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Civil fraud and asset recovery

When fraud has occurred, it is crucial to act quickly. We take the urgent action you need to investigate the cause and scope of the wrongdoing, mitigate damage, pursue wrongdoers and embark on asset tracing and asset recovery.

Overview

As one of the largest civil fraud and asset recovery practices in the City, our team of preeminent lawyers acts on the largest fraud disputes.

Advice from our civil fraud and asset recovery lawyers is always in your best commercial interests. We often achieve settlement but are always willing to pursue your objectives to trial if necessary. 

Having acted in every region of the world for individuals, corporates and insolvency office holders on large-scale, complex corporate investigations and fraud-related disputes (litigation and arbitration), we know how to handle the cultural sensitivities which frequently arise.  The majority of this work involves a cross-border element – including our experience of recovering assets in cases involving Europe, Russia and the former Soviet Union, Africa, US, the Middle East and offshore jurisdictions. No matter the international scope of your problem, our skills can match the challenge.

Our other notable capabilities are as follows:

  • We are adept at utilising alternative legal strategies, such as freezing orders and search orders, where required.
  • We call upon our extensive skillset in cyber-fraud and corporate investigations as required.
  • We have particular expertise in assisting clients who have fallen victim to a high value authorised push payment (APP) fraud. We have recovered many millions of stolen funds for clients over recent years.
  • We have a market leading Crypto & Digital Assets Disputes team ranked Band 1 by Chambers & Partners. In 2021 this team also founded the global Crypto Fraud and Asset Recovery (CFAAR) network. 

Contact our team to resolve your civil fraud and asset recovery crises.

Get in touch

Neville Byford

Partner

+44 20 3060 6000

London

Neville Byford

Yuankai Lin

Partner

+65 6422 3070

Singapore

Yuankai Lin

Team

Dan Wyatt

Partner

+44 20 3060 6585

London

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Rupert Boswall

Partner

+44 20 3060 6487

London

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Jonathan Cary

Partner

+44 20 3060 6418

London

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Simon Hart

Partner, Financial Services Sector Lead

+44 20 3060 6671

London

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Charlotte Henschen (née Ducker)

Partner, Professional Practices Sector Lead

+44 20 3060 6000

London

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Chris Ross

Partner

+44 20 3060 6258

London

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Alan Williams

Partner

+44 20 3060 6241

London

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