Rupert was instructed as led junior in this five-handed four-month trial being prosecuted by the FCA. The case concerns ‘wall-crossed’ placings that were said to have been facilitated by the provision of insider information from an employee at a well-known investment fund, and which information was then allegedly used to make a series of contract-for-difference trades in stocks in various international companies. The case, which is ongoing, involves challenged expert evidence concerning the public availability of information relating to, and the trading of, these securities.
