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Top Criminal Fraud Defence Solicitors Specialist London & UK-wide Expert Lawyers

  • Criminal Fraud
  • FCA Investigations
  • FCA Prosecutions
  • Serious Crime
  • Drugs
  • Financial, Regulatory & Civil Fraud
  • Property Litigation
  • Civil Litigation
  • Corporate Tax
  • Extradition
  • Adverse Possession
  • Harassment
  • Public Inquiries and Inquests
  • Media & Crisis Management

Top-rated Bark & Co Solicitors are renowned as being one of the UK’s best expert & specialist criminal fraud defence firms of lawyers, based in London and with a national reach. We are  rated in the prestigious Legal Directories Legal 500 and Chambers as being a top-tier leading law firm, and we appear in The Times Best Law Firms 2020.

Having represented clients in the largest cases in the past decade, including LIBOR, Phone Hacking, Asil Nadir, Mr Adoboli alleged US$2.3bn trading loss, and successfully defending the former CEO of iSOFT Group PLC, Mr Tim Whiston, you can be certain you’re receiving the best legal advice.

Criminal Fraud Charges – from Drug Offences

Our expert leading criminal fraud lawyers also have in-depth expertise in robustly and successfully defending drug offence charges that flow from substantive criminal fraud charges, like Money Laundering. These drug offences may include Conspiracy to Supply drugs, Importation of drugs, and/or other drug-related allegations, like those that have arisen from the breaking of encrypted phones such as Encrochat by the National Crime Agency (NCA). We not only have great skill in successfully defending such charges, but we have had clients for whom we have gone further and secured the return of substantial funds previously taken by HMRC.

If you or a family member would like legal advice from one of the UK’s expert specialist criminal fraud solicitors, a nationally leading firm of top lawyers with a proven track record of successfully defending criminal fraud charges, please call 0207 153 1990 or contact us by using the form on this page.

If you need the legal services of one of the UK’s best criminal fraud defence law firms, and one with a proven track record of successfully defending individuals and companies faced with an alleged criminal fraud charge, just call us now or submit the form on this page.

The Fraud Act of 2006 [updated in 2019] includes the following offences:

  • Money Laundering
  • Boiler Room
  • HMRC and Vat Tax
  • Courier
  • LIBOR & FOREX
  • Bribery & Corruption
  • Insider Trading
  • Tax Evasion & Cheating the Revenue
  • Construction industry scheme fraud (CIS)
  • Others …
  • SFO – Serious Fraud Office Investigations
  • FCA – Financial Conduct Authority Investigations

Click this link to see some our outstanding criminal fraud defence testimonials and reviews


“Practice head Giles Bark-Jones is ‘without doubt’ one of the sharpest defence lawyers practicing today” Legal500 2017



“Bark&co is singled out by its ‘fantastic fraud work’ The firm’s … practice has gained momentum, and its lawyers bring ‘intellectual rigour, passion and years of experience to table” – Chambers & Partners 2013


“This civil and criminal litigation boutique is noted for “high-profile criminal deference work”… and has developed “the practice to the enviable position it occupies today…” – Chambers & Partners 2012


“Bark & Co is regularly involved in the larger and high-profile cases” – Legal 500, 2012


“Commentators praise the team’s commitment to high service standards, and clients highlight the consistent partner attention that the receive” – Chambers & Partners 2011


“Bark & Co has ‘become a powerhouse in the field of white-collar crime’, with practice head Giles Bark-Jones ‘one of the leading fraud lawyers of his generation’.” – Legal 500, 2011.

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    The ‘diligent’ team at Bark&co is led by the firm’s founder, Giles Bark-Jones. Bark-Jones secured an acquittal for criminal barrister Andrew Fitch-Holland in a case involving match-fixing in professional cricket. Alison Hill and Fiona Gavriel are also recommended.

    Legal500, 2016

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    “The firm Bark&co’s bespoke service offers clients unrestricted access to their lawyers at all times, which is particularly remarkable given the large amount of fraud work the group handles”- Chambers & Partners 2010
    “This ‘Highly efficient firm’ is made up of ‘very straight forward practitioners’ who attract clients in their droves, “thanks to an “innate ability to give spot-on advice” – Chambers & Partners 2009.
    “Bark & Co has a very active fraud practice” - Legal 500, 2009
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