Delivering seamless global advice on all aspects of fraud and asset recovery
Our international fraud and asset recovery team regularly advise multinational corporates, financial institutions and government entities in conducting internal investigations into fraudulent activity, facing enforcement authorities in criminal fraud matters and advising on litigation strategy in civil actions. We work with clients to recover misappropriated company property and information.
Securing the best result for our client
We have significant experience of making successful interlocutory applications for freezing orders, search and seizure orders, delivery-up orders and third party disclosure orders from banks or other institutions. We regularly liaise with other foreign jurisdictions to obtain "back to back" orders to ensure assets are preserved.
A dedicated global team
We have a large global network of experienced lawyers who regularly work together on cross-border matters. We can assemble an experienced team at short notice to conduct a fraud investigation or obtain urgent injunctive relief in jurisdictions all over the world. If necessary, we are able to organise the urgent forensic capture of data and put in place at short notice a document review team to review documents around the clock.
Fraud investigations: putting our clients first
In the event that our clients want to report the fraudulent activity of their employees or other third parties to the enforcement authorities, we also guide them in their interaction with those authorities, including providing information to the authorities to assist with the preparation of criminal proceedings against the perpetrators of the fraud.
Some examples of our experience include:
- Acting for the accused owner of a distance learning business in a criminal prosecution for VAT fraud, both at trial and in the UK Court of Appeal;
- Acting for a high-profile real estate corporate which was the victim of cyber fraud; we took action to close down websites and liaised with police authorities to gather evidence;
- Representing a major Australian bank in relation to a series of cyber fraud incidents involving the transfer of millions of dollars to Middle Eastern countries;
- Acting for a UK-listed oil and gas company facing allegations of fraud by a South-east Asian national oil company;
- Acting for a multinational engineering company in civil fraud proceedings and supporting criminal prosecutions (resulting in successful convictions) against an employee and subcontractors that were part of a fraudulent overpayment arrangement;
- Advising a global mining company on a multi-million dollar fraud perpetrated by a former senior employee over a five year period across five different continents. We successfully ran proceedings in Brisbane, and obtained orders in the High Courts in England and Hong Kong. We were also involved in the fraud investigations in Chile to recover the misappropriated assets;
- Advising a multi-national investment bank on allegations of a £500m fraud made by a former client relating to the sale of complex derivative products; we conducted a robust investigation and successfully met the allegations made in a letter before action, which resulted in the action being discontinued;
- Advising a major Australian energy company in an internal investigation regarding the potential misappropriation of funds and employee misconduct, in the raising of false invoices by suppliers.
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