Daniel King

Consultant, Crime

Daniel King

Department

My awards and achievements

Daniel is a Consultant working with the Complex & Serious Crime and Business Crime Teams. He is a well-known and highly respected expert in Criminal Law, having worked in this field at Forbes for more than 30 years.Daniel qualified in 1986 , achieving Higher Courts Advocacy (Crime) status in 2002 . He is an accredited High Cost Fraud Cases Supervisor, Higher Courts Advocate, Duty Solicitor and the Head of Forbes' Business and Financial Crime Team which deals with cases nationally.

He leads an impressive and skilled team with wide experience of all areas of criminal law, particularly business, financial crime and regulatory matters, and which interacts with the Firm's Business and Company Law departments.

He has recently dealt with cases including:

  • high value banking and mortgage frauds

  • international tax frauds involving missing traders, carousel transactions and multi-layered trading platforms and financial processing systems

  • money-laundering and transfer of criminal property

  • betting fraud conspiracies

  • bribery and corruption

  • restraint, confiscation, freezing orders and forfeiture of assets

  • extradition - both European and world-wide

  • international terrorism