Michael Bowes QC is a barrister practising in London and is a joint head of Outer Temple Chambers.  He specialises in business crime, civil fraud, financial services and economic sanctions.  He is regarded as an expert in civil and criminal “cross-over” work and as “one of the few specialist criminal practitioners in this area” (Legal 500 2015). He is a Deputy High Court Judge (Queen’s Bench Division) and sits as a Recorder (part time judge) in the Crown Court (criminal).  He acts for the Serious Fraud Office, the Financial Conduct Authority, the Competition and Markets Authority and for corporate clients and senior managers in global investigations. He is instructed in the current LIBOR and FOREX investigations by a major financial institution and in several substantial cross-border corruption investigations. He advises companies in respect of US and EU sanctions. Michael acts for overseas regulators and is instructed in overseas cases as an expert in English law. He is registered in the Dubai International Finance Centre (DIFC) Courts. He is listed as a leading silk in the fields of Financial Services, Financial Crime (Corporates) and Financial Crime (London) in Chambers & Partners and in Banking & Finance, Business and Regulatory Crime and Fraud in the Legal 500.  He is a trustee of Transparency International UK and is a member of the Advisory Board for the Integrity, Independence and Accountability of the Judiciary Centre of Expertise Programme, which is led by Transparency International Romania.