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Andrew Smith

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 ranked for ‘Crime: Extradition’, ‘Financial Crime: Individuals’ and ‘POCA Work & Asset Forfeiture’ by Chambers and Partners UK 2021. He is recognised by The Legal 500 UK 2020 as a leading individual in Fraud: White-Collar Crime. 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.

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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.

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“His judgement is very sharp.”

“He is a really fantastic partner, a very strong performer, cerebral and perfectly prepared.”

Chambers UK 2021

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Recent work

Acting for individual suspects in the SFO investigations into Tesco, Airbus, British American Tobacco, GSK, Unaoil, Petrofac, Quindell and LIBOR , as well as individual suspects in a variety of NCA investigations concerning allegations of fraudulent trading, breaches of financial sanctions and overseas bribery/corruption.
Acting for numerous individual suspects and witnesses in FCA criminal investigations into allegations of insider dealing, market abuse and breaches of the Money Laundering Regulations 2017, acted for a defendant in the FCA’s largest ever prosecution of insider dealing (Operation Tabernula), and acting in parallel 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 recently been sought on white-collar criminal investigations in France, Romania and Greece.
Successfully made representations for the removal of INTERPOL red notices requested by prosecuting authorities in countries including Russia, Uzbekistan, Iran, Pakistan, India, the UAE and Bahrain.
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 and individuals 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.

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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 member of the Defence Extradition Lawyers Forum. He is a co-editor of the Lloyds Law Review (Financial Crime) digest, speaks and writes regularly about financial crime and extradition, and a recently appointed co-editor of Archbold.