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Fraud Lawyers

Investigate. Trace. Recover.

We stand with you to investigate fraud, trace and seize assets and recover misappropriated funds.

Our civil and criminal practitioners, global investigation and corporate crime specialists and contentious insolvency experts provide practical and decisive advice and action from the moment we pick up the phone.

Our multi-disciplinary team will ensure that no stone is left unturned to cover all options and all possible outcomes.

Civil Fraud: We ensure that fraud has nowhere to hide. While London remains the preferred jurisdiction for global fraud disputes, our clients benefit from specialist expertise through our worldwide office locations. Our international network is at your fingertips to investigate, trace freeze and recover funds regardless of their movements.

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Criminal Fraud: We help victims and targets of fraud pursue just outcomes. This includes custodial sentences, financial recovery and freezing, restraint, and seizure and disqualification orders. You will have access to an in-depth view of private prosecutions and criminal fraud, as many of our lawyers have previously worked in law enforcement.
Internal Investigations: If you suspect or discover that a member of your staff has committed fraudulent actions against your company, our team will deliver a discreet solution. We delicately involve specialists in employment, data privacy, investigating and resolving payments, procurement and expenses fraud.
Banking and Corporate Fraud: Our Financial Litigation specialists support legal and investigations teams in the world's leading banks to manage and resolve fraud that affects financial institutions. This work includes investigating authorised push payments, identity theft, account takeovers and responding to court orders for disclosure, monitoring and account seizures.
Insolvency and Bankruptcy Related Fraud: We work independently or alongside Insolvency Practitioners and Trustees in Bankruptcy to investigate, trace and recover assets for creditors. We pursue civil and criminal actions against directors when needed, including wrongful or fraudulent trading and disqualification.
Defendants: Across all civil and criminal procedures, we represent individuals and companies accused of fraud, guided by our experience of acting on the claimant/prosecution side.

The largest fraud to affect lenders in recent years

We are no stranger to uncovering and dismantling Ponzi schemes. In 2021, the sports and event broadcasting world were shocked to learn that directors of Arena Television (supplier to BBC, ITV, Glastonbury Festival and more) had been defrauding lenders for more than ten years. They eventually misappropriated more than £290 million. After the defendants absconded overseas, our team worked with company administrators and the Serious Fraud Office to identify evidence of the fraudulent scheme, pursue recovery of the stolen assets and secure custodial sentences of the perpetrators.

We have traced fraud and retrieved assets in over 50 jurisdictions worldwide.

Our tools scale and evolve alongside new fraudulent tactics, this allows us to uncover buried evidence, freeze the assets and retrieve misappropriated funds hidden around the world.

We leave no stone left unturned. Here are all the places we've retrieved assets, even when they're half a world away.