Paul is a Forensic Accountant in our Commercial Disputes team and has a key role in our business crime and investigations practice.
Paul has nearly 20 years’ experience in white collar investigations, primarily investigating matters of fraud, bribery, corruption, false accounting and money laundering.
Paul collaborates with colleagues throughout the firm on investigations concerning disputes spanning a broad range of sectors. As well as investigating financial crime, Paul also has experience of investigations concerning environmental issues and offences against the person.
He joined from the UK Serious Fraud Office, where he led multidisciplinary teams of investigators, lawyers and accountants and was involved in investigations and prosecutions of a variety of high profile and complex financial crimes.
Paul was the lead Investigator in the Serious Fraud Office case team that won the national Attorney General’s Prosecuting Team of the Year Award 2023. Paul has received commendations from trial Judges and addressed subject matter conferences, including as an expert panel member at the Cambridge International Symposium on Economic Crime.
Paul’s prior case work included: planning comprehensive investigations, leading search operations, interviewing suspects under caution, conducting intelligence assignments, working in partnership with global and domestic law enforcement, giving evidence at court and analysing financial and communications data.
Expertise
- Business Crime & Investigations
- Commercial Disputes
- Commercial Litigation
- FCA investigations
- Internal Investigations
- White collar crime
- Economic and financial crime
- Fraud investigations
- Bribery & corruption investigations
- Money laundering
- False accounting
Recent work
Oil trading and mining bribery
Leading a team of Investigators in the investigation of a UK based subsidiary of a multinational commodity trading and mining company in relation to oil trading and related activities. This led to a successful conviction of seven counts of bribery under the Bribery Act 2010, including two under the failure to prevent bribery offence and the first ever corporate convictions for authorising bribery, resulting in the largest ever financial penalty following a corporate conviction.
Suspected bribery, fraud and money laundering in a mineral extraction company
Leading an investigation into suspected bribery, fraud and money laundering in a Sierra Leone mineral extraction company. This required a comprehensive financial analysis project involving the tracing of mixed source funds through multiple bank accounts across several jurisdictions belonging to a number of suspects.
LIBOR manipulation case
A lead Investigator in three LIBOR benchmark manipulation cases investigating corporates and individuals of extensive conspiracy offences across several jurisdictions and co-ordinating with domestic and overseas law enforcement and regulators including the US DoJ.
Fraud, forgery, fraudulent trading and false accounting offences
An Investigator as part of a team in the successful investigation and prosecution of the Fund Manager of a US$639 million hedge fund in a three-month trial at Southwark for fraud, forgery, fraudulent trading and false accounting offences.
€20 million Ponzi scheme prosecution
A lead Investigator in a successful prosecution of three defendants in a €20million Ponzi scheme for which he received a commendation and subsequently supporting confiscation proceedings. Managing victims in Spain and the UK, drafting statements and preparing financial statements and exhibits for court.
Cardiff City Football Club multi-million pound professional negligence claim
Assisting Cardiff City Football Club in a multi-million pound professional negligence claim against its previous insurance brokers.
Suspected assault
Successfully persuading a regional police force to reverse a decision to close a case into a suspected assault.