Sam Whiteley

Solicitor, Peters & Peters

Sam is an Associate in the Business Crime & Investigations team at Peters & Peters, where he also trained. Before joining the firm, he worked for two years in the litigation team of an international energy company, where he worked on a range of arbitration and litigation, including a large multijurisdictional fraud case with criminal and civil limbs.

Sam has a first-class BA in English from the University of Oxford and a law degree from the University of London. Sam also worked at Macfarlanes LLP, where he assisted on multiple matters with a Russia or CIS element, and went on secondment to alternative investment firm Oak Hill Advisors L.P. to assist them with financial regulatory work.

Sam speaks conversational Spanish and has been published by numerous publications.

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Asset recovery in private prosecutions

Practice Notes

This Practice Note discusses the use of restraint orders, confiscation proceedings and compensation orders in the context of private prosecutions. It draws together some of the key themes arising out of asset recovery proceedings brought by private prosecutors and sets out some of the key considerations for private prosecutors when choosing to pursue a private prosecution as opposed to any other means of redress. It also addresses some of the key recent cases on confiscation and enforcement of confiscation orders in this area. It covers restraint orders in private prosecution proceedings and when a private prosecutor should consider applying for a restraint order, obtaining confiscation and compensation orders in private prosecution proceedings.

Corporate Crime