International Asset Recovery

Obtaining a judgment or arbitral award or proceedings to enforce a foreign judgment or arbitral award may not be the final step, as some debtors will resist satisfying these orders and utilize strategies to shield assets. For example, they may attempt to relocate the assets to jurisdictions that do not recognize certain judgments or lack a well-established enforcement structure.

It is crucial to be proactive and develop a global strategy for collection at an early stage to ensure that judgments and arbitral awards will be satisfied and assets recovered efficiently in the event a debtor does not voluntarily satisfy a judgment or award.

Asset tracing and recovery efforts are inherently multijurisdictional endeavors that require familiarity with foreign legal systems and good relationships with foreign legal professionals.

Our firm has experience in both common law and civil law jurisdictions, a virtual necessity in an effort to unmask complex fraudulent schemes and recover assets across multiple jurisdictions. Legal counsel must remain steps ahead of increasingly sophisticated fraud designed to hide assets. We investigate illegal trusts, intricate tax structures, corporate shells, and other structures.

We aim to collect sums owing from difficult debtors, which may be sovereigns, banks, companies, or individual debtors.

Kramer International Law can help clients plan for uncooperative debtors and successfully carry out enforcement strategies by taking a thorough and customized approach to asset recovery across borders, relentlessly pursuing recovery despite the obstacles fraudsters may try to put in the way.