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Provided by Adam Kane KC
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Adam Kane KC is a leading Silk and specialist in white-collar crime. He acts for professionals and company officers in complex proceedings brought by the Serious Fraud Office, the Financial Conduct Authority and HMRC. He has particular expertise in investment fraud and in defending cases of financial-market abuse. He advises and appears in high-profile bribery, corruption and ‘misconduct in public office’ cases. He represented the turnaround consultancy accountant in HBOS, the chief engineer at Harrods in the Royal Household corruption case, and acted at first instance and on appeal for the cartel organiser in the Marine-Hose case (the first prosecution of Cartel Offending under the Enterprise Act). Recent cases include a company director's multi-million pound Trading Standards fraud trial averted by Competition & Markets Authority undertakings, a solicitor acquitted of all counts in a £10 million property development fraud, and a solicitor acquitted of a £5 million wealth-management and trust fraud.
Adam Kane KC has a nationwide practice as a defence specialist in homicide. In addition to organised crime and gangland killings, he specialises in defending young and vulnerable people charged with murder. He also acts in gross negligence and corporate manslaughter cases complimentary to his fraud expertise.
Adam Kane KC advises and appears for respondents to pre-action restraint proceedings in the Crown and High Courts, in all aspects of confiscation proceedings. He brings his forensic expertise in fraud, and knowledge and experience of organised crime, to asset portfolios often valued in the millions and overseas assets with jurisdictional issues.
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Adam Kane KC is a well-regarded silk with significant experiencein serious and complex crimes. He has extensive experience handlinghomicide cases and hisbroad practice also encompasses fraud and financial crime.
Adam Kane KC handles matters involving suspected corruption, tax evasion and money laundering. Kane is frequently instructed to represent professionals facing charges of tax and investment fraud. He has added experience in bribery cases.
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Provided by Chambers
"He is a very well-established and highly regarded silk in financial crime. An excellent advocate, Adam gets to the heart of the issue quickly and makes super-persuasive closing and opening speeches."
"Adam works hard, communicates well with his clients and is able to foresee commercially the legal landscape. Juries warm instantly to the elegant manner in which he puts his case."
"Adam is always ten steps ahead and very responsive."
"Adam commands immediate respect from clients with his analytical approach and knowledge of the issues in the case."
"He is a tenacious advocate who is hard-working and fights for his clients."
"He is extremely hard-working and makes lovely use of language in a way that sounds poetic."
"He is a very well-established and highly regarded silk in financial crime. An excellent advocate, Adam gets to the heart of the issue quickly and makes super-persuasive closing and opening speeches."
"Adam works hard, communicates well with his clients and is able to foresee commercially the legal landscape. Juries warm instantly to the elegant manner in which he puts his case."
"Adam is always ten steps ahead and very responsive."
"Adam commands immediate respect from clients with his analytical approach and knowledge of the issues in the case."
"He is a tenacious advocate who is hard-working and fights for his clients."
"He is extremely hard-working and makes lovely use of language in a way that sounds poetic."
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