David Corker Email & Phone Number

David specialises in acting for clients implicated in criminal or regulatory investigations, many of them international. He has many years’ experience of fraud, corruption cases and cartel investigations and also maintains a thriving general criminal practice.David has acted for clients in almost every large criminal fraud case undertaken by the Serious Fraud Office. He has considerable experience in international criminal cases involving, for example, allegations of corruption, money laundering or cartels. In relation to Financial Conduct Authority investigations, his work has focused on alleged insider dealing, boiler room frauds and misleading the market. He has also represented clients in connection with allegations of homicide (including gross negligence manslaughter) and sexual offences.David Corker has a formidable reputation as a criminal and regulatory litigator. He is ranked as a key individual (Band 1) in the fields of Financial Crime: Individuals and Cartel Investigations, and ranked in Band 3 for POCA Work & Asset Forfeiture by Chambers & Partners UK 2019. He is also recognised as a Leading Individual for Fraud: White-collar crime by The Legal 500 2019 and as one of the most highly regarded individuals by Who’s Who Legal: Business Crime Defence 2018. David is also featured as a leading practitioner for investigations by Who’s Who Legal, and is featured as one of the Top 100 lawyers in the UK 2015 edition of Super Lawyers UK.

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  Partner

  Corker Binning

  Jan 2000 - Present - London, United Kingdom

  Based in the heart of legal London, Corker Binning is a law firm specialising in business crime and fraud, regulatory litigation and general criminal work of all types. David's recent work at the firm includes:- Advising multiple clients being investigated or prosecuted by the SFO for fraud and bribery offences, including acting in the Tesco, JJB Sports, LIBOR and Olympus cases.- Conducting a corporate internal investigation into suspected bribery at a pharmaceuticals company.- Acting for a number of individuals who are the subject of hostile FCA criminal and regulatory investigations, including a senior banking figure implicated in the FX scandal.- Acting in most of the recent and current investigations by the OFT/CMA into alleged cartel activity.- Acting for celebrities and politicians in relation to historic sex abuse allegations.- Acting for journalists concerning phone-hacking allegations.- Advising defendants in relation to the CPS’s largest direct and indirect tax fraud prosecutions, including Operation Amazon.- Advising companies in relation to various criminal and regulatory matters, including bribery, food safety and money laundering compliance.- Advising private individuals in relation to general criminal matters, including sexual offences, crimes of violence and harassment.