Founded in 1938, Peters & Peters is the first, biggest and most experienced business crime team in London, with top-ranked civil fraud and commercial disputes capability. The firm has a major international reach and is currently representing clients in the Asia-Pacific, Africa, Americas, Middle East, Russia/CIS, Europe and UK. The firm acts for governments, corporations, financial institutions, professionals, executives and high net worth individuals.

The firm has the capacity to manage very large, complex, domestic and multi-jurisdictional disputes, with a large team of specialist litigation lawyers. Key practice areas include anti-money laundering, bribery and corruption, commercial litigation, competition litigation, corporate investigations, criminal antitrust (cartels), economic sanctions, extradition and mutual legal assistance, financial regulation, fraud (civil and criminal), insider dealing, international asset tracing, private prosecutions and trust litigation.

Historic cases include the biggest in the courts, such as Guinness, Blue Arrow, Barlow Clowes, Maxwell, the Madoff Ponzi fraud, US$6bn BTA v Ablyazov and the UK Department of Health v Reckitt Benckiser and Servier.

The firm is consistently recognised as being a leading practice in providing a multidisciplinary approach on behalf of its clients across both business crime & investigations and fraud & commercial disputes.