Criminal Law
Defence at every stage — investigation, bail, trial and appeal — with particular depth in white-collar matters.
Detailed overview
Criminal exposure is the one area where the cost of waiting is highest. We take instructions at the investigation stage wherever possible, because the account given in the first interview shapes everything that follows.
The team defends individuals and companies across conventional and economic crime: fraud, forgery, breach of trust, regulatory prosecutions and offences arising out of business activity, alongside general defence work including bail, quashing and appeals.
Every defence is built on the prosecution's own file. We test how evidence was obtained, whether the chain of custody holds, and whether the charge as framed is actually made out on the material available.
- Pre-arrest and pre-charge advice, and representation at interview
- Bail applications, including anticipatory and post-arrest relief
- White-collar and economic offences: fraud, forgery, breach of trust
- Corporate criminal liability and director exposure
- Cheque dishonour and financial instrument offences
- Quashing petitions and challenges to defective proceedings
- Trial advocacy and cross-examination
- Appeals, revisions and sentence review
Why you might need this service.
If one of these describes your situation, a short conversation will establish whether there is a matter worth pursuing.
You have been asked to attend an interview and do not yet know your exposure.
A complaint or first-information report has been registered against you or your company.
You need bail secured quickly and correctly the first time.
A conviction or sentence needs to be challenged on appeal.
The attorneys handling criminal law.
Pre-charge closure of a financial-services fraud investigation
- The challenge
- The complaint conflated the director's personal conduct with decisions taken at committee level. The company's own records were disorganised, and there was a real risk that an unprepared interview would produce an account that could not later be corrected.
- The outcome
- The investigation closed nine months later with no charge brought against the director. A parallel regulatory enquiry was concluded with no adverse finding.
Prior results do not guarantee or predict a similar outcome in any future matter. Every case turns on its own facts and applicable law.
“The investigation was opened on a Thursday afternoon. Omar was in the room with us on Friday morning with a clear picture of exposure and a plan. Nine months later the matter closed with no charge. I do not think that happens without early intervention.”
Before you make contact.
Submit the consultation form on this site, call the office, or email our intake address. We aim to acknowledge every enquiry within one business day and to offer an appointment within three. Where a matter is time-critical — an arrest, an injunction, a deadline that expires this week — say so in your first message and we will treat it accordingly.
A named partner or senior associate is responsible for every file and remains your point of contact throughout. Work is delegated within the team where it is efficient to do so — document review does not need partner time — but supervision does not move, and you will always know who is accountable.
Depending on the matter: hourly at the rate of the lawyer doing the work, a fixed fee for defined scopes such as documentation or a licence application, or a retainer for continuing advisory work. Whichever applies, you receive a written engagement letter setting out the basis, the rate and the estimate before any chargeable work begins.
Yes, directly, and at the first opportunity. A candid assessment early is worth considerably more than an encouraging one that changes eight months and a large invoice later. Where a case is weak we will explain why, and whether anything can be done to strengthen it.
Speak to the criminal law team.
Describe what has happened in a few sentences. We will tell you whether it is a matter we should take, what it would involve, and what it would cost.
- Direct line
- +1 (212) 555-0142
- Response time
- Every enquiry acknowledged within one business day.