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Provided by Eve Giles
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Eve has over two decades of experience advising on high profile criminal and regulatory investigations and other corporate crime issues. She has a broad range of expertise, advising on cases involving international and national corruption, tax evasion, antitrust, cartels, money laundering, fraud, insider dealing, market abuse, misleading the market and misconduct in a public office and misconduct in the work place (including #me too allegations).
Eve acts for both individuals and corporations across a broad range of sectors including financial services, mining, energy, infrastructure, telecommunications, life sciences, defence, retail, transport, aerospace, commodities, construction and engineering. She is very experienced in acting for senior individuals in high profile investigations, including executive and non-executive directors, GCs and compliance team members, including MLROs. She is also an experienced criminal trial litigator (securing wins in the LIBOR, Operation Elveden, Torex and and BA/Virgin price fixing trials) and has defended a number of cases at trial against the UK SFO, FCA, CPS and the CMA.
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Eve Giles of A&O Shearman regularly works with senior individuals facing a range of criminal investigations into bribery, corruption and money laundering. She also advises on securities fraud and insider dealing, with complementary strength in extradition matters.
Eve Giles represents large corporations in a full range of financial crime matters. She acts on internal investigations into corrupt payments and self-reporting measures, as well as advising on HMRC investigations into tax evasion.
Eve Giles specialises in representing individual clients in regulatory enforcement actions. She is particularly expert in matters with a criminal element, such as money-laundering investigations.
Strengths
Provided by Chambers
"She has the combination of being a through-and-through criminal defence lawyer but she's also very commercial."
"She gives good, clear advice and is one of the best white-collar crime lawyers looking after corporates in the market at the moment."
"She's thoughtful, good to work with, careful and experienced."
"Eve Giles is first-rate. She is strong in regulatory investigations, both in relation to the FCA and in criminal investigations."
"Eve is completely committed to her client's interests, is clever and has good judgement."
"Eve is just brilliant. She's steely and so clever."
"She has the combination of being a through-and-through criminal defence lawyer but she's also very commercial."
"She gives good, clear advice and is one of the best white-collar crime lawyers looking after corporates in the market at the moment."
"She's thoughtful, good to work with, careful and experienced."
"Eve Giles is first-rate. She is strong in regulatory investigations, both in relation to the FCA and in criminal investigations."
"Eve is completely committed to her client's interests, is clever and has good judgement."
"Eve is just brilliant. She's steely and so clever."
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