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Behind the Scenes of Complex, Cross-Border Asset Recovery: Practitioners Share Stories of How They Overcame High Stakes Obstacles to Recovery

Keith Oliver
Head of International
Peters & Peters Solicitors LLP (UK)
Most high-value fraud victims are concerned about how they can recover from the significant financial losses that they have suffered, and there is often a huge gap between orders of restitution and recovery of the actual amount lost or hidden. In many of these cases, there are significant barriers to being compensated — including insolvency, jurisdictional hurdles, evidentiary challenges, and difficulty in tracing assets.
Moreover, when a high-value fraud involves a number of jurisdictions, it becomes a very complex landscape within which fraud practitioners must navigate, and requires focus and consideration of conflicting regimes, class priorities, foreign substantive law, and an array of other foreign insolvency and fraud-related proceedings.
Bring your questions, as our experts address some of the most pressing and difficult challenges confronting fraud and asset recovery practitioners in complex matters, such as:
- Challenges in selecting the right forum(s) and venue(s) to prevent delay, gain momentum and improve chances of asset recovery
- Issues with obtaining and serving injunctive relief orders against unknown individuals and organizations
- What can be done to overcome a lack of cooperation between legal practitioners and enforcement authorities in the affected jurisdictions
- Navigating the different approaches taken to disclosure and discovery in Civil and Common Law jurisdictions