The Financial Services Authority has announced the appointment of David Kirk as chief criminal counsel, effective in June. Kirk is currently the director of the Fraud Prosecution Service, a specialist unit of the Crown Prosecution Service.
As part of its strategy of credible deterrence, the FSA has placed great emphasis on bringing criminal actions for cases of insider dealing and market abuse. David will join the enforcement division’s specialist lawyers who focus on criminal prosecutions. He has extensive experience of this type of work, following a career as a partner of city law firms as the Director of Public Prosecutions and most recently as the founding director of the FPS.
