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Karishma Gadhia

Managing Associate, Global Investigations
London

Expertise

Karishma is a managing associate in the London Global Investigations team. Karishma has experience advising clients under investigation by the Serious Fraud Office, FCA, HMRC and CMA and other authorities in relation to fraud, bribery, money laundering breaches, market abuse, sanctions and export controls, and abuses of competition law. She has experience representing individuals on complex civil fraud and market abuse claims, and corporates on internal and external investigations into possible fraud and corruption. Karishma also provides complex AML advice to banks and other institutions on compliance with money laundering regulations. Karishma is also a member of the firm's sports investigations practice and played a pivotal role in its launch. She attended and moderated at the firm's first Sports Investigations Forum.

Prior to joining Addleshaw Goddard, Karishma worked in the Litigation & Arbitration team of an international law firm, advising both corporate and individual clients on a range of litigious matters involving civil fraud and conspiracy, fraudulent misrepresentation, shareholder and breach of warranty disputes, applications for interlocutory relief, and unfair prejudice claims. During that time, Karishma was recognised as a key lawyer by Legal 500 in 2023 for her work at her previous firm.

Before qualifying as a solicitor, Karishma worked in a major US headquartered investment bank, assessing money laundering risks and developing a working knowledge of UK money laundering regulations.

Experience

Experience includes:

Bribery and corruption / fraud investigations

Advising a multi-national company in relation to an SFO bribery and corruption and associated money laundering investigation. *
Advising a client in the real estate industry on an internal anti-bribery and corruption investigation, following a whistleblower allegation of misconduct.
Advising an international oil and gas company on an internal fraud investigation.
Advising a non-profit crypto organisation with filing criminal complaints to the police in multiple jurisdictions. *
Civil fraud and commercial disputes
Acting for Unitel S.A., an Angolan mobile telecoms company, in its £580m Commercial Court claim against Africa's former richest woman and daughter of the previous President of Angola, Isabel dos Santos.
Advising a logistics company on a multi-million civil claim of fraud and breaches of duties.
Advising two Chinese institutions in relation to a complex and long running shareholder fraud dispute regarding a well-known multiplayer online role-playing platform. *
Advising defendants in Suppipat & Ors v Narondej Ors [2023] EWHC 1988 (Com), a case recognised by The Lawyer as a Top 10 case in 2022 which involved claims of fraudulent conspiracy. *
Advised individual on a complex civil fraud and conspiracy claim spanning multiple jurisdictions and historic related proceedings.

Market abuse / contentious regulatory

Advising an individual on an investigation by the JFSC and FCA into suspected market manipulation.
Advising an international mining company on a whistleblowing investigation into suspected market abuse

AML compliance

Advising a national company on an HMRC enforcement investigation and request for information in relation to suspected breaches of AML regulations.Advising a leading bank on its AML and onboarding processes. Conducting a compliance review (including on AML, bribery, fraud, sanctions and other) for a UK electronics provider.
Advising a leading bank on its AML and onboarding processes.
Conducting a compliance review (including on AML, bribery, fraud, sanctions and other) for a UK electronics provider

* Experience prior to joining Addleshaw Goddard.

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