Keith Wood
PARTNER
Responsible for the City Office.
Areas of Specialisation: Serious Fraud; Serious Organised Crime; Asset Confiscation; Money Laundering.
Has defended many high profile and complex prosecution brought by SFO; FSA; Special Casework CPS; SOCA; City of London Fraud Squad.
Regularly ranked as leading individual Chambers UK.
VHCC supervisor.
Recent and current cases:
- R v P and others – Ponzi fraud, value in excess of £100 million, described as being the UK’s equivalent to the Madoff scheme;
- R v B and others - complex multi-handed money laundering/kidnap prosecution involving central plot to defraud the London clearing banks;
- R v H – substantial tax credit fraud;
- R v A and others – large scale multi million mortgage fraud;
- R v A – Operation Eaglewood – money laundering / drugs prosecution to the value of £100 million;
- R v H - particularly complex fraud confiscation proceedings; Crown sought the recovery of £4 million, proceedings spanned over four years which were eventually discontinued;
- R v P - multi-handed murder trial, only defendant to be acquitted;
- R v Y – very high profile class A drugs conspiracy re-trial;
- R v G – defended one of Baybasin organisation (extortion);
- R v M – defended a director of QPR concerning allegations of kidnap of Paladini – acquitted;
- R v Cash – conviction overturned in Court of Appeal, fresh evidence;
- R v W – enforcement of outstanding POCA sums stayed as an abuse of process.
Professional Memberships: LCCSA.
Career: Qualified 1996. Worked as assistant solicitor at Lewis Nedas before being made a partner in 2010.
Personal: Born January 1970, Educated at Hull University and College of Law. Married with two children. Resides in Surrey.