Simon Baker KC

Ranked in 1 Practice Areas

Band 3

Financial Crime

London (Bar)

11 Years Ranked

Ranked in Guides

High Net Worth 2024

About

Provided by Simon Baker KC

UK Bar

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

Provided by Chambers

UK-Bar

Financial Crime - London (Bar)

Band 3

Individual Editorial

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.

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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.