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Hannah is a partner with significant expertise in business crime. She advises on serious fraud, corruption, private prosecutions, internal investigations, global investigations and FCA regulatory issues (civil and criminal). Hannah was called to the Bar in 2001 and practised at the independent bar for five years. In 2006, she became a Prosecutor at the Serious Fraud Office before joining the Financial Services Authority’s (now Financial Conduct Authority) wholesale enforcement division. She joined Peters & Peters in 2010 and became a partner in 2014. Many of Hannah’s cases involve complex financial transactions and/or multi-jurisdictional issues and she has worked closely with a number of overseas agencies including US Department of Justice. Her clients include global financial institutions, hedge funds and multinational corporate entities as well as executives and individuals. Hannah has substantial experience of bringing private prosecutions (both prosecuting and defending), most recently acting for the complainant in R v Somaia. She advises firms and individuals on a range of FCA regulatory matters. These have included insider dealing, market abuse, unauthorised trading, financial promotions, systems and controls breaches and investigations into the conduct of regulated individuals. Hannah has conducted internal investigations for corporate entities as well as providing advice to multinationals wishing to assess the adequacy of their policies and procedures relating to financial crime, for example anti-bribery and corruption or economic sanctions. Hannah is ranked as a Leading Lawyer by Legal 500, she is described as a key figure who is “dauntless in the face of regulators” and “combines exceptional knowledge of the law with acute tactical awareness.”