Roger Laville
Roger Laville is a barrister at Five Paper. Before he transferred to the bar in 2015, he was a partner in a firm of solicitors where he specialised in finance, insolvency and fraud litigation.
He has acted for all the major clearing banks, as well as wealth, mortgage, specialist and local lenders, and has undertaken secondments with Barclays Bank and the Royal Bank of Scotland, giving him a great insight into the priorities and pressures affecting in-house lawyers. He has also represented insolvency practitioners from the big four to niche practices and many private businesses and individuals.
He has a particular interest in fraud cases, especially those involving mortgage, investment fraud and the proceeds of crime. He is a member of the Bar Council anti-money laundering working group.