187 Chambers

Gideon Cammerman KC, Head of Chambers, is a top ranked silk in fraud and regulatory cases. Gideon is currently instructed in many of the highest profile SFO and CPS fraud investigations including Patisserie Valerie, Entain (former CEO), ENRC (primary individual), Balli Steel (first defendant), Unaoil, Petrofac and Petrobras. As primarily a robust trial advocate, he has also appeared in many of the highest profile trials in recent years including the Carillion Audit trial before the Financial Reporting Council, Balli Steel fraud trial, the Alstom corruption case, LIBOR rate–fixing and the Weavering Capital Fund fraud. Gideon has prosecuted many £multi-million fraud private prosecutions, all successfully.

Gideon has a particular expertise in dealing with the crypto assets, both in resisting freezing applications and recovering crypto assets.

Gideon is also instructed by individuals, company directors and government departments to advise and act in cases outside the sphere of public litigation. These clients have included offshore jurisdictions, companies conducting internal investigations, online gambling companies and sportspeople (gambling and doping related). In recent years, Gideon has also had a particular focus on financial sanctions and the consequences to non-sanctioned individuals of sanctions regimes.

Gideon is regularly instructed to appear before the tribunals including the Financial Conduct Authority, the Financial Reporting Council, the Gambling Commission, National Anti-Doping Panel, British Horseracing Authority, he was for a number of years the senior external Case Presenter for the Association of Chartered Certified Accountants. Gideon has acted in a number of Health and Safety Act cases, in particular those relating to construction and groundworks.

Criminal Bar Association Association of Regulatory and Disciplinary Lawyers Proceeds of Crime Lawyers Association Chatham House

Awards, Qualifications & Other: Cambridge University, Fitzwilliam College – BA, 1994 (1912 Academic Scholar, Academic Prize for top mark in year 1993) Inns of Court School of Law – BVC 1995 – 1996 (Harmsworth Page 5/6 Scholarship, 1995 and Diplock Major Scholarship, 1995)

Direct Access: Gideon Cammerman KC is approved to accept instructions direct from international and UK clients on a direct access basis, without the need for a solicitor intermediary in appropriate cases.

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