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Andrew Smith Partner
Andrew Smith is an experienced litigator who has advised on a range of white collar criminal and regulatory matters, many of them international in nature. Andrew is recognised as a Band 2 practitioner for ‘Crime: Extradition’ and a Band 3 practitioner for ‘Financial Crime: Individuals’ by Chambers UK 2018. He is recognised by The Legal 500 UK 2017 in the fields of Financial Services and Dispute Resolution. He is included as a leading lawyer in the Who’s Who: Business Crime Defence Lawyers 2018 guide and was ranked in the Who’s Who: Investigations 2018 guide as being the number one “future leader” in Europe. In 2017 he was named as one of the 40 leading investigations lawyers in the world under the age of 40. He was named “Lawyer of the Week” by The Times (London) for successfully defending the first extradition request received by the UK from the UAE.
Latest Posts
- Andrew Smith discusses the use of compelled testimony in criminal proceedings in GIR
- The use of compelled testimony in criminal proceedings
- Do search warrants have extraterritorial effect?
- Andrew Smith comments on anti-money laundering measures and FinTech in KYC360
- Andrew Smith speaking at the Thomson Reuters Criminal Law Review Conference 2017
- Andrew Smith comments on the new National Economic Crime Centre in The Times Law Brief, Bloomberg, City A.M., GIR and The Law Society Gazette
- Andrew Smith discusses extradition under the present regime in The Times
- Don’t expect prosecutions to come from the Paradise Papers
- Andrew Smith comments on Stuart Scott extradition case in The Times Law Brief, MailOnline and Financial Reporter
- Andrew Smith moderating panel at ABA’s Sixth Annual London White Collar Crime Institute
Areas of expertise
Andrew’s white collar criminal and regulatory practice includes numerous domestic and cross-border investigations and prosecutions brought by the Serious Fraud Office, Financial Conduct Authority, National Crime Agency, Crown Prosecution Service and HM Revenue & Customs into allegations including conspiracy to defraud, offences under the Fraud Act 2006, tax fraud, money laundering, market abuse, insider dealing, false accounting and bribery/corruption.
Andrew has acted in a string of complex and high-profile extradition cases, including requests emanating from Russia, Ukraine, the United States, South Africa, Thailand, Sri Lanka and the Middle East (particularly the United Arab Emirates), as well as a number of EU countries, and has experience of making representations to INTERPOL for the removal of red and diffusion notices. He also has experience where mutual legal assistance is sought from the UK by foreign prosecutors, particularly overseas restraint orders and requests for witness evidence.
Andrew has represented companies and witnesses in corporate internal investigations, and has developed expertise in a number of areas of regulatory crime, particularly financial services (including regulatory investigations by the FCA), environmental protection, as well as trade and economic sanctions. Andrew also maintains a lively general crime practice, which in the past few years has ranged from defending individuals accused of perverting the course of justice and misconduct in public office (in relation to an alleged cover-up of historic sex abuse at a religious institution) to sexual offences.
Latest Posts
- Andrew Smith discusses the use of compelled testimony in criminal proceedings in GIR
- The use of compelled testimony in criminal proceedings
- Do search warrants have extraterritorial effect?
- Andrew Smith comments on anti-money laundering measures and FinTech in KYC360
- Andrew Smith speaking at the Thomson Reuters Criminal Law Review Conference 2017
- Andrew Smith comments on the new National Economic Crime Centre in The Times Law Brief, Bloomberg, City A.M., GIR and The Law Society Gazette
- Andrew Smith discusses extradition under the present regime in The Times
- Don’t expect prosecutions to come from the Paradise Papers
- Andrew Smith comments on Stuart Scott extradition case in The Times Law Brief, MailOnline and Financial Reporter
- Andrew Smith moderating panel at ABA’s Sixth Annual London White Collar Crime Institute
He strategises very well and makes one feel very comfortable with his advice.
Chambers UK 2017
Latest Posts
- Andrew Smith discusses the use of compelled testimony in criminal proceedings in GIR
- The use of compelled testimony in criminal proceedings
- Do search warrants have extraterritorial effect?
