Jamie Sharma

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Jamie Sharma is a highly regarded barrister specialising in Business Crime & Fraud, Inquests & Inquiries, Tax & Insolvency, Sanctions and Investigations.

Jamie has an exceptional track record in cases of seriousness and complexity, including high-profile investigations into publicly listed corporations, investment banks, senior executives, city solicitors and other business professionals. His recent instructions attest to the breadth of his expertise and includes ENRC PLC, Glencore PLC, Afren PLC and Balli Steel PLC and a number of confidential matters involving individuals and corporates suspected of involvement in financial wrongdoing.

Jamie’s white-collar experience includes cases involving national security and international sensitivity. He has advised and acted in matters involving suspected bribery of foreign heads of state, large-scale corruption and breach of sanctions. He is experienced in cases with a significant overseas dimension and has been responsible for liaising with the FBI, the US Department of Justice, the Securities and Exchange Commission, the US Treasury, authorities across the EU, in Switzerland and a wide range of offshore jurisdictions. In additional to his white-collar criminal practise, Jamie has acted in associated civil and regulatory litigation, including as counsel to HMRC in a series of ground-breaking civil tax fraud trials worth over £1billion to the UK exchequer and public law challenges to legal professional privilege.

Jamie has acted as counsel to two of the largest public inquiries ever held in the UK, the Undercover Policing Inquiry (Sir John Mitting) and the Covid-19 Public Inquiry (Baroness Hallett). His extensive work in this area has included advising on investigative strategy, providing leadership to multidisciplinary teams of lawyers and policy experts, advocacy and report writing. He acted in two of the Covid-19 Public Inquiry’s modules, examining pandemic preparedness and the award of public procurement contracts totalling billions of pounds during the crisis.