Retrieval Law Firm
Global Fraud Prevention & Cross-Border Asset Recovery Team
Renowned across the global legal services industry for landmark achievements in cross-border asset recovery over the past decade, our team has helped institutional and individual clients recover billions of US dollars in assets linked to fraudulent activities. We have also set multiple judicial precedents in cross-border commercial litigation, consistently leading the field of cross-border fraud resolution and hidden asset recovery worldwide.
Cross-border asset tracing, preservation and recovery is a highly sophisticated multi-jurisdictional legal practice. It requires in-depth expertise in substantive and procedural laws across different countries, as well as a robust, long-term network of partnerships with judicial and legal authorities overseas. Our team has established solid experience covering both common law and civil law jurisdictions. Our core practitioners include cross-border commercial litigation attorneys, cross-border insolvency specialists, former public prosecutors and cross-border compliance lawyers. We specialize in complex cross-border fraud cases featuring convoluted corporate structures and covert capital flows.
Fraud perpetrators often use sophisticated financial instruments and multi-layered corporate vehicles to transfer and conceal assets. To address this prevalent challenge, our team has developed proprietary case strategies. With forward-thinking approaches and innovative legal solutions, we excel at untangling intricate tax frameworks, shell entities and illicit trust structures, and conducting full-scale recovery of wrongfully diverted cross-border assets.
Capabilities
Our Practice Areas
Modern asset tracing and recovery are multijurisdictional endeavors. Our team combines profound depth of expertise across myriad jurisdictions with out-of-the-box thinking and creative solutions.
Economic Dispute Resolution
Strategic litigation for complex financial disputes including investment losses, contract breaches, partnership conflicts, and debt recovery at every level of court.
Learn More →Commercial Litigation
Aggressive representation in high-stakes business disputes, including breach of fiduciary duty, trade secret theft, unfair competition, and corporate governance issues.
Learn More →Fraud & Asset Recovery
Specialized in tracing and recovering funds lost to investment fraud, Ponzi schemes, wire fraud, cryptocurrency scams, and international financial crimes.
Learn More →Securities & Investment Fraud
Representing victims of broker misconduct, churning, unauthorized trading, and misleading investment schemes before FINRA and federal courts.
Learn More →Contract & Partnership Disputes
Resolving complex disputes arising from breached agreements, joint ventures gone wrong, shareholder oppression, and dissolution proceedings.
Learn More →International Arbitration
Cross-border dispute resolution and enforcement of judgments across jurisdictions, with extensive experience in ICC, LCIA, and AAA proceedings.
Learn More →Track Record
Billions Recovered. Worldwide.
Our record speaks for itself. These representative results demonstrate our ability to achieve exceptional outcomes in the most complex cross-border cases.
International Recoveries
In the past ten years, customers have recovered billions of dollars across complex cross-border matters.
Jurisdictions Engaged
Assets traced and recovered across common law and civil law systems on multiple continents.
Large-Scale Fraud Schemes
Unwinding sophisticated Ponzi schemes and recovering funds for thousands of defrauded victims.
Digital Asset Tracing
Tracing and recovering cryptocurrency and digital assets moved across borders and exchanges.
Corporate Structure Unwinding
Deconstructing corporate shells and illegal trusts used to hide and move money abroad.
Precedent-Setting Outcomes
Creating new law and pioneering tactics that keep our team on the vanguard of asset recovery.
Prior results do not guarantee a similar outcome. Each matter is unique.
Insights
Track Record & Experience
Representative cross-border matters from the past decade. Select any case to expand the full account.
Prior results do not guarantee a similar outcome. Each matter is unique.
Our Approach
How We Recover
A proven, multijurisdictional approach that has recovered tens of billions of dollars for clients around the world.
Assessment & Strategy
We evaluate the matter, map the relevant jurisdictions, and design a coordinated multijurisdictional strategy from day one.
Tracing & Investigation
Forensic accountants and investigators trace the flow of funds through corporate shells, trusts, and complex tax structures worldwide.
Litigation & Freezing Orders
We deploy emergency injunctions, freezing orders, and litigation across jurisdictions to secure assets before they can be dissipated.
Recovery & Enforcement
We enforce judgments and awards across borders and pursue collection relentlessly until assets are returned to their rightful owners.
Our Team
Meet Our Attorneys
Brian Jay Johnson
With over 22 years of practice, Brian Jay Johnson specializes in cross-border fraud, financial crimes, and international asset recovery. He handles sophisticated cases involving transnational financial scams, cyber fraud, and identity theft, and is dedicated to recovering financial losses for corporate and individual clients.
He serves as legal counsel for numerous leading financial institutions, advising on compliance and risk management. Holding dual degrees in Law and Financial Crime, he is a regular speaker at international legal events.
"Where law crosses borders, justice stands firm."
Michael Stephen Sinclair
Senior international attorney specializing in cross-border asset recovery and financial fraud, with expertise in cross-jurisdictional case handling and asset tracing.
Carol Anne Hieb
Specializes in international fraud disputes and asset tracing, with extensive experience in cross-jurisdictional matters.
Bradford Nelson Paul
Experienced international practitioner focusing on financial crime prevention and cross-border asset preservation.
Justin Michael Blackwell
Focuses on international asset tracing and fraud litigation with solid practical experience.
Clients Worldwide
Why Our Team
Real Depth & Breadth
Our Global Fraud and International Asset Tracing and Recovery team is recognized worldwide for its unprecedented success. We are armed with profound depth of expertise across myriad jurisdictions and bring commercial litigators, insolvency practitioners, former prosecutors, and tax attorneys together to untangle the most complex frauds.
As fraudsters use increasingly sophisticated tools to hide assets, we develop new tactics and creative solutions to stay one step ahead, deconstructing the corporate shells and illegal trusts used to move money abroad.
- Billions of dollars recovered for clients
- Commercial litigators, insolvency practitioners, former prosecutors and tax attorneys
- Deep expertise across common law and civil law jurisdictions alike
- Strong relationships with foreign legal experts around the world
- Creative, out-of-the-box solutions that stay one step ahead of fraudsters
Recognized Worldwide
What Sets Us Apart
Real depth and breadth of knowledge in cross-border fraud and asset recovery — a team recognized worldwide for unprecedented success in international asset recovery.
Our professionals are experts at deconstructing the complex tax structures, corporate shells, and illegal trusts used to move money abroad, and are relentless in their pursuit of recoveries.
As fraudsters utilize increasingly sophisticated tools to hide assets, our team develops new tactics, reinforced by out-of-the-box thinking, to stay one step ahead.
Assets Hidden
Across Borders?
The faster you act, the more we can recover. Contact our Global Fraud and International Asset Tracing and Recovery team for a confidential assessment of your matter.
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If you have been a victim of fraud, scam, or economic dispute, we are here to help. Fill out the form to receive a free, confidential case review. Our attorneys will evaluate your situation and advise you on the best course of action to recover your losses.
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