Commercial Fraud
Alfred is regularly instructed in cases where allegations of fraud or dishonesty are made, including in cases involving the economic torts and bribery. He is experienced in obtaining freezing injunctions and in other applications for interim injunctive relief as against a background of allegations of commercial fraud. His practice involves particularly complex and high value matters in the High Court and Court of Appeal, and international arbitration.
He is currently instructed in a number of commercial fraud cases including cases involving breaches of fiduciary duty by former employees and directors engaged in unlawful means conspiracies to exploit confidential information; a very substantial international arbitration involving allegations of unlawful means conspiracy where the sums in issue are in the hundreds of millions of dollars; other matters where the stakes are very high because allegations of fraud are being made against regulated professionals.
Commercial Fraud Cases
Recent cases include:
- Successfully defending at trial a firm of property agents alleged to have induced an investor to purchase a property using fraudulent misrepresentations.
- Obtaining a freezing order against the perpetrators of an alleged Ponzi scheme concerning forex trading.
- Instructed on behalf of a regulated professional being sued by a client for allegedly perpetrating a fraud on the client.
- Obtaining a freezing order against a defendant to a claim alleging a transaction at an undervalue.
- Defending a substantial claim by an energy supplier, involving allegations that the energy contracts were procured by the payment of bribes.
- Instructed with Leading Counsel in a s.994 petition (6 week trial, case settled post-trial) in which allegations were made of fraud involving the Company and third parties to the detriment of the minority shareholder.
- Instructed in Fraudulent Misrepresentation claim involving a fraudulently procured transfer of title to a property.
- Acting on behalf of a company in a claim against the estate of a company director alleged to have carried out a historic fraud against the company.
- Trial counsel (lead Junior) in multi-million dollar Fraudulent Misrepresentation claim brought by way of international arbitration.
- Injunctive relief – responding to application to restrain allegedly fraudulent misrepresentations made by a sales team as part of a conspiracy to the detriment of their market competitors.
- Freezing injunction – worldwide freezing order involving clients resident overseas and assets held overseas.
- Norwich Pharmacal relief – order for disclosure of documents against a bank allegedly caught up in the fraudulent misrepresentations of a property developer made to his former business partner.
- Various liquidator claims against directors alleged to have carried out frauds against the companies of which they were directors.
