Blackstone Chambers

As a ‘very strong set with breadth for civil fraud’, Blackstone Chambers is particularly well-equipped to handle fraud matters in the financial services sector, including cases touching on asset recovery, bribery, breach of fiduciary duty, as well as anti-counterfeiting. Robert Howe KC is instructed for five of the fifteen defendants in Crane Bank v DFCU Bank and others, a $250 million claim concerning the collapse and sale of one of Uganda’s largest banks, allegedly the result of a corrupt scheme and unlawful means conspiracy. In the BVI, Andrew Hunter KC and Tom Mountford acted for the successful respondents on appeal in XYZ, Chia Hsing Wang v Real Assets (RA) Global Opportunity Fund I, Floreat Real Estate, a case involving allegations of non-disclosure and misrepresentation. Tom Weisselberg KC continues to act for the first defendant in Public Institution for Social Security Fund v Al Rajaan, a $850m claim brought by the Kuwaiti public pension fund, which alleges corruption on the part of its former director-general.