Action
Litigation and asset recovery
Establishing where the money is tells you what is possible. Litigation is how it is done. This is also the part of the work that no unregulated recovery service can do at all, because it requires rights the courts grant only to regulated lawyers.
Stop it moving
A freezing order prevents assets being shifted or spent while a claim is resolved. Timing decides a great deal here: the whole value of a case can turn on whether an application was made before the money went somewhere else.
Compel the answer
Courts can require banks, exchanges and other third parties to disclose who holds funds and where they went. It is the mechanism that turns an anonymous account into somebody who can be sued.
Claim, then collect
We bring proceedings against the people who took the money and against those who received it knowing what it was, and enforce judgments against the assets identified along the way. A judgment nobody enforces is a piece of paper.
How this works
The steps we take
Freeze
Urgent preservation and freezing applications where the evidence supports them.
Disclose
Orders against banks, exchanges and intermediaries to identify assets and defendants.
Claim
Civil proceedings against the wrongdoers and the knowing recipients of your money.
Enforce
Enforcement of orders and judgments against the assets that have been located.
Common questions
About litigation & asset recovery
Will I have to stand up in court?
Usually not. Most of this happens on paper and in hearings we attend for you. If your evidence is needed — a witness statement, occasionally more — we prepare you properly and you are not left to work it out on the day.
What if there is nothing left to recover?
That is a genuine risk and we assess it honestly before you commit to anything. Frequently, though, money has been passed on to accounts and assets that can still be reached, which is the entire point of tracing first. We will not encourage a claim we do not believe is worth bringing.
Does this sound like your situation?
The assessment is free and confidential, and it ends with an honest view of whether anything can be recovered.