Civil Fraud, Asset Recovery & Enforcement

Acting for claimants in a £108 million offshore civil fraud in the Caribbean, involving asset tracing, jurisdictional risk, and cross-border enforcement strategy.

Dishonest receipt of a McLaren F1 GTR Long-tail.

Release of legal expenses for civil proceedings from restrained funds.

FCA civil and criminal investigation into fraud and money laundering, valued at £81.4m.

Asset recovery proceedings following a multi-million pound cross-border fraud involving hidden assets in the UAE.

Representing one of the individual defendants in a £2 billion claim for bribery and money laundering brought by Kuwait’s national pension fund. One of the largest fraud disputes ever heard in the Commercial Court, with a trial scheduled to run for some 42 weeks over 2025 and 2026, and featured as one of The Lawyer’s ‘Top 20 Cases’ of 2025. Instructed by Quinn Emanuel Urquhart & Sullivan UK LLP.

Represented the First Defendant as counsel in opposing immediate judgment in respect of a $34,000,000 fraud allegedly committed against Dr Shetty.

Coghlan [2017] EWHC 570 (QB) (High Court committal arising out of civil recovery)

Business and Property Court, acting for bank in recovery of £51m.

Acting for an offshore holding company in its claim to recover c$12m following its sale of all intellectual property in the PONY brand.

Campbell [2017] Lloyds Rep FC 598 (Court of Appeal - forfeiture).

1MDB sovereign wealth fund investigations.

Representing the joint trustees in bankruptcy in High Court proceedings, and on appeal, in various claim brought by the bankrupt to set aside his bankruptcy on the basis that it was obtained by fraud.

Representing 100+ victim claimants in civil proceedings against 50+ defendants further to a fraudulent investment scheme.

Successfully acted for a defendant company in an application by a claimant for summary judgment on a claim of bribery against 4 defendants arising on defences pleaded as part of a substantial pension fraud claim. Also obtained order by defendant to withdraw admissions.

Fraud, conversion, personal and proprietary claims following the taking of charitable funds by a corrupt employee.

Recovery proceedings involving a network of offshore SPVs, shadow directors, phoenix companies and a firm of corrupt attorneys.

Successfully defending a director of a major retail bank facing an internal investigation into fraud allegations and following extensive investigations by the police and the bank. The case was NFA’d after detailed representations were made as to why there should be no charges.

High Court forfeiture of unlicensed money service business proceeds

As well as representing the DPP and the Trustee holding the bitcoin, acting for many thousands of Chinese victims of an investment scheme that transpired to be a Ponzi fraud. They are advancing a proprietary claim to a significant share of Bitcoin currently worth $5.5 billion that is held by the UK authorities pursuant to a property freezing order issued by the High Court.

Acting for lenders in the recovery of significant sums owed (£10m) where enforcement required recovery by fixed charge receivers of unregistered land.

Acting for Alternative Power Solution Ltd in an appeal to the Privy Council from Mauritius. This case concerned the so-called “fraud exception” in relation to letters of credit.

Coordinating counsel in the multi-jurisdictional enforcement of a series of commercial and criminal judgements (over $2bn).

Namli [2014] EWCA Civ 411 ($7m Turkish bank civil recovery action)

Civil action against betting company for recovery of gambled fraud proceeds.

Acting for Kroll as fixed charge receiver and a tertiary lender seeking to recover possession of commercial assets (solar farm and agricultural land) following termination of a £10m finance facility.

US$2Billion claim brought by The Republic of Mozambique against Credit Suisse International and Others, in respect of a number of sovereign guarantees, in a case that became known as the ‘Tuna Bonds’ litigation. One of the largest trials ever to be heard before the Courts of England and Wales and featured in The Lawyer’s Top 20 cases for 2023.

A case involving allegations of fraudulent invoicing in the course of a major construction project. The appeal judgment overturned a first instance decision to impose a payment condition on the Defendant as security for defending the claim.

Representing group of publicly listed companies defrauded by former employees and 40 other persons.

Acting Cypriot investors in response to a claim from Mars Capital seeking to enforce debts acquired from Laiki Bank and the Cypriot government following the banking crisis in 2007. Challenge was raised as to Mars’ entitlement to enforce the debt: failing to satisfy good title with challenges to the assignment and whether it was lawful under Cypriot law.

Leading in the Orb/Gerald Smith £70m Commercial Court proceedings involving 27 parties, BVI and Jersey liquidators and High Court receivers to recover the proceeds of breach of trust and fraudulently obtained property.