Our Team


Marcus Rickard

Barrister-at-Law, Called by the Inner Temple 2000

Member of the Criminal Bar Association and South Eastern Circuit

Marcus is a highly experienced barrister and specialist advocate with over 15 years’ experience dealing with criminal and regulatory law, as well experience in criminal/civil investigations. Marcus is currently focusing on appellate work and investigative / advisory work in the regulated markets helping distressed clients that need an experienced all-round advocate to help them navigate through their respective crisis with regulators.

As a senior member of Red Lion Chambers, his varied work-load has included cases at the highest-level representing clients at the Old Bailey, all areas of business crime and even Tax Tribunal work fighting HRMC (which he won). He is on the prosecution lists for the CPS and its Fraud Panel. He also has experience with cases against the Environment Agency and HMRC handling sensitive negotiations and interviews pre-charge, as well as cases that proceed to full litigation. Marcus started out as part of a regulatory team specialising in tax investigations and is a specialist on legal privilege.

Unusually, for a lawyer, Marcus also has significant hands-on commercial experience of building a cutting-edge med-tech business that has pioneered innovative tech solutions within the UK’s e-procurement space. This has given him experience as a data controller, carrying out data impact assessments, reviewing commercial contracts, SaaS contracts, SLAs and MSAs – all for GDPR compliance. In a Health Tec business this has meant that he has been designing the cloud environment for handling “sensitive data” – so he has had to ensure that he is at the forefront of thinkers when it comes to GDPR whilst giving due regard to the underlying UK legislation and guidance from the relevant professional bodies.

Marcus gives legal advice which always has a practical and proportionate eye on the commercial needs of the underlying business in question.

“Businesses need solutions to the legal framework arising from the regulations such as GDPR, but they also benefit most when advised on how to turn their efforts to be compliant to a competitive advantage”

All of this has given Marcus an unrivalled perspective to advise on regulatory areas.

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Stewart Lloyd-Jones

Formerly Chief Executive for the Wholesale Market Brokers’ Association, an independent industry body which represents the inter-dealer broker community.

Stewart has spent over 30 years working within the wholesale financial markets. He spent approximately half of this time as a trader for investment banks, including many as Head Trader. He has devoted a similar amount of time to the buy side, working within the asset management and hedge fund industries.

Other firms that Stewart has worked for include Swiss Bank Corporation/UBS, Lombard Odier & Cie and Olea Capital Partners.

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Jonathan Hazell

Jonathan is a highly experienced finance professional with a particular interest in FX spot and derivatives markets. He began his career in the FX Proprietary Trading group at BZW/Barclays Capital.  Having subsequently spent time on the London spot desk, Jonathan relocated to Singapore, where he worked as an Asian Markets Strategist, and then to Tokyo, where he spent a number of years in FICC Sales, covering Hedge Funds, CTAs, corporates and real-money accounts.

Returning to London, Jonathan continued his career in Hedge Fund/Leveraged Sales, developing a high literacy in derivatives. He has worked in the Leveraged Sales teams at Barclays/BZW, Credit Suisse First Boston, Citigroup, ABN Amro and Goldman Sachs.

Jonathan has additionally served as CFO and Compliance Officer at a financial advisory/hedge fund start-up.

Recently, Jonathan has undertaken consulting work related to FX market investigations.

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Dean Armstrong KC

Barrister-at-Law, Called by Gray’s Inn 1985

Dean is a barrister of more than 30 years standing and is recognised as an expert in the field of cyber security and data management

In 2014, in recognition of his abilities, he was appointed Queen’s Counsel (now King’s Counsel). 

He is the co-author of a textbook on Cyber law which is due to be published at the end of 2016 and which is the first of its kind in the field. 

Dean has complemented his outstanding career as an advocate with widely based experience in commerce and industry. Over the years, Dean has advised many City institutions and international blue-chip companies and was responsible for the implementation of the working practices required to comply with the Financial Services Act for a major City financial body. 

Due to his acknowledged expertise, Dean is often asked to deliver lectures on the subject to lawyers and commercial bodies. He has also had dealings with the Law Commission over prospective new legislation in data management. 

His approachable style and ability to spot commercial advantage makes him a very sought after expert in this fast growing field.


Louise Marshall

Louise has been a lawyer for over 28 years, first in a London magic circle firm and then as a General Counsel of international, listed businesses.  In 2017 she trained for and gained the CIPP/E accreditation as a fully qualified privacy and GDPR specialist.  She works with businesses of all sizes to assist with or run their GDPR programmes.  She is outsourced DPO for a number of clients, including the Borough Market Trust.  She has spoken and written extensively about the GDPR, most recently to the Institute of Chartered Accountants, the Law Society and the Institute of Directors.