Jake McQuitty leads the Investigations & Enforcement team at TLT. He has wide experience of acting for financial institutions, corporations and individuals in the UK and globally in relation to criminal and regulatory investigations, as well as conducting internal investigations on behalf of financial services clients. He also advises financial institutions on litigation and risk management issues. Jake was formerly the Head of Investigations & Enforcement for Barclays Bank for Europe and the Middle East where he oversaw a significant portfolio of global investigations and enforcement matters in both the retail and wholesale banking businesses. These included the highly-publicised cases against Barclays in respect of benchmark fixing (Gold and FX) and client custody and assets rule breaches. Jake has considerable experience of dealing with investigations by authorities in the UK, including the FCA, PRA, SFO, HMRC, LSE, the Metropolitan police and Ofgem, as well as dealing with central banks and other authorities around the world, including in Australia, Japan, Taiwan, Singapore, Hong Kong, India, the UAE, South Africa, the USA and various emerging markets. Before joining Barclays, Jake spent ten years as a lawyer in the City of London acting for financial services clients in relation to commercial court litigation, regulatory investigations and large-scale customer compensation schemes. Jake qualified as a barrister in 1998 and practised criminal and civil law at the Bar. In 2002, he was admitted as a solicitor of the Supreme Court of England & Wales and joined TLT in 2015.