Stan Reiz KC

Practice Areas

Stan Reiz KC is consistently ranked as a leading silk in both general and financial crime.

His recent cases include: defending the alleged organiser of the high profile shooting murder of Ashley Dale; representing a male acquitted of the gang related 'zombie' knife murder of a 16 year old; acting for a man acquitted of the murder of his wife on the basis of the partial defence of 'loss of control'; defending a man acquitted of attempted murder following a shooting in which he was implicated by eyewitness and forensic evidence; representing a defendant acquitted of murder and wounding in the Grand Court of Grand Cayman following a double stabbing at a bar; defending the alleged mastermind of a substantial conspiracy to import hundreds of kilograms of class A drugs and firearms; successfully defending an army Captain accused of rape; and an author acquitted of the rape of a police investigator.

Mr Reiz KC's recent financial crime cases include: defending a woman accused of complicity in an alleged $170 million cryptocurrency money laundering arrangement which operated in the UK, Dubai, Iran and Turkey; representing a company director facing a private prosecution for an alleged £93 million fraud; acting for an interested party in confiscation proceedings concerning £20 million in cryptocurrency and defending the alleged organiser of a multi-million pound cigarette duty evasion scheme.

Publications

Co-authored "EU v UK: AML and CTF evolutionary changes under scrutiny. Who will come out on top?" published in the Compliance, Ethics & Sustainability Journal, Jan 2024