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Fraud, Asset Tracing & Recovery

Recovery Strategy Built From the First Sign Assets Are at Risk

Averites represents businesses, investors, shareholders and private clients in disputes involving fraud, misappropriation, concealed assets, fraudulent transfers and other conduct designed to deprive clients of property or frustrate legitimate claims.

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OUR APPROACH

How We Advise on Fraud, Asset Tracing and Recovery

  1. Why Fraud Disputes Rarely Stay Within One Jurisdiction

    Fraud disputes frequently cross legal and geographic boundaries. Assets may be transferred among related companies, moved between jurisdictions, held through nominees or concealed behind complex ownership structures. Effective recovery, therefore, requires the coordination of litigation, investigation, interim relief, and enforcement from the outset.

  2. Claims We Advise On

    We advise on claims involving fraudulent misrepresentation, diversion of corporate assets, breaches of fiduciary duty, misappropriation, sham or related-party transactions, fraudulent conveyances and other schemes affecting ownership or value.

  3. Working With Forensic and Investigative Professionals

    Our lawyers work with forensic accountants, investigators, insolvency practitioners, and foreign counsel, where necessary, to reconstruct transactions, trace financial flows, identify beneficial ownership, and locate assets.

  4. Urgent Protective Measures

    Where urgent action is required, we seek or coordinate interim and protective measures designed to prevent further dissipation or movement of assets while the underlying claim is being determined.

  5. Why Asset Tracing Must Be Integrated With the Underlying Claim

    Asset-tracing strategy is integrated with the substantive proceedings. There is little value in obtaining a judgment or award against an entity that has been deliberately stripped of assets if potential recovery routes against recipients, related parties or other property have not been considered. We therefore assess from an early stage who may ultimately be liable, where assets may be found and which jurisdictions provide realistic enforcement options.

  6. Coordinating Parallel Criminal, Regulatory and Insolvency Proceedings

    Fraud may also generate parallel criminal, regulatory, insolvency or shareholder proceedings. Where appropriate, our International Dispute Resolution lawyers work with Averites’ White Collar, Corporate and Restructuring practices to coordinate these proceedings and ensure that steps taken in one forum support rather than undermine the broader recovery strategy.

  7. Our Objective — Practical Recovery

    Our objective is practical recovery. We focus not only on establishing wrongdoing, but on identifying the legal and procedural tools most likely to return value to the client.

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New York c/o Chornous Law PLLC
30 Wall Street, 8 Floor
New York, NY 10005 Phone: +1 650 382 7764
London 124 City Road
London, England
EC1V 2NX Phone: +44 7405 138109
Kyiv 11 Panasa Myrnoho Street
Office 1/1
Kyiv, 01011 Phone: +380 63 148 27 37

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  • Fraud disputes frequently cross legal and geographic boundaries. Assets may be transferred among related companies, moved between jurisdictions, held through nominees or concealed behind complex ownership structures. Effective recovery requires the coordination of litigation, investigation, interim relief, and enforcement from the outset.

    • We advise on claims involving fraudulent misrepresentation, diversion of corporate assets, breaches of fiduciary duty, misappropriation, sham or related-party transactions, fraudulent conveyances and other schemes affecting ownership or value.

      • Yes. Our lawyers work with forensic accountants, investigators, insolvency practitioners, and foreign counsel, where necessary, to reconstruct transactions, trace financial flows, identify beneficial ownership, and locate assets.

        • Yes. Where urgent action is required, we seek or coordinate interim and protective measures designed to prevent further dissipation or movement of assets while the underlying claim is being determined.

          • Exactly the risk we plan around. There is little value in obtaining a judgment or award against an entity that has been deliberately stripped of assets if potential recovery routes against recipients, related parties or other property haven’t been considered — we assess from an early stage who may ultimately be liable and where assets may realistically be recovered.

            • Yes. Fraud may generate parallel criminal, regulatory, insolvency or shareholder proceedings. Our International Dispute Resolution lawyers work with Averites’ White Collar, Corporate and Restructuring practices to coordinate these proceedings so steps in one forum support rather than undermine the broader recovery strategy.

              • There’s more to it. Our objective is practical recovery — we focus not only on establishing wrongdoing, but on identifying the legal and procedural tools most likely to actually return value to the client.