With a criminal case, one’s life and career can so very quickly fall apart if one doesn’t get the right legal advice from the very start. With an expensive divorce, an HNW can write out the large cheques and get on with a new life. Yet since discretion and keeping clients out of the media - let alone jail - are the overriding concerns, you rarely get to hear the Tucker name bandied about in the same way that the soon-to-be ex-wives of HNWs, for example, will namedrop to each other at KX Gym about who their divorce lawyers are. One of his quirks is that he has an aluminium business card that has ‘Get Out of Jail’ printed on it, with emergency numbers. During the course of our one-hour meeting at one of London’s most exclusive private members’ clubs, several members waved at him - one even came up and hugged him. Tucker’s team includes Franklin Sinclair, former president of the National Criminal Law Association, Jim Smith, former London Criminal Law Society president, Phil Smith, the Rausings’ lawyer, or Richard Egan, who acts in News International cases.Ī considerable number of very wealthy and successful individuals owe a great deal to Tucker and his team of lawyers. Clients are happy to discreetly and convivially talk to him, perhaps over lunch or a cigar, about ‘someone else’s problem’, but one needs a whole team for the full fight. Tucker explains that it is most certainly not all about him. Through their regular dealings with the FSA, SFO and CPS, Tuckers are taken seriously by investigators, prosecutors and officers alike. His firm, Tuckers, is one of the biggest specialised criminal law practices in the UK, with offices in Birmingham, London and Manchester. The scene in the recent high-finance movie Arbitrage in which a financier and philanthropist (Richard Gere) ’fesses up to his lawyer - speaking on behalf of a ‘friend’ - on a bench in Central Park that he was driving the car that accidentally killed his mistress is routine for a lawyer like Tucker. His clients include everyone from the Rausings (he represented the late Eva when she was busted taking drugs into the American embassy) to football stars, bankers and hedgies. When it comes to representing HNWs, Barry Tucker is the first name that ought to leap to lips.
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