Acting for a Russian bank in relation to
asset freezing relief against a Russian businessman in England.
Acting for a Russian bank in relation to proposed enforcement proceedings relating to an LCIA arbitration award against an individual borrower in Cyprus and other jurisdictions, including
asset freezing relief.
Not exact matches
Moreover, the same order from Judge Zobel also
froze assets related to three
relief defendants: Kimberly Renee Benge, Barbara Crater Meeks, and Erica Crater, all of whom have been linked to the company and whom allegedly received customer funds «without providing any legitimate services to clients and without any interest or entitlement to such customer funds.»
On January 17, 2012, Judge Carol E. Jackson of the U.S. District Court, Eastern District of Missouri granted the SEC's request for emergency injunctive
relief (including an
asset freeze and appointment of a receiver) against Burton Douglas Morriss as well as several investment management companies and private equity funds operated by Morriss in response to the SEC's complaint alleging that Morriss misappropriated more than $ 9 million in investor
assets from 2005 through 2011.
Under the 2015 deal forged by a multinational coalition, Iran agreed to reduce nuclear facilities in exchange for unlocking
frozen assets and sanctions
relief.
Our expertise in the pursuit and defence of civil fraud claims, particularly in the commercial context, extends from the early advisory stages and the obtaining (or resisting) of urgent
freezing and search order
relief (including dealing with the cross-jurisdictional issues that may arise and enforcement through applications for contempt and other measures), through to trial and the tracing and recovery of
assets both in the UK and internationally.
And the more radical the
relief sought, such as orders
freezing assets, the more formal all the approaches are going to have to be.
(i) A
freezing order will be granted more readily after judgment than before; it is sufficient for the grant of
relief that there is a real risk that the judgment will remain unsatisfied if injunctive
relief is refused; (ii) there is no reason why the court should not exercise a power to appoint a receiver by way of equitable execution over future receipts from a defined
asset.
Claims involving fraud (including bribery) and
asset recovery including
freezing orders, search orders and other forms of interlocutory
relief.
Mechanisms such as prejudgment remedies of attachment and garnishment, injunctive
relief to
freeze assets,
asset discovery, and debtor examinations are all part of our strategy to see that our client's claims are not rendered uncollectable through the dissipation of
assets.
six major Hollywood studios securing ex parte civil search orders,
asset freezing orders and interim injunctive
relief which took down the world's largest online piracy operation, Popcorn Time
For example, it may be necessary to delay when the company has a claim for injunctive
relief against individuals, to avoid
assets being dissipated in advance of a
freezing order being granted.
Somewhat exceptionally, worldwide
freezing order
relief was granted in Republic of Haiti v Duvalier [1989] 1 All ER 456, [1989] 2 WLR 261, a case in which the defendants neither were domiciled nor had
assets in England.
By the very nature of the
relief — directed towards preventing the defendant from dissipating / concealing his
assets — worldwide
freezing orders are only effective if applied for without notice.
The ability to extend the prohibition on disposal of
assets beyond the named defendant to related entities is a unique and important aspect of worldwide
freezing order
relief (see Marlwood v Kozeny [2007] EWHC 950 (Comm)-RRB-.
The only
relief sought against the companies was an order
freezing certain
assets pending the outcome of the U.K. proceeding.