Jessica Tate

Practice Areas

Crime

Financial Crime

Career

Jessica Tate’s practice encompasses wide-ranging white-collar crime, including high-value/large-scale company fraud, money laundering, bribery, sanctions and corruption. She regularly prosecutes for the Insolvency Services, Companies House and CPS and acts in private prosecutions of high-value complex cases often involving tensions between ongoing civil and criminal proceedings.

She is instructed in cases involving restraint, forfeiture and confiscation, advising on discharging or varying restraint orders at early stages in proceedings. She has acted in cases flowing from ‘Operation Car Wash’, the biggest corruption scandal in Latin American history.

Many of her cases involve multiple jurisdictions, including Latin and Central America, USA, Switzerland and Africa, requiring a ‘cross-border’ understanding of global asset tracing and markets, particularly in countries that predominantly remain ‘cash’ economies.

She regularly acts for clients subjected to politically motivated prosecutions, advising on how the overlap between political bias or regime change can affect a decision to prosecute, or how new legislation can adversely affect an individual’s personal or business interests.

Further specialises in the niche area of cryptocurrency: cases where the prosecution has misunderstood how those currencies operate and how market fluctuations resulting in clients’ assets being unfairly restrained and incorrect allegations of criminality charged against them.

Jessica has experience in the use of multiple Mutual Legal Assistance Treaties (MLATs) and International Letters of Request (ILORs) having given a talk at a UN conference on the subject.

Professional Memberships

The Honourable Society of Lincoln’s Inn

Young Fraud Lawyers Association

The Lord Denning Society

Criminal Bar Association

South Eastern Circuit