Represented an Australian manufacturer in relation to a substantial fraud perpetrated by the CFO of its New Zealand subsidiary over a five year period, including asset tracing and recovery from businesses and real estate into which stolen funds had been introduced.
Represented an Australian manufacturer in relation to a substantial fraud perpetrated by the CFO of its New Zealand subsidiary over a five year period, including asset tracing and recovery from businesses and real estate into which stolen funds had been introduced.
Worked under the direction of FraudNet member, and in carefully coordinated conjunction with lawyers in several other jurisdictions, to obtain Court orders in the Cook Islands requiring a local trust company to provide secret pre-action discovery in relation to its dealings with a US judgment debtor who had hidden assets in several offshore centers.
Representation of a German individual defrauded by a group of Nigerian businessmen acting from Lebanon, Cyprus and New York in an international bank instrument fraud. US$ 800,000 was preliminary frozen in a bank account in Cyprus. Together with the FraudNet members in the British Virgin Islands, where the alleged account holder was domiciled, and Cyprus, an extraordinary ex-parte application for a Mareva injunction on freezing the account coupled with a NorwichPharmacal/Bankers Trust Order on document disclosure was filed. Worked with various governmental agencies, including the Cypriot Anti Money Laundering Unit to obtain information utilized in the Cypriot proceedings. A “Winding-up Application” was filed in the British Virgin Islands to recover monies in Cyprus bank accounts.
Represented spouse in tracing proceeds of £2 million fraud against deceased UK businessman who placed business assets offshore but was defrauded by business colleague.
Representation of a Jersey corporation in an action to trace assets in the Cayman Islands. The case involved the fraudulent disposition of assets and dishonest breaches of trust and concerned a number of different individuals and a host of corporate entitles in multiple jurisdictions. Assets valued at over US$ 80 million to a freezing injunction and proceedings to trace and recover a further US$ 10 million through various banking institutions and insurance companies in the Cayman Islands are ongoing. Directions are awaited pursuant to the Cayman Islands Confidential Relationships (Preservation) Law (1995 Revision).
Representation of a UK casino in freezing the assets in the name of a fraudster, including arresting an aeroplane in the name of the fraudster’s alleged alter ego, obtaining a series of disclosure and anti-tip off orders and freezing bank accounts in various European jurisdictions.
Worked together with the English solicitors and appeared for the successful beneficiaries in the landmark Jersey case on the scope of the constructive trust remedy in that jurisdiction, the principles of tracing, and the Pauline action (a decision influential in the development of the law of trusts).