- Andrew Smith comments on anti-money laundering measures and FinTech in KYC360
- Andrew Smith speaking at the Thomson Reuters Criminal Law Review Conference 2017
- Andrew Smith comments on the new National Economic Crime Centre in The Times Law Brief, Bloomberg, City A.M., GIR and The Law Society Gazette
- Andrew Smith discusses extradition under the present regime in The Times
- Don’t expect prosecutions to come from the Paradise Papers
- Andrew Smith comments on Stuart Scott extradition case in The Times Law Brief, MailOnline and Financial Reporter
- Andrew Smith moderating panel at ABA’s Sixth Annual London White Collar Crime Institute
Recent work
- Acting in the SFO investigations into Tesco, Airbus, British American Tobacco, GSK, Unaoil and LIBOR , as well as NCA investigations concerning allegations of overseas bribery/corruption Acting for a defendant in the FCA’s largest prosecution of insider dealing (Operation Tabernula) as well as FCA regulatory proceedings concerning approved persons.
- Acting for individuals sought on complex extradition requests, including Shrien Dewani (South African request on allegations of murder and kidnap), Andrew Symeou (Greek request on allegations of manslaughter) and Mohammed Lodhi (the first UAE request to the UK on allegations of drug trafficking), as well as high-profile businesspeople whose extradition has been sought on white-collar criminal investigations in France, Romania and India.
- Assisted a major City firm with a corporate internal investigation for a well-known UK company concerning suspicions of complicity in tax evasion and money laundering.
- Advising companies on mutual legal assistance requests received from foreign prosecutors in proceedings alleging crimes ranging from tax evasion to crimes against humanity.
- Representing companies and individuals in many of the investigations and prosecutions brought for alleged breaches of export and trade controls, particularly in relation to the Iran arms embargo.
Latest Posts
- Andrew Smith discusses the use of compelled testimony in criminal proceedings in GIR
- The use of compelled testimony in criminal proceedings
- Do search warrants have extraterritorial effect?
- Andrew Smith comments on anti-money laundering measures and FinTech in KYC360
- Andrew Smith speaking at the Thomson Reuters Criminal Law Review Conference 2017
- Andrew Smith comments on the new National Economic Crime Centre in The Times Law Brief, Bloomberg, City A.M., GIR and The Law Society Gazette
- Andrew Smith discusses extradition under the present regime in The Times
- Don’t expect prosecutions to come from the Paradise Papers
- Andrew Smith comments on Stuart Scott extradition case in The Times Law Brief, MailOnline and Financial Reporter
- Andrew Smith moderating panel at ABA’s Sixth Annual London White Collar Crime Institute
Career
Andrew Smith re-joined Corker Binning in July 2007 (having previously worked here as a paralegal) and became a partner in April 2012. He trained and qualified as a solicitor at Hogan Lovells.
Andrew is a committee member of the Fraud Lawyers Association and a member of the Defence Extradition Lawyers Forum. He is a co-editor of the Lloyds Law Review (Financial Crime) digest and a recently appointed co-editor of Archbold.
Latest Posts
- Andrew Smith discusses the use of compelled testimony in criminal proceedings in GIR
- The use of compelled testimony in criminal proceedings
- Do search warrants have extraterritorial effect?
- Andrew Smith comments on anti-money laundering measures and FinTech in KYC360
- Andrew Smith speaking at the Thomson Reuters Criminal Law Review Conference 2017
- Andrew Smith comments on the new National Economic Crime Centre in The Times Law Brief, Bloomberg, City A.M., GIR and The Law Society Gazette
- Andrew Smith discusses extradition under the present regime in The Times
- Don’t expect prosecutions to come from the Paradise Papers
- Andrew Smith comments on Stuart Scott extradition case in The Times Law Brief, MailOnline and Financial Reporter
- Andrew Smith moderating panel at ABA’s Sixth Annual London White Collar Crime Institute
Andrew Smith comments on anti-money laundering measures and FinTech in KYC360