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Emmeline Coerkamp, Solicitor

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Expertise

Emmeline Coerkamp is a criminal litigation lawyer with experience of a range of white collar crime matters. She has expertise in defending criminal fraud prosecutions, particularly matters brought by the Serious Fraud Office (SFO), as well as HM Revenue and Customs (HMRC) and the Crown Prosecution Service. She also has experience of confiscation proceedings.

Notable experience

• £1 million alleged income tax evasion case brought by HMRC
• Confiscation order in excess of £1 million under POCA 2002
• Pharmaceutical case of alleged price fixing brought by the SFO (‘Operation Holbein’), which resulted in the quashing of the indictment against all defendant companies and executives
• IKEA supplier case brought by the SFO alleging £15 million corruption payments between suppliers and staff

Background

Emmeline graduated from Oxford Brookes University in 2002 and completed her LPC at the College of Law in Guildford. She joined Byrne and Partners LLP in 2010, having trained at Irwin Mitchell LLP. She is on the Committee of the Young Fraud Lawyers Association, a member of the Junior Lawyers Division and the Fraud Training Group.