Stan Reiz KC

Stan Reiz KC is ranked by Chambers & Partners and Legal 500 2024 as a leader in the practice areas of Fraud and General Crime. He is regularly instructed to defend in cases involving allegations of murder, manslaughter, the large-scale importation of controlled drugs, firearms, fraud and money laundering.

Mr Reiz KC represents high net worth individuals and clients who are in the public eye such as substantial companies, athletes and musicians, as well as professionals being investigated by regulatory authorities.

Mr Reiz KC’s recent cases include representing: the alleged organiser of the highly publicised murder in Liverpool of a young woman shot in her own home with a Skorpion sub-machine gun; a man acquitted of murder following a group attack in a city centre internet café; a man acquitted of the murder of a ‘gardener’ killed during a robbery of a cannabis factory; a man acquitted of the murder of a teenager following a collision between a car and two motorbikes; a company director facing a private prosecution for an alleged £80 million fraud and an interested party in confiscation proceedings associated with £20 million held in crypto currency.

Having been called to the Bar of the Cayman Islands, Mr Reiz also represented a defendant who was acquitted of murder and wounding in the Grand Court of Grand Cayman following a double stabbing at a bar in which one man was killed and another seriously wounded.