Max Baines

Max is ranked as a leading junior in financial crime, business and regulatory crime (including global investigations) and sport.

A specialist in serious Crime and Fraud, both prosecuting and defending, Max has been instructed in some of the most complex and high-profile cases in recent years including LIBOR and Forex. Over the last decade Max has appeared in cases ranging across the criminal spectrum, including homicide, organised crime, drug conspiracies and serious violence. He also has experience in private prosecutions.

Max is a member of the SFO’s A panel and is a CPS Panel Advocate (Grade 4). He is also a Grade 4 CPS Specialist Panel Advocate for both Fraud and Serious Crime, and a Grade 3 member of the Terrorism panel.

Max is also a leading practitioner in the sports arena. He is regularly instructed to represent the Football Association in matters of professional discipline and has appeared on behalf of UK Athletics and the British Horseracing Authority. He is an advisor to UK Anti-Doping and has undertaken work for the Rugby Football Union and Rugby Football League. Max additionally represents athletes in disciplinary proceedings across a range of sports.

BA Hons Classics, University of Oxford