Omar Siddiqui

Omar Siddiqui leads the firm's criminal defence practice. He acts for individuals and companies from the investigation stage through trial and appeal, with a concentration in economic and white-collar offences: fraud, forgery, criminal breach of trust, and prosecutions arising out of ordinary business activity.

He spent four years as a special prosecutor handling economic offences before moving to defence work. That experience shapes how he builds a case — he knows how an investigation file is assembled, where the gaps usually are, and which weaknesses a prosecutor will not want tested.

Omar takes the view that criminal matters are won or lost early. He pushes hard for instructions at the pre-charge stage, when the account given at interview can still determine whether a matter proceeds at all, and he runs parallel regulatory and reputational workstreams where a client faces exposure on more than one front.

He also advises corporate clients on criminal risk in advance: delegation frameworks, internal investigation protocols, and the documentation that determines whether liability attaches to the company or stops at the individual.