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Simmons strengthens City fraud team with Kingsley Napley hire

Simmons & Simmons is boosting its crime, fraud and investigations team with the hire of Kingsley Napley criminal litigation partner Stephen Gentle. Gentle, who is top-ranked in Chambers and Partners for both UK cartel defence and corporate crime, joined Kingsley Napley in 1993, becoming a partner in 2001. He will join Simmons' nine-partner crime, fraud and investigations team, which is headed by Nick Benwell, in June.
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The Transfer Window: recent moves including SNR, Gateley, K&L Gates

Harbottle & Lewis has recruited top-rated defamation and reputation management partner John Kelly from Schillings, in an eye-catching hire for the City firm. Kelly has acted for a raft of high-profile clients including disgraced cyclist Lance Armstrong and former England manager Steve McClaren, as well as other celebrities including Steve Coogan, Madonna, Nicole Kidman, Angelina Jolie and Matt Lucas.
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CC makes key white collar hire with addition of top Norton Rose partner

Clifford Chance (CC) is bulking up its regulatory enforcement and white collar crime practice in London with the hire of Norton Rose litigation partner Dorian Drew. Drew, who joined Norton Rose in 2000, recently led a Norton Rose team advising former Barclays chief executive Bob Diamond in relation to the Libor rate-fixing scandal. He is expected to join CC this summer.
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Slaughters brought in by SFO for multimillion-pound Tchenguiz claim

Slaughter and May has been instructed by the Serious Fraud Office (SFO) to defend it against claims totalling as much as £300m resulting from its failed investigation into businessmen and brothers Robert and Vincent Tchenguiz. The SFO today (28 February) confirmed the appointment of the magic circle firm, which comes after the collapse of the long-running investigation into the brothers for suspected impropriety in relation to the 2008 failure of Icelandic bank Kaupthing.
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Ex-39 Essex Street QC handed three and a half year tax fraud sentence

Former 39 Essex Street QC Rohan Pershad has been jailed for three and a half years after being found guilty of tax fraud worth more than £600,000. The sentencing today (26 February) in court room five of Blackfriars Crown Court comes after clinical negligence specialist Pershad took silk just two years ago.
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CC and Thomson Reuters team up for online anti-bribery training initiative

Clifford Chance (CC) has teamed up with Thomson Reuters to launch an e-learning programme focusing on competition, antitrust, anti-corruption and anti-bribery. The joint initiative has seen the magic circle firm and the information provider work together to draw up online courses for financial services firms and corporates, which can be monitored on a real-time basis by HR and compliance staff.
2 minute read

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39 Essex Street silk convicted of £600,000 tax fraud

39 Essex Street Chambers Rohan Pershad QC was today (11 February) found guilty of tax fraud worth more than £600,000 at Blackfriars Crown Court. Investigators at HM Revenue and Customs (HMRC) found that Pershad failed to declare or pay £627,839 of VAT over a period of 12 years, instead spending the cash on luxury homes and private school fees for his children.
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Ex-Ince partner handed jail term of almost five years after fraud probe

Former Ince & Co partner Andrew Iyer has been jailed for four years and eight months following allegations of fraud involving millions of pounds of client money. Iyer, who was sentenced today (7 February) at the Old Bailey, resigned from Ince in July 2010 following a period of suspension for "irregular financial behaviour".
2 minute read

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Libor's long tail – lawyers jostle as bank scandals spread through the market

The new year may be a time to start afresh, but the Libor scandal that dominated business headlines in the second half of 2012 is – for advisers – showing no signs of abating. At Clifford Chance (CC), the news that its client Royal Bank of Scotland (RBS) is in the final stages of a settlement with US and UK regulators over its alleged Libor role means the firm's regulatory lawyers will have had a busy start to 2013.
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Debevoise takes Rolls-Royce role on SFO bribery and corruption probe

Debevoise & Plimpton is advising Rolls-Royce on a probe by the Serious Fraud Office (SFO) into bribery and corruption allegations involving intermediaries in overseas markets. Last week the company confirmed it had passed on information to the SFO regarding alleged malpractice in Indonesia, China and other countries.
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