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Eve Giles

Partner

Eve is UK Head of Investigations & White Collar.

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.

Experience

Representative matters

Overseas corruption investigations.

Many of the SFO’s investigations into overseas corruption, including Rolls Royce, Petrofac, PWS, BAE, Guralp, Rio Tinto, Amec Foster Wheeler, Swift, G4S, Serco, SSL, Torex, De La Rue and GPT.

Cross-border regulatory investigations by authorities globally, including the SFO, FCA, DOJ, CFTC, and NYAG.

Extradition cases

Leadership Positions And Professional Affiliations

  • Consulting Editorial Board Lexis PSL Corporate Crime Lawyers
  • Corporate Crime and Corruption Committee
  • Fraud Lawyers Association
Recognition
She is a stellar lawyer in financial crime. She has superb client care skills and is a very good and detailed analyst.
Chambers 2022, Financial Crime
Eve Giles is an incredibly experienced white collar lawyer - one of the few City firm lawyers with significant first hand experience of criminal investigation and prosecution. While being outwardly calm and enormously reassuring to her clients, Eve is fastidious in ensuring that nothing is missed and no opportunity lost for ensuring the best outcome for her clients.
Legal 500 UK 2023

Qualifications

Academic

Inns of Court School of Law - Bar Vocational Course (1998-1999)
University College London - LLB Law with French Law (1994-1998)
Université Panthéon-Assas Paris II - Diploma in French Law (1996-1997) 

Languages

English
Disclaimer
A&O Shearman was formed on May 1, 2024 by the combination of Shearman & Sterling LLP and Allen & Overy LLP and their respective affiliates (the legacy firms). Any matters referred to above may include matters undertaken by one or more of the legacy firms rather than A&O Shearman.