Verity Quaite

Verity is employed part-time as a Senior Associate in the Commercial Crime team at Fieldfisher and accepts instructions in a self-employed capacity through 18 St John Street Chambers.

 

Verity has experience of prosecuting and defending in the criminal courts. She has been instructed by the CPS, HMRC and the Insolvency Service and has prosecuted companies and directors for offences under the Companies Act 2006. She has significant experience acting in confiscation proceedings under the Proceeds of Crime Act 2002, acting for both prosecution and defence and has represented individuals suspected of fraud in interview and in court.

 

In addition to her experience as an advocate, Verity has advised companies in relation to potential defences under the Bribery Act 2010 and has worked in multi-disciplinary teams conducting cross-border corporate investigations for companies under active investigation by the SFO. She spent time in-house on secondment to the Ethics & Compliance department of a well-known listed multi-national corporation, where she conducted internal investigations across the Middle East and Africa region into a broad spectrum of wrongdoing, from discrimination and harassment, through to theft, fraud and bribery. She is part of the team that represented ENRC during investigation by the SFO, which resulted in the closure of the case without charge following a ten year investigation.