LAWYER PROFILE
Eve Giles

Eve Giles

UK 2026

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Ranked in 2 practice areas

About

Provided by A&O Shearman

Practice Areas

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.

Chambers Review

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Chambers Guide to the Legal Profession

Corporate Crime & Investigations - London (Firms)

Band 1
Band 1

Individual Editorial

Eve Giles represents large corporations in a full range of financial crime matters. She acts on internal investigations into corrupt payments and self-reporting measures, as well as advising on HMRC investigations into tax evasion.

Financial Crime: Individuals - London (Firms)

Band 2
Band 2

Individual Editorial

Eve Giles of A&O Shearman regularly works with senior individuals facing a range of criminal investigations into bribery, corruption and money laundering. She also advises on securities fraud and insider dealing, with complementary strength in extradition matters.

Strengths

Provided by Chambers

  • I think she's fantastic. She is one of the best of her generation for corporate crime matters.

    Corporate Crime & InvestigationsChambers Guide to the Legal Profession
  • Eve is an outstandingly conscientious lawyer. She has become a real power in white-collar and money-laundering law and is very sure-footed and an exceptionally talented lawyer.

    Corporate Crime & InvestigationsChambers Guide to the Legal Profession
  • She really has an excellent feel for the criminal and corporate sides.

    Corporate Crime & InvestigationsChambers Guide to the Legal Profession
  • She is an exceptionally talented lawyer.

    Financial Crime: IndividualsChambers Guide to the Legal Profession
  • Eve has an unusual emotional intelligence; she gets the psychology of a client and prosecutor. She never takes a bad point and pitches her defence at the right level.

    Financial Crime: IndividualsChambers Guide to the Legal Profession

Ranked Individuals at A&O Shearman (143)

London (Firms)

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