Gavin Irwin
Barrister
2 Hare Court
Gavin Irwin is a specialist advocate in: business crime and financial services; and, professional conduct and discipline. He has a wealth of experience across complementary disciplines.
Gavin regularly advises individuals and businesses:
- in matters concerning fraud, money laundering, corruption and sanctions breaches (in corporate investigations and before the criminal courts)
- on risk-management issues, including: money laundering; export licensing; and, data protection
- on extradition and Interpol Red Notices
- on conduct and discipline issues in proceedings before professional regulatory authorities and at Coroner’s Inquests
At present, Gavin is:
- advising individuals in relation to ongoing SFO investigations into fraud and overseas bribery and corruption
- advising in sensitive disputes involving financial and trade sanctions for individuals and entities with business and property interests in Russia and Ukraine
- representing individuals charged with fraud, counterfeiting and money laundering before the criminal courts
- representing individuals whose assets are restrained and/or accounts frozen under new legislative powers
- representing medical professionals in discipline proceedings brought by the GMC and GDC
- representing medical professionals and entities in a number of high-profile Inquests
Sanctions and Exports Licensing experience
In the recent past, Gavin has advised:
- a UK national on Russia sanctions issues relating to the ownership and management of property in Crimea
- a UK company in criminal proceedings brought by HMRC for breaches of the Chemical Weapons Convention
- an Iranian national with business interests in the UK on sanctions and export licensing issues arising from the withdrawal of the United States from the JCPOA and the United Kingdom from the European Union
- a UK manufacturing company on export licensing issues with Turkey, arising from recent inclusions on the US Bureau of Industry and Security’s ‘Entity List’
- a UK based oil and gas services company on sanctions relating to projects in West Kurdistan / Northern Syria
- a UK based manufacturing company on export licensing issues arising from end-user concerns for dual-use goods in UAE and Pakistan
- a UK based tech company in an Export Control Joint Unit investigation into the export of cryptographic software to Russia
- a UK based company with a global presence in the oil and gas services industry in an HMRC investigation arising from the export of high performance machine parts to Iran
In addition, Gavin represented a defendant in proceedings at the Central Criminal Court (brought under the Customs and Excise Management Act 1979) for exporting cobalt aluminate to Iran via the Czech Republic. The security and intelligence services are concerned that CoAl may be the critical ingredient in a ‘suitcase dirty bomb’ – a small, portable, nuclear device.
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