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About
Provided by Alex Bailin KC
Practice Areas
Alex’s practice centres on financial and business crime, financial services, all aspects of criminal law, and extradition. His work also involves public law, human rights, media law and public international law.
Instructed in a wide variety of business crime cases: corporate manslaughter, corruption, cartels, frauds of all kinds, insider dealing. Instructed in many major SFO cases. A wide range of clients: CEOs, senior business executives, multinational corporations, banks, hedge funds, private equity groups, fintechs, family offices. Sought after for the investigatory stages and for heavyweight trial or appellate work.
A wealth of financial services experience; acted in a number of major regulatory investigations by the FCA and PRA before the RDC, EDMC and Upper Tribunal.
Acted in a number of high profile extradition cases, particularly from the US.
Commercial work often has a criminal aspect to it e.g. Commercial Court litigation with parallel criminal proceedings.
General criminal work ranges from murder and gross negligence manslaughter to interception of communications and official secrets.
See further information here: https://www.matrixlaw.co.uk/member/alex-bailin/
Career
Previously a derivatives trader in the City
Cambridge University (Mathematics); Sussex University (Law)
Deputy High Court Judge (Administrative Court)
Recorder (Crown Court)
Clooney Justice Foundation – Advisory Board
Called 1995, Silk 2010