Laurence Winston Partner

Laurence Winston heads up the Litigation Team in London

Laurence specialises in acting for banks, asset based lenders and other financial institutions in worldwide and UK fraud investigations and asset recovery actions, obtaining freezing injunctions, search and seizure orders and other ancillary relief.  Laurence also specialises in complex banking and investment disputes and claims on guarantees, indemnities and warranties.  Laurence has also acted in numerous employee frauds and other commercial litigation.

Laurence lectures and presents on fraud and asset recovery to the Asset Based Finance Association, credit conferences and other business conferences.  He won ABFA's  "Lecturer of the Year" Award in 2005 and was nominated for the same award in 2006 and 2007.  He also appeared on CNBC Europe as an "expert" on fraud commenting on "Refco".

Representative Experience

• Advising on US$850m breach of contract claim in CIS.
• Acting for global financier in landmark invoice discounting civil fraud case against directors of national haulage business. Worldwide freezing injunctions were obtained to prevent dissipation of assets and the case was the largest invoice discounting case ever to have gone to trial. The trial lasted for 10 weeks and resulted in a £16m judgment for the financier.
• Acted as the Independent Solicitor in the Ferrari/McLaren "Spygate" case in the search and seizure injunction obtained by Ferrari.
• Acted in a US$50 million derivatives scheme dispute involving a leading investment bank.
• Acted as UK Counsel against Prince Jefri Bolkiah of Brunei in multi million dollar claim against his previous advisors.
• Acted for a large financier in relation to a £20 million fraud claim against the directors of a customer to whom the financier provided finance and stock facilities. This involved obtaining freezing injunctions and a search order against the relevant individuals.