Max Mills

Max Mills represents individuals, companies and government departments in a multi-disciplinary practice encompassing Business Crime and Financial Services, Inquests and Public Inquiries, Criminal Regulatory and Professional Discipline.

He is uniquely placed to act in complex cases on the cusp of criminal, regulatory and public law, and is often instructed to provide strategic advice in the early stages of proceedings in both the criminal and civil jurisdictions. In the last year, he has been instructed in large-scale investigations conducted by the Bank of England, the Financial Conduct Authority, the Serious Fraud Office and the Insolvency Service.

Max has represented bereaved families, medical professionals and NHS Trusts in Article 2 inquests before juries, and in 2021 he was part of the counsel team for the Home Office and the Ministry of Justice in the inquests into the deaths arising out of the terrorist attack at Fishmongers’ Hall.

Before coming to the Bar, Max qualified as a solicitor at an international commercial law firm, where he acted in cross-border civil fraud trials and regulatory investigations across a number of industries, before he was seconded to deputise for the General Counsel of a FTSE 250 company.