The Financial Services Authority (FSA) has this week announced the appointment of David Kirk as Chief Criminal Counsel. David is currently the Director of the Fraud Prosecution Service (FPS), 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 work following a career as a partner of city law firms, at the Director of Public Prosecutions and most recently as the founding director of the FPS.