Profile: Monty Raphael

Business Crime

Biography: Business Crime

Monty Raphael is the head of fraud and regulatory at Peters & Peters, solicitors of London, UK. He is regarded as the 'doyen' of white-collar crime lawyers, and has been engaged in all aspects of litigation involving fraud for more than 40 years. He has made a particular speciality of civil and criminal fraud, both domestic and international. His specialisms include tax and customs infringements, financial regulation, money laundering and corruption compliance. Among the numerous high profile cases that he and his firm have been involved in over the last two decades are Lloyds of London, Guinness, Barlow Clowes, Blue Arrow, BCCI, Maxwell, Wickes, and a whole host of others, less well known or less amenable to publicity.

He is a Visiting Professor of Law at the University of Kingston. He is a director of the Fraud Advisory Panel, director of Transparency International UK Limited and honorary solicitor to The Howard League for Penal Reform.

He is a past president of the London Criminal Courts Solicitors Association; founder of the Business Crime Committee of the International Bar Association, immediate past-chair of its Anti-Corruption Working Group; ex member of the Council of the Institute of Education in the University of London; senior adviser to IBA/SBL Money Laundering Directive Implementation Group.

From 1982 to 1988 he served as a deputy metropolitan stipendiary magistrate. He was subsequently appointed as assistant recorder of the Crown Court.

He travelled extensively in Central and Eastern Europe for the Council of Europe on missions dealing with his specialist area. He is a frequent speaker at conferences and seminars, both in the UK and abroad and an occasional lecturer at The College of Europe and at the European Lawyers Academy (ERA), and has written very widely on his subject.

Monty is a founder member of the Fraud Advisory Panel of the Institute of Chartered Accountants of England and Wales and a member of The Law Society, The Westminster Law Society, The International Bar Association, The International Association of Penal Law, Transparency International, ALPFIEC (Association of Lawyers for the Protection of the Financial Interests of the European Community), The British-German Jurists Association and The American Bar Association.