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Eoin O’ Shea
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Work Department
Dispute resolution.
Position
Leading figure in economic crime, corporate crime, fraud and corruption disputes and investigations. Also wide commercial litigation experience, including major international arbitration; European and international law.
Career
Trained Inner Temple, 20 Essex Street; qualified 1996; six years at Commercial Bar (4 Field Court), specialised in international trade, shipping, arbitration, banking, corporate crime, professional indemnity, various reported cases in High Court and Court of Appeal. Six years at Simmons & Simmons, specialising in international disputes, arbitration, fraud/corruption, several major investigations involving regulatory/criminal matters; partner at Lawrence Graham LLP, head of corruption group, several fraud and corruption investigations/disputes, advising many international businesses on legal compliance, regularly featured national media eg BBC, Financial Times, Sky TV, Wall St Journal. Also leading heavy litigation for major pharma companies relating to blackmail and other crime. Publications of note: ‘The Bribery Act 2010, A Practical Guide’ (Jordans 2011); ‘Liability of Corporate Bodies and ss 7,8 Bribery Act’ Gore Browne on Companies, March 2011; ‘Lords of the realm – above the law’ ‘Times’ January 09; ‘The Woolf Report: A Template for Corporate Ethics’, ‘In-House Lawyer’ July 2008; ‘Shady Dealings’, ‘New Law Journal’ February 2008; ‘Bribery, Another Chance to Get it Right’, ‘The Times Online’ December 2007; ‘UK Businesses Beware the Long Arm of US Law’, ‘The Lawyer’ August 2006; ‘NatWest Three – Why You Should Be Worried’, ‘Times’ June 2006; ‘Europe, Enforcement and the English’, ‘Legal Business’ January 2006; contributor to ‘Managing Business Risk’ (Kogan Page 2006) and ‘Countdown to 2000’ (Butterworths 1998).
Languages
French, Spanish (basic).
Member
Law Society of England and Wales; Honourable Society of The Inner Temple; Honourable Society of Kings’ Inns; Dublin Chartered Institute of Arbitrators.
Education
University of Cambridge (1994 MA Law); King’s Inns (2003 BL).
Practice Areas
Crime - corporate; Fraud; Litigation - commercial
