Cloth Fair Chambers

Cloth Fair Chambers is the pre-eminent set advising on the most complex fraud, criminal and regulatory matters for individuals and corporates.

Bridging the criminal and civil jurisdictions, our purpose is to provide the very best advice and representation in the most complex matters, especially in matters of financial misconduct where the corporate world and criminal laws intersect.

Cloth Fair is a unique chambers, deliberately boutique in size, made up of distinctive King’s Counsel and junior barristers with renowned expertise in business crime, global investigations, high-profile crime, regulatory and disciplinary matters, and where our specialist advocacy and advisory skills are required.

Pioneering in the field, our members are market leaders and regularly break new ground. Often working together, members are routinely instructed as counsel of choice for corporates and senior executives dealing with allegations such as bribery and corruption, money laundering, whistle-blowing, corporate fraud and false accounting, market abuse and insider dealing and tax fraud. Typically instructed at an early stage for strategic pre-charge strategy advice, members apply their expertise to advise both boards and individuals.

Investigations are often multi-jurisdictional and involve different prosecutorial bodies spanning the SFO, FCA, CMA, HMRC and the DOJ.