David Corker
High Net Worth Guide 2024
Band 1 : Financial Crime: High Net Worth Individuals
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About
Provided by David Corker
Practice Areas
David specialises in in criminal or regulatory investigations, many of them international. David has acted for clients in almost every fraud and corruption case undertaken by the Serious Fraud Office. In relation to Financial Conduct Authority investigations, his work focuses on insider dealing, boiler room frauds and misleading the market. He has acted in most of the cartel investigations/prosecutions brought by the Office of Fair Trading (and its predecessors). He maintains a thriving general crime practice, representing clients in connection with allegations of homicide (including gross negligence manslaughter) and sexual offences.
Career
David received a BA in jurisprudence from Oxford University in 1983 and an MA from Sheffield University in 1984 in socio-legal studies. From 1984-1987 he served in the Metropolitan Police before qualifying as a solicitor in 1990. David founded his own firm, now Corker Binning, in 2000, having been a partner at Peters & Peters.
Professional Memberships
Committee Member of the City of London Law Society (Corporate Crime and Corruption Committee).
Publications
David regularly writes for the national and legal press and academically about criminal and regulatory law. He is the author of ‘Disclosure in Criminal Proceedings’ (OUP, 2009) and ‘Abuse of Process in Criminal Proceedings’ (Bloomsbury, 2014).
Chambers Review
High Net Worth
David Corker is a highly respected financial crimes lawyer, and deals with a wide range of financial crime matters, typically acting for high-profile individuals under SFO and FCA investigation.
Strengths
Provided by Chambers
"David is incredibly creative. He's had fantastic results for individuals. He's gone a different way totally and he's had brilliant results."
"David Corker is an amazing lawyer whose default thinking is out of the box."
"David is incredibly creative. He's had fantastic results for individuals. He's gone a different way totally and he's had brilliant results."
"David Corker is an amazing lawyer whose default thinking is out of the box."