Our asset recovery professionals know how to “find the money,” with extensive experience in coordinating and pursuing recovery of claims and judgments throughout the world.

Through our knowledge and experience with international legal systems and jurisdictions, our attorneys offer a way to overcome foreign barriers to collection. We assist individuals, trustees and companies in recovering losses where assets or claims have a multi-jurisdictional focus. We have experience with the doctrines particular to international litigation, such as jurisdiction, conflicts of law and gathering evidence abroad. We direct litigation pending in more than one jurisdiction and the related legal issues, such as injunctions and witness testimony and evidence gathering. And, our international capabilities enable us to gather facts and evidence quickly, effectively and efficiently.

Our attorneys have developed a wide range of contacts to assist in investigations throughout the United States and abroad. We work closely with investigators, computer forensic experts, foreign attorneys, forensic accountants, handwriting experts and other forged document experts. We also work closely with federal, state and local authorities in the United States and foreign jurisdictions who assist in the prosecution.

Swift recovery is critical, and our experience, contacts and resources allow us to move quickly and efficiently. With our knowledge of international legal systems and jurisdictions, we can provide our clients with a way to overcome global bureaucratic, linguistic and cultural barriers and recover their losses.

In cases of fraud, there is no limitation to jurisdictions and often these cases require a world-wide investigation to reach a conclusion. We understand that time and expense is often wasted because people do not know where and how to recover a loss. The discovery of a fraud and the ultimate success depends upon whether the misappropriated funds or assets of the perpetrators can be recovered. Our attorneys respond quickly in such situations, utilizing emergency injunctions, ex-parte discovery of bank records and other written information and expedited depositions.

Representative Matters

• Procured material evidence and established legal basis to support a multimillion dollar fidelity bond claim on behalf of the New York branch of a foreign bank in a case of bank fraud and bribery of a bank officer.
   
• Secured claims though Mareva injunctions and related relief in a case of serial fraud against a group of high net worth individuals and a related software corporation, in an amount exceeding $12 million, including approximately $4 million in cash.
   
• Discovered that a judgment debtor had created a group of companies which he was using to transfer and conceal his assets while we were in the process of collecting a $2 million judgment on behalf of a major Chicago bank. Further legal action was taken based on conspiracy and RICO.
   
• Recovered 95 percent of the loss within 90 days of receipt of instructions in a $720 million circular securities, margin account credit and check-kiting fraud scheme, freezing $35 million in assets in the Bahamas and $6 million in New York.
   
• Effected approximate 110 percent recovery within 34 days of the receipt of instructions in a $2.5 million over-draft credit and check-kiting scheme on one of the principal Canadian banks.
   
• Secured a client's $2.4 million fraud claim on a failed Nassau bank by obtaining a Mareva injunction from the Supreme Court of the Bahamas freezing bank assets; the next day secured a saissie conservatoire (a French freezing order against bank accounts) in Paris, blocking funds belonging to the bank principals.

For more information on our Litigation practice, please contact:
Peter M. Kellett, Director 313-568-6668
Eric S. Rein, Leader 312-627-2279