International Judgment Enforcement & Offshore Asset Recovery | Kobre & Kim

Events October 16, 2018

Robin Baik Discusses Corporate Cyber Fraud and Global Asset Recovery Strategies

Robin Baik will discuss corporate cyber fraud and global strategies to enhance asset recovery at the ABA New Engine of Growth: Investment and Technology Conference on October 19 in Seoul.

Publications October 12, 2018

The New Art Fraud: Galleries, Dealers are Next Global Hacking Targets

A team of Kobre & Kim attorneys - including Randall Arthur, Lara Levinson, Jason A. Masimore, Jef Klazen and Steven G. Kobre - shed light on one of the new targets of global hackers - the art world.

Client Alert September 25, 2018

The New Art Fraud: Galleries and Dealers Are the Next Global Hacking Targets

The art world is an attractive target because of its fast-paced, high-value transactions with minimal documentation.
Once the money has been wired to the criminal’s account, they move to transfer the funds to erase their trace and disappear undetected.
Victims of such a hack must wield all of the legal and investigative tools at their disposal to maximize the odds of recovery.

Events September 24, 2018

Rebecca Hume and Benjamin Sauter to be among the featured speakers at the Asset Recovery Americas conference in New York

Cayman-based litigator, Rebecca Hume, will highlight asset recovery in cases involving divorce or contested probate during the panel “Love, death and bankruptcy.”

Events September 20, 2018

Marcus Green Weighs the “End Game” Challenges within Arbitration Award Enforcement

Marcus Green will be leading a panel discussion featuring arbitration award creditors and debtors alike on the challenges in the “end game” of arbitration enforcement at the Second Annual Enforcement of Arbitration Awards in Amsterdam on Friday, September 21.

Publications July 12, 2018

Precedent-Setting Digital Currency Recovery Team Explores Options for Fraud Victims

David McGill and Benjamin Sauter, the first lawyers to freeze misappropriated digital currency on a fraud victim’s behalf, along with Washington DC-based lawyer Jake Chervinsky, survey the current digital asset recovery landscape in a recent Bloomberg Law article.

Client Alert June 7, 2018

Fraud Victims Pursuing Assets Offshore

Recent judgments have provided victims with a new route to claim damages from third parties, and thereby widen the pool from which to make a recovery.
Claimants in numerous common law jurisdictions now can bring two new types of claims against associates of fraudsters who have assisted in the dissipation of assets after a freezing order or judgment has been obtained.
Creditors seeking to make recoveries against fraudsters based in offshore jurisdictions should consider these two new, but related, claims against third parties when developing their asset recovery strategy.

Events June 5, 2018

Randall Arthur Provides Insight into Monetizing Judgments and the Insolvency Process at the Asset Recovery Asia Conference

Hong Kong-based lawyer Randall Arthur will explore direct enforcement of overseas judgments by insolvency practitioners at Asset Recovery Asia taking place on June 5-6 in Singapore.

Events May 25, 2018

Jef Klazen Examines Asset Tracing Techniques at the International Enforcement of Judgments & Awards Forum

Jef Klazen will review asset tracing tools used in post-judgment discovery at the Cambridge Forum on International Enforcement of Judgments & Awards on June 4. The panel, “A Survey of Lesser-Known Judicially-Assisted Asset Tracing Tools & Techniques in Common Law and Civil Law Jurisdictions,” will explore the use and limitations of discovery and other court-assisted information-gathering techniques that are available in civil-law or common-law jurisdictions for cross-border asset tracing.

Publications March 30, 2018

Creating a Roadmap to Recovery After Digital Currency Fraud: David McGill and Benjamin Sauter Explain

David McGill and Benjamin Sauter, both litigators with an acute focus on digital currency fraud and regulation, explain the strategies they employed to freeze misappropriated assets in a high-value cryptocurrency fraud.

Publications March 29, 2018

Global Judgment Enforcement Team Offers Strategies for Freezing Debtor Assets Across the EU

The European Account Preservation Order simplifies cross-border asset preservation across 26 member states, introducing a standardized application process that can save judgment creditors time, effort and costs.

Accolades March 29, 2018

Seoul Office Named “New Asian Office of the Year”

Kobre & Kim’s two-and-a-half-year-old Seoul office was named “New Asian Office of the Year” at the 2018 Asia Legal Awards.

Events February 28, 2018

Rebecca Hume and Andrew Stafford KC Discuss International Asset Recovery and Fraud Litigation

Rebecca Hume and Andrew Stafford KC will examine international judgment enforcement, asset recovery and fraud litigation on February 28 at KNect’s “Asset Recovery: Fraud Litigation, Enforcement & Contentious Insolvency” conference.

Events February 28, 2018

John Han Explores International Judgment Enforcement and Arbitration Awards

John Han shared strategies for enforcing judgments and arbitration awards across jurisdictions at a seminar hosted by the Hong Kong Institute of Chartered Secretaries on February 28. The program titled, “Enforcement of Large Judgments and Arbitration Awards,” focused on issues that may arise in international judgment enforcement and the legal mechanisms to consider in order to monetize debt, including discovery mechanisms, asset freezing, asset preservation remedies and international recognition of judgments and arbitration awards.

Publications November 17, 2017

Jalil Asif KC and Pam Mitchell Discuss the Cayman Islands Judgment Enforcement Landscape

Cayman Islands-based international judgment enforcement lawyers Jalil Asif KC and Pamella Mitchell dissect the current cross-border judgment enforcement landscape in the Cayman Islands.