Ellie Lifely

Ellie is an associate in the firm’s market-leading fraud and asset recovery team, supporting corporates, high-net-worth individuals and financial institutions on complex, high-value and multi-jurisdictional disputes. She has experience advising clients across the UK, Europe and the Middle East, particularly those requiring swift, strategic solutions to fraud, asset dissipation, and enforcement issues.

Ellie advises on all aspects of fraud litigation and asset recovery, including asset tracing, enforcement proceedings and injunctions. She has particular expertise in securing urgent interim relief in England and abroad, including domestic and worldwide freezing orders, disclosure orders, search orders and mandatory injunctions. Her work often involves time-sensitive applications, requiring careful cross-border coordination to secure, preserve and recover assets effectively.

• Global enforcement of AED 1 billion UAE judgment

  Acted for high-net-worth individuals in enforcing a UAE judgment and tracing assets across multiple jurisdictions. Successfully obtained domestic and worldwide freezing orders, Bankers Book Evidence Act Orders and Norwich Pharmacal relief, both in England and abroad. 

• Major asset tracing project and bankruptcy proceedings

  Acted for joint trustees in bankruptcy on a major cross-border asset tracing exercise, including successfully obtaining a worldwide freezing order, search orders and Norwich Pharmacal Orders, while bringing concurrent bankruptcy proceedings in the High Court. 

• Successfully obtaining £80 million freezing orders and asset preservation orders

  Acted for the joint administrators of a payday loans company, successfully obtaining urgent worldwide and domestic freezing orders and asset preservation orders in relation to over £80 million of misappropriated funds.