Byrne and Partners LLP
Byrne and Partners LLP is a dedicated civil and criminal litigation practice providing individual partner attention and high levels of service. Our civil team specialise in commercial litigation, in particular, fraud, insurance and reinsurance and financial services. Our criminal defence team are experts in all aspects of fraud, money laundering and tax investigations and prosecution. We have extensive experience of confiscation and asset recovery proceedings and defending regulatory and disciplinary proceedings.
What the Legal Directories say about us
Byrne and Partners LLP is ‘a small but highly focused firm’ that is regularly instructed to act against banks and financial services institutions, and has expanded its insurance and reinsurance litigation practice with the recruitment of Yvonne Jefferies from Barlow Lyde & Gilbert LLP. The practice acted in a claim by 550 claimants who invested in tax planning schemes. Bernard O’Sullivan and Nicola Boulton ‘cannot be recommended highly enough’, and Jefferies ‘provides clear, concise advice without fuss’. Elizabeth Seborg was promoted to the partnership. (Legal 500 2011)
(ii) Fraud: Civil
Headed by leading fraud expert Bernard O’Sullivan, ‘excellent niche firm’ Byrne and Partners LLP is increasingly recognised as punching above its weight. O’Sullivan and Nicola Boulton (who ‘lives and breathes high-quality fraud work ’) are currently advising various defendants in the JSC BTA Bank proceedings, and are also acting in a $300m money laundering claim involving Russian insolvency law. (Legal 500 2011)
(iii) Fraud: Criminal
The highly recommended Michael Potts at Byrne and Partners LLP defends individuals in investigations and prosecutions brought by domestic and international regulators. His recent work includes representing three individuals in an FSA investigation regarding insider dealing. Matthew Frankland is well known and highly regarded. (Legal 500 2011)
