Civil Fraud
The Civil Fraud Team specialises in complex fraud matters both in the UK and worldwide. Its focus is to provide clients with advice on risk management and with effective investigation, asset tracing, protection and recovery.
We believe in achieving the best preparation possible against fraud by helping clients to have procedures in place that ensure their ability to take effective investigative measures should fraud be suspected.
We represent a key element of the investigation process by obtaining vital disclosure both in the UK and overseas and we have particular experience in penetrating the confidentiality of offshore jurisdictions.
We can then move decisively to protect assets pending trial or settlement of a client’s claim. This requires not only experience in the domestic courts, but a familiarity with key foreign jurisdictions and the ability to co-ordinate successful action across multiple jurisdictions, often urgently and in secret.
In assisting our clients, we will often be working in close co-operation with investigative and forensic accounting specialists and with service providers in other jurisdictions to ensure that the client receives the benefit of an integrated and focused service delivering all its needs.
In particular, the Team has experience of:
- Freezing Orders and other interim remedies
- Third Party Disclosure Orders
- Disclosure and interim remedies in offshore jurisdictions
- Interlocutory Injunctive Relief relating to allegations of dishonesty, conspiracy and misfeasance
- Restraint and Confiscation Orders under the Proceeds of Crime Act 2002
- Search and Seizure Orders
In addition, we have expertise in anti-money laundering, civil recovery by enforcement agencies, financial crime, regulatory issues and VAT fraud. We provide experience in alternative dispute resolution as part of a flexible approach; ADR is not always inconsistent with a good result in a fraud case.
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