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IBB Law‘s criminal defence practice is backed up by the firm’s commercial department, enabling the solicitors to offer seamless advice in complex business and financial crime work, from issues at the police station to the Court of Appeal. The team is led by Joanne Gibbons, Eddie Tang and John Milner in Uxbridge. Gibbons specialises in representing youths, while Tang is reputed for his ’longstanding experience’ in serious and complex cases involving murder, kidnapping, blackmail, and large-scale drug crimes, and Milner is praised by clients as ‘one of the very best white-collar solicitors out there’. Anna Ford has joined Bindmans LLP.

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Testimonials

Collated independently by Legal 500 research team.

  • ‘Every member of the team displays a real knowledge of their cases and an appetite for hard work. They think creatively yet are pragmatic and sensible in their advice.’
  • ‘Eddie Tang has longstanding experience and has a great way with clients. He is really committed to achieving the best outcome for them.’
  • ‘Excellent firm with fantastic representation of their clients.’
  • ‘John Milner is a world-class player in a championship team. He is unsurpassed in experience, industrious and with one of the keenest senses of strategy in the market. He is one of the very best white-collar solicitors out there.’
  • ‘Committed and highly regarded criminal firm with a real commitment to fighting for clients.’
  • ‘IBB is a firm, which is able to offer good quality advice for large, data heavy cases both privately and legally aided.’
  • ‘Kam Varaitch is a fantastic solicitor and is always available to discuss cases. He works very hard to ensure clients are always kept up to date with their cases and is responsive to any requests.’

Work highlights

  • Advised and represented a client charged with murder and attempted murder.
  • Advised and represented a client charged with conspiracy to supply 70kg of heroin, possession of firearms and ammunition.

Lawyers

Leading individuals

John Milner

IBB Law

John specialises in acting for individuals under investigation for financial crime. He represented a Barclay’s trader in the recent LIBOR trial; a trader in the $200m fraud on Russian bank, Otkritie, and the first defendant in a £160m SFO fraud on banks by an asset finance company. Current instructions include the SFO investigations into EURIBOR, Tesco, Serco, The Balli Group and FH Bertling, and the FCA prosecution of a former UBS compliance officer for insider dealing.

Eddie Tang

IBB Law

Eddie Tang has a wide range of experience in criminal defence work. He joined the firm in 2007 as a senior solicitor and was promoted to Partner in 2011. His cases take him the length and breadth of the UK. As well as a high number of cases in West London, he has also represented clients in Bristol, Manchester, Leeds, Southampton and Nottingham.

Practice head

The lawyer(s) leading their teams.

Joanne Gibbons, Eddie Tang, John Milner

Other key lawyers

Kam Varaitch

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