Piers Rake

PARTNER

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Piers Rake
Partner
T 0208 092 8411
E piers.rake@astraea-group.com

Biography

Piers Rake is a Solicitor, a CEDR Accredited Mediator, Certified Fraud Examiner, and Forensic Investigator.

With a background in commercial litigation, Piers has 20 years of experience helping businesses, international organisations and governments to manage risk, resolve disputes and investigate and respond to allegations or instances of fraud, corruption, bribery, money laundering and other acts of wrongdoing and misconduct.

Piers has led financial and non-financial cross border investigations in Europe, the Middle East and North and Sub-Saharan Africa, on behalf of clients operating in a range of sectors, including financial services (having been global head of financial crime investigations at Barclays), healthcare, energy & power, construction, and the public sector.

Piers has led investigations into organised crime networks, high-end money laundering and fraud, in relation to drugs and human trafficking, ‘shadow-banking’ schemes, trade-based money laundering, cash-funnelling, investment and accounting fraud, cross-border corruption, tax evasion and sanction circumvention.

Piers is also an investigator and an adjudicator for one of the UK’s main political parties and undertakes investigations relating to complaints against party members.

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