This is the first finance forum I have joined. Just so as you know I am a lawyer with history in defending Fraud trials and financial investigations. I decided that now was the time that I offered my services and capitalised on them under my own name.
I am a very plain speaking lawyer, and I am not into the usual flowery language that you may have got used to from others of my breed.
I do not just do compliance/regulation and fraud - as a trial advocate I can take your case from instructions all the way via the high court and the court of appeal.
I was recently acting in a ?40 million pound Mandate Fraud investigated by the NCA that fell apart. I don't want to boast too much, but will say that the FCA were intended to refer certain matters to the NCA - and if you face such an issue, let me know - I might be the man for your job.
There's the end of my plug.
I will add that I am paying particularly close attention to the FCA and how they approach the bridging finance industry, which is the fastest growing sector of the finance market in the UK. I get the impression that the FCA are kind of making things up as they go along.
Not only that I am also curious about the recent opening of the business court in London.