Eoin O'Shea

Work Highlights

Advising on a wide range of disputes and other contentious inquiries, usually relating to allegations of bribery, other financial crime and associated civil liabilities. Planning and executing very large investigations involving hundreds of witnesses and multiple-terabytes of data. Regular dealings with SFO, NCA, FCA, UK territorial police and international law-enforcement agencies around the world. As you would expect, most matters are highly confidential.

Advised the Law Society of England & Wales in Serious Fraud Office v ENRC [2018] EWCA 2006, a leading case on the law of privilege (Global Investigations Review “Most Important Case of the Year”, 2018)

Acting for Solo Capital Partners and former directors in >$2 billion criminal tax-fraud investigation and linked civil dispute in English High Court, also involving authorities of Denmark, Belgium, Germany, USA, Monaco, “one of the largest and most complex pieces of litigation to be heard in the Commercial Court”

Acting in significant, novel Account Freezing Order / Forfeiture proceedings under POCA s.303Z provisions.

Advised leading accountancy firm re. collapse of Rangers FC (criminal aspects).

Advised FTSE 100 company re money-laundering investigation.

Advising CEOs and others in relation to major corruption investigations.

Advising GSK in SmithKlineBeecham plc v Avery & Others [2009] EWHC 1488, leading cases on corporate representation in harassment cases, permanent statutory injunctions; Advising Oxford University in Oxford University v Broughton & Others [2008] EWHC 75, advising AstraZeneca and others re public order and harassment (AstraZeneca UK v Mathai [2014] EWHC 2774).

Practice Areas

Eoin helps clients to deal decisively with high-risk issues. He advises on government and regulatory investigations, corporate criminal risks, fraud and related disputes and professional ethics. Eoin frequently deals with prosecuting and investigating authorities, advising on risk-management, legal privilege, conducting complex investigations and litigation, both criminal and civil. Eoin is especially interested in the nexus between public and private-law concepts in corporate and criminal law.

Areas of particular interest are financial crime, anti-corruption, legal privilege, fraud, money-laundering, sanctions, jurisdiction, data-law, regulatory law, professional ethics, corporate governance, public law and judicial review, competition law and international law.

Eoin is a member and former Chair of the City of London Law Society Corporate Crime and Corruption Committee, and has written and spoken widely on legal issues within his areas of interest. He is the author of book The Bribery Act 2010: A Practical Guide.

Professional Memberships

City of London Law Society Corporate Crime and Corruption Committee – Member (former Chair)

Education