a long-standing reputation in the market for handling financial crime matters for HNW individuals’, and is ‘a go-to firm for financial crime and white-collar crime work’.