Lisa McKinnon-Lower joined hasSpencer West as a white-collar crime specialist. Having originally qualified as a barrister in 2010, Lisa has over 15 years experience acting for individuals and corporate clients in a broad range of financial offences and related matters.
Lisa has particular expertise in bribery and corruption, money laundering, fraud, tax evasion and market abuse matters and has acted for clients in some of the most high-profile cases brought by the SFO, FCA, CPS and other UK and international prosecution authorities. Many of those cases involved complex cross boarder issues such as requests made pursuant to mutual legal assistance treaties, double jeopardy, human rights, and extradition. Lisa has regularly advised in some of the most high profile and complicated sanctions matters.
In addition, Lisa has considerable experience acting for clients in civil fraud and director misfeasance cases, civil tax matters brought by HMRC, as well as personal and company insolvency matters.
Lisa is well known and respected in the industry as someone who can provide pragmatic and results oriented advice.
- Asset Seizure and Forfeiture
- Bribery and Corruption
- Challenging Suspicious Activity Reports/ Account Freezing Orders (both civil and criminal)
- Complex Fraud
- Confiscation Proceedings
- Extradition
- Human Rights
- Judicial Review
- Money Laundering Offences (both under the MLR and POCA)
- Prosecutions under the Insolvency Act
- Sanctions
- Serious and General Crime
- Tax Evasion (including Tax Tribunal matters)