M Ali Akram

Principal - Practising Solicitor (England & Wales) - Barrister (Lincoln's Inn)

Ali is the firm's Principal and has a wide breadth of experience in all areas of Civil, Commercial and serious Criminal Litigation advising both individuals and corporate clients. Ali is a tenacious problem solver who brings to the Practice a background of sound legal knowledge obtained through many years of legal learning and practice together with the ability to put clients at ease.

Educated at the University of Leicester, University College London, the London School of Economics and the Inns of Court School of Law. Ali has both a Bachelors degree in Law and a Masters degree in the Law of International Finance and Regulation and is called to the Bar at Lincoln's Inn and admitted as a Solicitor. Having previously worked as a consultant at big four accountancy firm, KPMG, and then worked at leading City law firm, SJ Berwin LLP, Ali gained extensive experience of managing and responding to extremely high value high profile litigation as well as providing a robust defence to serious criminal charges. Ali has worked on secondment in the Legal departments of ING Barings and Goldman Sachs International and has advised on issues such as Fraud, Money Laundering, Insider Dealing and Regulatory Compliance.

As well as civil & commercial litigation and professional negligence matters, Ali specialises in advising corporate clients in the CPU, mobile phone and carbon trading sectors whom are often facing allegations from HMRC of having actual or constructive knowledge of MTIC fraud and as a consequence have had VAT repayments withheld or are being investigated.

Ali has full rights of audience before all Courts and Tribunals and regularly appears as an advocate in the High Court and the Tax Tribunal on behalf of Appellants in high value VAT repayment appeals against HM Revenue & Customs and Duties based restoration/seizure disputes against the Director of Border Revenue.

Ali serves on the executive committee of the Society of Asian Lawyers and is a member of the London Solicitors Litigation Association.

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