Giles Bedloe specialises in fraud and financial crime, commercial dispute resolution and business regulation.

Giles is an accomplished advocate, equally at home before the Court of Appeal as in front of a jury. He regularly appears in the High Court, in Chancery and Queen’s Bench matters, and before a variety of tribunals. Giles is also a versatile advisor, able to provide a range of solutions tailored to the specific needs of his clients.

Giles has extensive expertise in restraint, confiscation and asset forfeiture having appeared in the Court of Appeal authority of McDowell and having represented intervening parties in the substantial confiscation proceedings arising out of Operation Amazon and in the seminal matter of Ahmad & Fields.

In 2015 and 2016, he was engaged by one of the UK’s major banks as a consultant in respect of a £4 billion review of the mis-selling of derivatives, directed by the Financial Conduct Authority.

He is appointed to the CPS Specialist Fraud Panel and the Attorney General’s Panel of Specialist Regulatory Counsel.

As part of his commercial defence practice, Giles regularly advises and represents individuals before the professional and disciplinary tribunals, and businesses before their regulators. Giles has particular expertise in matters involving the pensions and financial services ombdusmen.

Giles is a qualified mediator and is adept in multiple forms of non court-based dispute resolution including arbitration.

Middle Temple Fraud Lawyers Association Association of Regulatory & Disciplinary Lawyers South Eastern Circuit Criminal Bar Association

Inns of Court School of Law (Bar Vocational Course) City University (post-graduate Diploma in Law) Oxford University – MA Hons in Classics