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The Premier Integrated Solution for Both Creditors and Debtors.
We are the only firm able to deliver, in one team, the full spectrum of expertise in global asset recovery matters. Our lawyers include several former U.S. Department of Justice and U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission lawyers with deep experience in international asset investigations and forfeiture, who are co-authors of several books on international asset recovery. Our lawyers also include English solicitors and barristers with a significant track record in litigating in various offshore jurisdictions. In addition, our team includes two English Queen's Counsel with significant experience both attacking and defending sophisticated offshore trusts and structures, including in the context of cross-border insolvency litigation.
Representative Engagements.
Creditors.
- Representation of the Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands in enforcing judgments of more than US $100 million against assets and defendants in multiple jurisdictions including Florida, New York, Ireland, the Cayman Islands, Hong Kong, and Singapore, among other places. Our work in this matter was profiled on the front page of The Wall Street Journal (September 10, 2011).
- Asset tracing and forfeiture proceedings involving Canada, the British Virgin Islands, and the United States, which were intertwined with related criminal prosecutions, U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission civil enforcement actions, and Canadian regulatory proceedings in connection with an alleged US $80 million stock manipulation scheme
- Asset tracing and forfeiture proceedings involving more than US $70 million embezzled by an executive at a Swiss financial institution, and use of stolen funds to purchase and improve a large five-star hotel in the United States
- Asset tracing and recovery efforts on behalf of an African bank involving more than US $20 million stolen in an elaborate fraud scheme perpetrated on the bank by a purported commodities importer
- Asset forfeiture proceedings and international investigations conducted in connection with disputed ownership claims over a famous rare coin issued by the United States Mint, eventually auctioned at Sotheby's for approximately US $7 million
- Asset forfeiture proceedings of more than US $5 million involving financial institutions and bank accounts in Europe, the Middle East, and Africa, and related criminal investigations and prosecutions for money laundering and wire fraud
Debtors / Trustees & Protectors.
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Representation of a European public company as judgment debtor in defending against attempts by a non-U.S. bankruptcy trustee to enforce a judgment exceeding US $100 million via a Chapter 15 proceeding in a U.S. Bankruptcy Court
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Representation of a securities brokerage firm in connection with allegations by the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission of unlawful trading in restricted stock through an offshore structure in the Turks & Caicos Islands and issues of non-U.S. confidentiality legislation
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Representation of a partner in an offshore LLP in Bermuda in connection with an alleged forfeit of partnership interests arising out of admitted misappropriations, involving US $500 million in controversy
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Representation of a British Virgin Islands company in defending against enforcement of a multi-million dollar U.S. judgment
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