In fraud litigation, speed is essential. Our lawyers' in-depth knowledge means we can step in to take urgent action to protect our clients. This means we can help you achieve the best possible results.

Our team has 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 is ranked in Chambers for dispute resolution (expertise based abroad) for Russia.

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."

Our lawyers are proactive and imaginative, and our advice is always clear and commercial. We help clients reach the outcomes they want. Often, this is settlement and we can devise strategies to help achieve this. But where a case goes to trial, we can be trusted to achieve the best possible outcome. In a recent survey, we were ranked amongst the Top 10 UK law firms for our success rate in winning cases in Court.

"A fantastic group of people doing some of the most high-profile fraud work in the London market – a highly efficient and savvy team with real strength in depth."

Administrator of a Latvian bank

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.

Former Yukos shareholders v Russia

Representing the former shareholders of Yukos Oil Company in English proceedings to enforce a US$54+ billion arbitration award against the Russian Federation. To our knowledge, this is the largest ever enforcement claim brought before the English court.

Madoff fraud

Advising an investment bank on its overall global strategy to maximise its recoveries and minimise its exposure to claims following its €600 million exposure to the Madoff fraud.

Ukrainian parties

Successfully discharged a worldwide freezing order which had been obtained in support of an arbitration claim against our Ukrainian clients. We discharged this multi-million dollar injunction early on, after a contested application before the Tribunal and with indemnity costs.

Asset recovery action

Advised on bringing claims in excess of US$1 billion against an oligarch's former business associate and successfully obtaining an injunction against his former financial advisers, freezing sums held in banks in the former CIS and offshore.

Arab Republic of Egypt

Advising on the tracing and recovery of assets, estimated to be up to US$70 billion, misappropriated by former President Hosni Mubarak's regime, involving investigations in over a dozen jurisdictions. This is, to our knowledge, the largest investigation into a former leader's mismanagement of state funds. 

Liquidators of Rangers FC

Acting for the liquidators of the 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.

Igor Mints

Acting for a successful Russian businessman and the co-owner of an international investment management company headquartered in London. On 28 June 2019, 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.

Libyan Investment Authority

Acting in relation to the affairs of the Libyan Investment Authority ("LIA") representing one of the persons claiming to be chairman of the LIA in various claims, based on misappropriation of Libyan assets during the Gaddafi era, in different jurisdictions around the world, including the UK, Cayman Islands, the Netherlands and France and including the appointment by the English Commercial Court of receivers and managers in relation to LIA assets and claims.