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Michael Potts, Partner

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Expertise

“Insider dealing and asset recovery specialist Michael Potts ‘combines an incredibly high level of academic ability with tremendous tactical nous’.”
– The Legal 500 2010 Edition

“Michael Potts ‘inspires confidence’.” – The Legal 500 2008

Michael specialises in the defence of financial crime, fraud and regulatory investigations and prosecutions. He has acted in numerous high profile investigations and prosecutions brought against individuals by the SFO, FSA, Fraud Prosecution Service, Revenue & Customs Prosecutions Office and other regulatory bodies and prosecution agencies. Michael also advises both companies and professional firms on their anti money laundering compliance. Michael is a Solicitor-Advocate (Higher Courts Criminal and Civil Proceedings).

Notable experience

Michael has acted for:

• a defendant in the first FSA prosecution for insider dealing
• a respondent to the FSA investigation into AIG/Gen Re
• a defendant in a high profile corruption case relating to the pensions review of the Prudential
• a defendant in an international tax fraud case involving the oil broking sector
• a solicitor defendant in a high value money laundering prosecution.

Background

Michael graduated from Oxford University in 1993. He qualified at Dechert LLP in 1997. Michael was a founding partner of Byrne and Partners LLP in 2003. He is a member of the Association of Regulatory and Disciplinary Lawyers and is a member of the Law Society’s Anti Money Laundering Panel. Michael regularly lectures on anti money laundering and proceeds of crime asset recovery issues. He is a contributing author to the Restraint and Confiscation Chapter of Fraud Law: Practice and Procedure.