Legal Awards 2020

13 | SME NEWS - Legal Awards 2020 When it comes to financial crime and fraud, there’s clearly a need for an expert. The team at SKB Legal Luton are leaders in the field, tackling a range of legal issues with an emphasis on client focus and quality legal advice. Needless to say, their success in SME’s Legal Awards has encouraged us to take a closer look at this impressive firm. SKB Legal have made their name by ensuring that there isn’t a problem they can’t solve. With immense skill and expertise, gathered through years of tireless work and research, clients can be assured of the best possible representation at the minimum possible risk. Led by Susanta Banerjee, the team has been able to apply a forward-thinking approach to criminal defence, regulatory, business crime and motoring law that always gets results. Mr Banerjee started his training in the early 2000s, at a firm of BAME lawyers in the heart of London. This placed him in good stead to not only learn about a wide variety of cases, but to see how they were applied. Just a stone’s throw away from the Old Bailey and Royal Courts of Justice, he was able to access a unique perspective on criminal courts across London and the South East at large. In a career that spans almost two decades, he has had the pleasure of helping to research ‘Miscarriage of Justice’ cases with particular emphasis on one which involved a murder, assisting in a matter that lead to a review before the Privy Council of the House of Lords with respect to Insolvency Proceedings and handling several explosive substances cases, as well as cases involving novel and quite arcane points of law. With such a strong background, it’s no surprise that many other top-quality lawyers work with Mr Banerjee at SKB Legal. Stephen Bunker runs a dedicated criminal enquiry and investigations hub which has achieved incredible success in no small part thanks to the wealth of experience he has accumulated over the years. He has advised on almost every sort of criminal and regulatory investigation nationwide, giving clients who turn to the firm an impressive basis on which to build a case. Sejal Karavadra, however, started her career at the Home Office, only turning to private practice in 2006. With considerable expertise in the world Best Financial Crime & Fraud Specialists - London SKB Legal Luton of immigration, she has proven a leading light in the business. Now with fifteen exceptional years of extensive experience, just some of her career highpoints have included reuniting families separated due to complex immigration laws, helping television channels to obtain sponsorship licences, assisting well-known companies in employing migrant workers and delivering compliance seminars to businesses to ensure they are working to the correct standards. The team are capable of helping in a wide variety of ways, drawing on all of their different skills to best serve the case in hand. Needless to say, everything is completed to a uniformly high standard. Depending on the needs of a client, the team can be office-based or on the move, offering transparent and fixed fees in order to ensure no surprises at the end of the process. With the team covering such quickly evolving laws, this sort of certainty is not found in every law firm. SKB Legal is a true inspiration, with each of its specialists proving the company to be one of the best in the business. It is no wonder, therefore, that they have won this award. It’s a clear demonstration of how they have managed to achieve such incredible success. Contact: Susanta Banerjee Web Address: www.skblegal.co.uk