Former FBI lawyer Lisa Osofsky is to be the next director of the Serious Fraud Office (SFO). Osofsky, an expert on money laundering, prosecuted more than 100 cases during a 30-year career. She has also worked in the private sector, including for Goldman Sachs. Robert Amaee, a former head of anti-corruption at the SFO and now partner at Quinn Emanuel Urquhart & Sullivan, predicted Osofsky would steer the organisation ‘to be ever more aggressive in targeting proceeds of crime and suspected money launderers’ and would make use of ‘the new unexplained wealth orders and the upcoming public register of company beneficial ownership’.
07 June 2018
From the FBI to the SFO
MOVERS & SHAKERS
Anthony Collins—William Hallett & Lorna Scully
Anthony Collins hires two talented legal directors
Switalskis—five appointments
Firm expands national abuse compensation team
Mathys & Squire—nine promotions
IP firm announces new partners and senior promotions across UK offices
NEWS
A High Court ruling has sent a jolt through the legal profession after a newly qualified solicitor used an internal AI tool to produce court correspondence containing a fabricated legal citation
A significant data privacy ruling has clarified what counts as valid consent under UK data protection law
Executors may be overlooking billions of pounds in estate assets hidden in forgotten investments and misplaced share certificates
Britain’s booming non-surgical cosmetics market is operating in what some critics describe as a regulatory ‘Wild West’
Family contact disputes are becoming an increasingly prominent feature of Court of Protection litigation
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