Biography: Business Crime Defence

Nicholas Purnell heads Cloth Fair Chambers. Cloth Fair Chambers is a specialist set of Barristers' Chambers which was created in 2006 to bring together the acknowledged leaders at the Bar in providing focused advice and legal services to corporate clients internationally and in the UK. The experience which Chambers is able to bring to corporate problem-solving and the resolution of investigations by regulatory and prosecuting authorities enables prompt, innovative and accessible legal advice and assistance to be provided when critical and sensitive situations arise.

Chambers specialise in international/domestic fraud, corporate crime, regulatory/professional discipline matters and broader litigation requiring specialist advocacy or advisory skills. All of the members of Chambers are qualified to accept instructions from individuals or companies directly under the Public Access Scheme. Chambers is in a unique position to build the expert team following initial instruction.

Members of Chambers have recently been involved with the two most important authorities in plea negotiations with the SFO (Innospec and Dougall – multi-jurisdictional bribery cases), the innovation of civil settlements (Balfour Beatty), Competition Commission (Sports Direct), overseas corruption cases (Ibori, Gohil, Mabey) and a number of regulatory matters in the respective tribunals of the FSA, GMC, GDC, HRA and SRA. We have also recently been instructed in international matters arising in Hong Kong, Singapore, Greece and the Turks and Caicos Islands.

Chambers has been founded on the principle that the level of personal service and commitment which corporate clients expect and offer in their own professional lives is the entry point for the standards which Cloth Fair provides.

Please visit www.clothfairchambers.com for further information.