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Alex Bailin KC
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Alex’s practice centres on financial and business crime, 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. He represents a wide range of clients: senior business executives, regulators, prosecuting authorities, multinational corporations, banks, hedge funds, private equity groups, fintechs, government departments, family offices. Sought after for his advice during the investigatory stages and for heavyweight trial or appellate work.
A wealth of financial services experience; acted in a number of complex 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 https://www.matrixlaw.co.uk/member/alex-bailin/
Career
Previously a derivatives trader in the City
Deputy High Court Judge (Administrative Court)
Recorder (Crown Court)
Clooney Justice Foundation – Advisory Board
Called 1995, Silk 2010
Memberships
Bar Human Rights Committee
Foreign Office pro bono lawyers’ panel
ALBA
Criminal Bar Association
Education
Cambridge University (Mathematics)
Sussex University (Law)
Lawyer Rankings
London Bar > Defamation and privacy
(Leading Silks)Ranked: Tier 3Alex Bailin KC –Matrix Chambers ‘Alex is a polymath – brilliant at everything he turns his hand to. He has the ability to explain complex arguments in a simple and highly persuasive manner.’
London Bar > International crime and extradition
(Leading Silks)Ranked: Tier 1Alex Bailin KC –Matrix Chambers ‘He is a superb advocate able to argue persuasively and to deal with difficult questions put by the tribunal.’
Matrix Chambers is experienced in advising corporate and individual clients on extradition exposure in international criminal cases, and the set’s barristers have been instructed in numerous cases before international courts such as the International Court of Justice and the European Court of Human Rights. Leading Jessica Jones, Alex Bailin KC represented the former CEO of Autonomy in USA v Michael Lynch, an extradition case in relation to allegations of fraud by HP concerning its $11bn purchase of the company, with Mark Summers KC opposing him for the US government. Clare Montgomery KC represented the former vice president of FIFA Jack Warner in an appeal against extradition from Trinidad to the United States, while Mark Summers KC has been instructed in Japan v Chappell, a case concerning a jewellery heist in Tokyo in 2015; a rare case of extradition from the UK to Japan in the absence of an extradition treaty between the states.
London Bar > Administrative law and human rights
(Leading Silks)Ranked: Tier 4Alex Bailin KC –Matrix Chambers ‘A hands-on leader, and a well prepared, confident and agile advocate.’
London Bar > Financial services regulation
(Leading Silks)Ranked: Tier 2Alex Bailin KC – Matrix Chambers ‘Alex has a unique skillset having been a trader before he trained as a barrister. This means that, in the complex trading investigations, he has a deep understanding of the subject matter and is well placed to probe the explanations being offered by the traders involved.’
London Bar > Public international law
(Leading Silks)Ranked: Tier 3London Bar > Business and regulatory crime (including global investigations)
(Leading Silks)Ranked: Tier 1Alex Bailin KC –Matrix Chambers ‘Alex is very strategic, thoughtful and user-friendly. He has a particular skillset in the areas of market manipulation and extradition, and is a go-to barrister for matters that overlap crime and civil litigation. ’
Matrix Chambers is an ‘excellent‘ multi-disciplinary set and regularly advises banks, financial institutions and other corporate entities as well as individuals on complex criminal charges. Alex Bailin KC and Edward Craven, representing a former employee of the company, and Clare Montgomery KC, for the company, represent defendants in the SFO’s ongoing case regarding Glencore, the company having entered guilty pleas to bribery offences in order to secure access to oil rights in several African countries.
London Bar > Crime
(Leading Silks)Ranked: Tier 3Alex Bailin KC – Matrix Chambers ‘Alex is a tactically astute, confident and persuasive advocate. He knows his cases back to front and draws on a tremendous bank of legal knowledge.’