THE FIRM Bark & Co is one of the UK’s leading fraud and business crime firms. The firm’s highly-skilled lawyers are committed to providing expert advice at every stage of proceedings. The firm’s principal aims are to avoid expensive litigation whenever possible and to fight tenaciously to protect its clients’ interests. Established in 1996 by Giles Bark-Jones, Bark & Co has developed into one of the Country’s most progressive and successful fraud firms. A founder member of the Specialist Fraud Panel, the firm specialises in commercial and criminal fraud as well as serious crime, business and tax regulation, tax investigations and corporate obligations associated with health and safety enforcement. The firm acts for private individuals as well as national and international companies. It has also established itself as a leader in the field of cash and asset recovery in both criminal and civil courts.

1. London, United Kingdom

2.  DX 447 London
Chancery Lane
 Email:
 Bridewell Court, office@barkco.com
 14 New Bridge Street,  Website:
 London, www.barkco.com
 Greater London  Senior Partner: Giles
 United Kingdom Bark-Jones
 EC4V 6AG  Partners: 1
 Tel (020) 7353 1990  Assistants: 29
 Fax (020) 7353 1880  Other fee-earners: 19

3.  Bark & Co is one of the UK’s  A founder member of the
leading fraud and business Specialist Fraud Panel, the
crime firms. The firm’s firm specialises in
highly-skilled lawyers are commercial and criminal
committed to providing fraud as well as serious
expert advice at every stage crime, business and tax
of proceedings. The firm’s regulation, tax investigations
principal aims are to avoid and corporate obligations
expensive litigation associated with health and
whenever possible and to safety enforcement. The firm
fight tenaciously to protect acts for private individuals
its clients’ interests. as well as national and
Established in 1996 by Giles international companies. It
Bark-Jones, Bark & Co has has also established itself as
developed into one of the a leader in the field of cash
Country’s most progressive and asset recovery in both
and successful fraud firms. criminal and civil courts.

4.  Bark & Co prides itself on
the individual expertise of
its lawyers, the collective
strength of its specialist
teams and their skill in
tailoring advice to match
each client’s individual
circumstances. Bark &
Co’s rigorous
commitment to quality of
advice and personalised
service has lead to
significant work through
referrals by both clients
and other leading law
firms.

5.  Bark & Co handles a  the Financial Services
wide range of high- Authority (FSA), the
profile white-collar Special Compliance
crime and fraud Office of the Inland
cases, including Revenue, the Crown
prosecutions and Prosecution Service
investigations brought (CPS), Trading
by the Serious Standards and other
Organised Crime prosecuting bodies.
Agency (SOCA), HM
Revenue &
Customs, the Serious
Fraud Office (SFO)

6.  Bark & Co became a member  It has acknowledged experts
of the Serious Fraud Panel at in VAT and duties tribunal
its inception and is a work, tax regulation, defence
member of the Very High of duty
Costs Cases panel (VHCC) evasion, moneylaundering
qualified to deal with the and carousel fraud, as well
most complex of criminal as mortgage
matters.Acknowledged as fraud, investment
one of the leaders in the field fraud, corruption, pension
of corporate and commercial fund fraud, telecoms
fraud, the firm has defended fraud, theft, fraudulent
against many of the major trading by company
prosecutions brought by the directors and Internet fraud.
SFO and other government Dedicated teams also deal
agencies. with confiscation and post-
and pre-charge restraint
proceedings.

7.  Recent important cases include  Bark & Co also represents a
instructions in a high profile Managing Director of a
and politically sensitive FSA prominent international bank
prosecution of directors (iSoft) involved in alleged insider
in relation to the new NHS IT trading; this is part of an
system and the defence of the unprecedented and high profile
Directors of a Carbon Trading crackdown on fraud by the FSA
company in an £85m fraud. and SOCA; Bark & Co are
Other cases include the defence defending in another FSA
of two Directors of a specialist prosecution of an alleged 11-
division of Vantis PLC in a handed insider dealing fraud
highly publicised case of alleged involving two prominent
tax relief fraud. investment banks and also
defended in R v Law, Roberts &
Harvey, another high profile
SFO prosecution concerning
fraudulent trading at a
subsidiary of Alfred McAlpine
PLC.

8.  Bark & Co continues to act  The firm's wide ranging
in high-profile criminal portfolio of cases includes
trials, including cases of the ongoing high-profile
murder, money case of a private
laundering, drugs investigator murdered
importations, armed over 22 years ago in a
robbery and people- London pub car park. A
smuggling. The firm total of five separate
focuses on high-end work, investigations have been
often involving crime launched, involving tens
across international of thousands of hours of
boundaries and police work and utilising
jurisdictions. long-term intrusive
undercover surveillance.

9.  Bark & Co also advise
private individuals and
national and For more
international companies information, please see
facing investigation or our website.
criminal proceedings as
a result of beaches of
the Health and Safety Areas of Practice:
Act, taking cases from White-Collar Crime/Fraud: 85%
pre-charge interviews General Crime: 15%
through to trial.