I am Partner in Grant Thornton UK’s Insolvency and Asset Recovery team, with more than 35 years of experience in tracing, securing and recovering assets across multiple jurisdictions worldwide. My expertise spans complex cross-border matters involving India, EMEA region, Russia and the CIS, Europe, Africa and the Americas, leveraging both civil recovery and insolvency procedures to achieve successful outcomes.
I played a key role in establishing a specialist enforcement fund designed to support high-value asset recovery and enforcement matters where Grant Thornton acts as the appointed recovery agent. The fund provides non-recourse financing for enforcement actions and related litigation in exchange for a share of recoveries. Its flexible mandate also enables the acquisition of non-performing loans, distressed debt portfolios, judgments and arbitration awards.
I advise corporates, financial institutions, public sector bodies and victims of fraud on complex recovery and enforcement strategies and have also been appointed as Receiver by courts in a number of jurisdictions, including the UK, Antigua, Bermuda, the British Virgin Islands, the Cayman Islands, Nevis, Jersey and Delaware.
Notable cases include: Liquidator of an Antiguan offshore bank - $150m fraud, Liquidator in Winsome Diamonds case - $1bn loss to consortium of Indian banks, Liquidator of BVI company involved in Isabel Dos Santos - $1bn+ fraud, Trustee over John ‘Goldfinger’ Palmer, and Trustee of Boris Berezovsky, the billionaire Russian Oligarch.
I also lead the competition damages and group action team. They have settled a number of the high-profile leading competition cases on behalf of groups of claimants.
My team have recovered in excess of $5bn of hidden misappropriated assets over the last 10 years from over 65 jurisdictions and are consistently recognised by leading industry directories.
In my spare time I enjoy playing rugby in the vets and refereeing.
