Ben Brocklehurst - Lawyer

ben.brocklehurst@byrneandpartners.com
+44 (0) 20 7842 1631

Expertise

Ben Brocklehurst is a vastly experienced Lawyer with particular expertise in defending high value white collar crime and related Restraint/Confiscation proceedings.

Notable experience

Acting for:

• A defendant in the first criminal insider-dealing prosecution brought by the FCA
• The defendant in a multi-jurisdictional £100m Confiscation and, latterly, Receivership proceedings brought by HMRC
• A defendant in an international multi-million money-laundering prosecution brought by the CPS
• A defendant in an international bribery and corruption prosecution brought by the SFO
• A defendant in the largest, at the time, market abuse prosecution brought by the FCA
• A defendant in a Film Tax Credit fraud prosecution brought by HMRC
• An individual in relation to an FCA investigation into LIBOR manipulation

Background

Ben qualified as a Fellow of the Institute of Legal Executives in 2005 having previously practiced as a Supervising Paralegal at Linklaters LLP from 1992 until he joined Titmuss Sainer Dechert (now Dechert LLP) as Head Paralegal in 1997. During this period Ben obtained extensive practical experience in numerous areas of civil and criminal law. Ben was a founding member of Byrne and Partners LLP when it was formed in 2003.

News and Articles

Software companies and revenue recognition - The Law Society Gazette 8 July 2015

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Guilty as charged? - 05 May 2016

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Yet more burden for the suspect to carry - 14 October 2016

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Reduction in Sentence for a Guilty plea – The Definitive guideline  - 10 April 2017

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

New rules to speed up freezing and confiscating criminal assets across the EU - 02 February 2018

The new outbreak of SARs – a potential fightback?  - 22 February 2019

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