Eve Giles
Partner
London
Eve Giles
Partner
London
Contact details
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 #MeToo 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.
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)
Related articles
Publications: 23 January 2024
Impact of corporate criminal liability reforms on private equity firms
The new ‘failure to prevent fraud’ offence and new ‘senior manager’ attribution test for corporate criminal liability contained in the Economic Crime and Corporate Transparency Act 2023 are relevant…
Publications: 10 January 2024
How UK law reforms and enforcement trends affect corporate crime risk in 2024
Blog Post: 05 December 2023
UK Criminal Justice Bill proposes further reforms to the identification doctrine
Experience highlights
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.
Investigations by authorities globally, including the SFO, FCA, DOJ, CFTC, and NYAG.
Requests from jurisdictions including the US, Europe, South Africa and New Zealand.
Corporate entities, financial institutions and senior individuals on a range of issues relating to employee misconduct.
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)
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 a standout partner. She has strength in depth, is enormously experienced, hardworking, thoughtful and a delight to work with.
Legal 500 2021, Regulatory Investigations and Corporate Crime
She is extraordinarily intelligent and very experienced
Chambers 2022, Financial Crime
Global Elite Thought Leader
Who’s Who Legal 2021, Investigations and Business Crime Defence
