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
