In fraud litigation and asset recovery, speed is essential. Our lawyers' in-depth knowledge means we can step in to take urgent action to protect our clients. We are ranked in Tier 1 of The Legal 500 and Chambers & Partners, where a number of our lawyers are ranked as leading individuals.
We have extensive experience of bringing and defending:
- fraud claims
- multi-jurisdictional and domestic asset tracing
- freezing injunctions, in support of domestic and foreign proceedings
- other injunctions, including search and seizure order, receivership orders and gagging.
We have acted on many of the largest fraud claims in England and globally. Much of our work is international, and we have significant expertise of fraud claims arising from emerging markets, including the CIS/CEE, Africa and India.
Our team includes specialists in financial services fraud, who have decades of experience of fraud claims for and against banks, funds, and senior employees/directors of companies in the financial services sector. We often manage fraud claims with concurrent parallel proceedings including civil, criminal, regulatory and arbitration proceedings (domestically and abroad).
Winning a case is not the final step in litigation. We regularly assist clients to trace assets and enforce judgments and arbitration awards, in England and abroad. Our expertise in this area is recognised by Chambers Asset Tracing & Recovery (Law Firms) global guide, noting that we "quarterback some of the biggest mandates around" and are "a very big litigation and asset tracing focused firm."
我们的服务
我们协助客户应对复杂的欺诈诉讼，无论是提起还是抗辩涉及不诚实行为、虚假陈述或欺骗的索赔。
Our strategic legal advice is highly renowned. We protect our client's interests and are best placed to achieve the outcomes they desire.
Recent cases include:
- Acting for the administrator of an insolvent CEE bank in fraud proceedings against the bank's former owner, a Russian businessman. Successfully obtained freezing orders, search orders and succeeded at trial with a US$70+ million judgment for our client.
- Commencing multiple parallel proceedings in different jurisdictions to assist a corporate shareholder in a dispute with a target company, involving complex issues of corporate law, and successfully achieving settlement for them as a result of this effective litigation strategy.
- Acting for the liquidators of Rangers Football Club, bringing substantial fraud claims against individuals involved in the takeover of the club. The fraud is now the subject of high profile criminal proceedings in Scotland.
- Acting for a successful Russian businessman and the co-owner of an international investment management company headquartered in London. Two Russian banks, PJSC National Bank Trust and PJSC Bank Otkritie Financial Corporation, commenced proceedings claiming US$572 million against him, his father and his two brothers.
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