Gareth Minty is a Partner in the Fraud Group and specialises in advising clients who have been the victim of crime and who are seeking redress, whether directly in the form of a private prosecution or as a result of criminal proceedings brought by the state authorities.
Gareth also advises corporate clients on wider criminal enforcement and deterrence strategies, as well as working in concert with the firm's Cyber Risk and Complex Investigations team and civil litigators to deliver comprehensive outcomes for clients.
Since joining Mishcon de Reya, Gareth has drawn on his experience as a senior lawyer in the Central Fraud Division of the Crown Prosecution Service to successfully conduct the then-largest private prosecution brought to date involving a complex €100m fraud, which resulted in a sentence of 8 years’ imprisonment.
Gareth’s private prosecution experience also extends to:
- acting on behalf of companies involved in the Creative Industries in relation to fraud against rights holders' intellectual property;
- internal accounting frauds involving substantial breaches of trust;
- proceedings for international blackmail in a corporate context;
- cases involving data theft, harassment and unlawful surveillance;
- investigations arising from sensitive domestic abuse allegations;
- matters involving criminal allegations arising out of insolvencies and offences against company directors; and
- perjury, perverting the course of justice and other offences against the proper administration of justice.
Gareth is also Chair of the Private Prosecutors' Association and is regularly recognised in the legal directories for his work on private prosecutions, including in Chambers & Partners, where he is ranked in Band 1, and in Legal 500, where is regarded as a Leading Individual.