About
Caroline is a Partner in the fraud team, who has substantial experience in complex, high profile and multi-jurisdictional fraud disputes, and white collar crime investigations. The disputes she acts on typically involve breaches of contract and misrepresentations, tortious / wrongful acts, civil fraud and asset tracing, and / or allegations of bribery and corruption; and regularly involve the need for injunctive relief which she has great experience in obtaining.
To illustrate, Caroline recently led the team who secured the acquittal of the firm’s client, John Mason, in the Serious Fraud Office’s prosecution of GPT, Jeffrey Cook, and John Mason – one of the most significant and high profile corruption trials in the UK (one of the Lawyer’s top 20 cases of 2023) which involved allegations that our client engaged in the payment of bribes to members of the Saudi Arabian Royal Family; she was part of the team who defended corporate clients in the $9 billion AHAB / SAAD litigation in which she was granted limited admission to the Cayman bar; she successfully defended a former employee of a multi-national oil company from high-profile allegations of bribery and corruption in Nigeria before the Milan Court of Appeal; and most recently she is leading the teams working on the cases of Super Fast Trading Limited v Governor and Company of the Bank of Ireland and Trinsic Collagen Limited v Procoll Limited, both involving allegations of fraud and dishonesty. She is adept at coordinating and bringing together the skills of various lawyers, experts, and asset recovery professionals in all such cases.
Caroline is also one of the founding members of the informal network of fraud and asset recovering practitioners, ACROSS Fraud; a member of the Women’s White Collar Defence Association; and is a regular speaker and contributor within the fraud, asset recovery, and enforcement community. Caroline has a very strong reputation amongst her peers, often being asked to co-counsel alongside fellow practitioners. Caroline is also a founding member and sits on the steering committee of the London International investigations & Asset Recovery Conference.
Caroline is admitted to practise in England and Wales.
Experience
- Acting for corporate clients in connection with an alleged $9 billion fraud currently being litigated in the Grand Court of the Cayman Islands
- Acting for 2 individuals in connection with an SFO investigation into allegations of bribery and corruption in a multi-billion pound telecommunications contract
- Acting for a sub-contractor to a telecommunications contract in a multi-million pound arbitration
- Acting for a well-known high street retailer in a dispute concerning a concession agreement
- Acting for a corporate owner and operator of care homes in claims for breach of warranty and misrepresentation against the vendors of the care homes
