Tina Lakhani

Tina represents corporates and individuals through challenging times and is known for her expert hand together with her human touch which her clients find so appealing and reassuring. Tina always aims to extricate clients from investigations as quickly as possible. Highly skilled in dealing with both interviews under caution and compelled interviews eg at the FCA, Tina often achieves outcomes which result in investigations being discontinued at an early stage.

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​Tina has been involved in defending complex FCA civil, criminal and regulatory cases for senior executives and firms. She has worked on numerous insider dealing cases including the first cross jurisdiction prosecution of insider dealing by the FCA. She has also navigated the intricacies of a £52m confiscation order under POCA which included a Mutual Legal Assistance request and attended a court in Geneva to question a witness.

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Tina’s regulatory practice includes frequent oral representations on behalf of professionals at Interim Order Committee hearings, drafting complex, robust letters of representations at early stages of proceedings to be placed before case examiners, preparing and representing professionals at fitness to practice hearings. She has written articles for the British Dental Association and was on the panel for the BDA.

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 High profile FCA cases include LIBOR, insider dealing cases including Operation Tabernula, Operation Saturn. Tina has also been involved in high profile SFO investigations including  into Rolls-Royce. 

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Tina has spoken at, and provided SMCR training to, organisations such as the Insurance Insitute of London. Feedback “Expert, clarity and engagement were key strengths; Insightful seminar; Engaging discussions and presentation style - very informative but explained clearly; Very useful output in terms of slides and how to implement SMCR”.

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Tina is keen on promoting work life balance for working parents and set up a D&I focus group for families at her previous large national firm.

​Prior to joining Constantine Law, Tina was in the Regulatory & Criminal Investigations Group in a large national law firm.​

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Tina qualified as a solicitor in 2007 and is ranked in the Legal 500 for corporate crime services.

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Cases include:

• Advising an individual in relation to algorithmic trading and FCA regulations

• Advising and defending an individual facing fraud and money laundering charges by the SFO including a £52m confiscation order

• Successfully defending an individual facing prosecution by the HMRC in relation to VAT fraud.

• Representing a corporate under investigation by the FCA in relation to alleged breaches of FSMA in relation to unregulated promotions.

• Advising a corporate based in Cape Verde regarding an FCA investigation in relation to collective investment schemes.

• Representing an individual in a high profile fraud charges and cross jurisdictional bribery investigations regarding ‘bomb detectors’.

• Advising a corporate based in Gibraltar regarding cash forfeiture and successfully retrieving monies back for the client totalling half a million pounds.

• Advising senior executives from a global, reputable British company at section 2 interviews at the SFO in relation to allegations of Bribery.

• Providing regulatory advice to client banks.​