Simon Baker KC
UK Bar Guide 2025
Band 3 : Financial Crime
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About
Provided by Simon Baker KC
Practice Areas
Simon primarily specialises in cases of complex business and regulatory fraud, market abuse, bribery & corruption, tax fraud and money laundering, as well as in serious criminal conspiracies (including murder and serious drugs cases).
Acting for both individual and corporate clients, he has been instructed in some of the highest profile cases in the UK. Recent high-profile cases include: The Post Office Horizon Appeals (representing the Post Office in relation to the appeals by sub-postmasters and review of convictions based on evidence from the Post Office’s Horizon computer system); R v Dominic Chappell (defending in relation to tax fraud allegations arising out of the acquisition of BHS from Sir Phillip Green); LIBOR (representing the head of the Tullet Prebon Yen OBS desk charged with conspiring to rig LIBOR rates); Operation Hornet (allegations of corruption and fraud valued in excess of £250m arising out of the HBoS impaired asset division); iSOFT (representing the CEO of a FTSE250 business charged with market manipulation); Operation Picasso (carbon credit "boiler room" fraud); iSpoof (representing the founder of the 'spoofing' website responsible for £43m of fraud in the UK alone and over £100 million worldwide); and R v M, C & T [2017] UKSC 58 (the leading authority on criminal liability for "grey market" trading).
His full profile can be seen at http://www.2bedfordrow.co.uk/barrister/simon-baker.
Career
Called 1998
Recorder 2019
KC 2021
MA (Oxon) (St Annes, College, Oxford)
Bencher of the Honourable Society of the Inner Temple
Professional Memberships
Criminal Bar Association
Bar Council Information Technology Panel
Fraud Lawyers Association
Chambers Review
UK Bar
An accomplished barrister with experience of regulatory and financial crime work, Simon Baker KC is proficient in the full spectrum of fraud cases. He is acclaimed for his impressive skill in mastering the facts of document-heavy cases. Baker acts on highly complex matters for financial services clients, with his cases often including both civil and criminal elements. He offers particular expertise in cases concerning money laundering and bribery.
Strengths
Provided by Chambers
"He is so knowledgeable and, if he doesn't know something, by the end of the day he will have become an expert on it. His advocacy is incredible and he knows the case inside out."
"Simon is very bright. His factual analysis and judgement are excellent and he has an excellent manner with the court. He's a formidable opponent."
"He is able to cut right to the chase in terms of drafting, advocacy and narrow issues, to make sure everyone is on the same page."
"He is so knowledgeable and, if he doesn't know something, by the end of the day he will have become an expert on it. His advocacy is incredible and he knows the case inside out."
"Simon is very bright. His factual analysis and judgement are excellent and he has an excellent manner with the court. He's a formidable opponent."
"He is able to cut right to the chase in terms of drafting, advocacy and narrow issues, to make sure everyone is on the same page."
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