Red Lion Chambers has appointed Maurice MacSweeney as client and business development director, a newly created role reflecting the set’s continued growth and expanding practice areas. Alongside its long-standing general crime expertise, chambers now advises on serious fraud, financial crime, corporate investigations, professional discipline, inquests and inquiries, and advisory work for corporates, regulators and government bodies.
MacSweeney brings a blend of legal, commercial and strategic experience to the role. After studying law at the University of Cambridge, he spent four years at a solicitors’ firm specialising in white collar crime, before moving into senior business development and strategy roles at 2 Hare Court and Doughty Street Chambers.
Most recently, he spent five years at global litigation funder Harbour, managing more than $1.5bn invested in commercial litigation, where he sourced investment opportunities and developed financing solutions for law firms. He said he was ‘delighted to be joining Red Lion Chambers at a crucial moment’ and is ‘looking forward to meeting clients’ and supporting both them and members of chambers.
Joint heads of chambers Gillian Jones KC and Tom Forster KC said MacSweeney ‘stood out in a highly competitive field’ and will focus on ‘strengthening chambers’ client engagement strategy’, ensuring the set continues to ‘listen closely to the needs of our clients’ while ‘raising the bar on service delivery’.
