Fraud, Asset Recovery and White Collar Crime
The multi-disciplinary Fraud, Asset Recovery and White Collar Crime group is a cross-disciplinary group of specialists in corporate insolvency and restructuring, disputes and investigations team, competition and regulatory, sanctions, technology and digital services.
We have extensive experience of dealing with complex, cross-border investigations and litigation, dawn raids, obtaining urgent injunctive relief (including Anton Piller orders), asset tracing, freezing orders, as well as substantive judgments for an international client base. We regularly advise on cross-border enforcement issues, often dealing with novel points of international law as well as enforcement of judgments in non-treaty jurisdictions using comity and letters of request between courts, and have an extensive network of partner firms across the globe to provide full coverage to our clients.
We have vast experience dealing with the full spectrum of regulators in the Irish market and further afield, including, amongst others, the Corporate Enforcement Authority, Data Protection Commission, ComReg, the Health & Safety Authority, Revenue, Coimisiún na Meán, Standards in Public Office Commission.
We have a market leading cyber practice, and advise many household names and multinational clients in relation to cyber incidents, leading on the initial response, to notifications to regulators, law enforcement authorities (including the Garda National Economic Crime Bureau, Interpol and the FBI), as well as manging resultant litigation and regulatory investigations. We have an extensive network of forensic specialists with whom we partner closely on these mandates, to provide the urgent advice and assistance that is required.
Our core expertise includes:
- Advising on reporting obligations, both regulatory and criminal
- Crisis, risk and reputation management
- Fraud detection, asset recovery and tracing, including often complex issues around cross-border movement of assets which may involve attempts to put assets beyond our clients’ reach
- Public and private law enforcement
- Internal and external investigations
- Handling information requests and international production orders, subpoenas, and search warrants, under mutual legal assistance mechanisms
- Dawn raid training and assistance
- Preparing internal policies and providing training to senior management
Experience Highlights
Our experience includes advising:
- a global payroll management platform provider in respect of an internal bad actors conspiring with a competitor to disclose highly confidential and sensitive commercial information and trade secrets. This included seeking complex and novel Anton Piller orders against the bad actor, and seeking to enforce Irish court orders in other jurisdictions.
- an international MedTech company in respect of an invoicing fraud committed by a former employee, including establishing and managing an internal investigation, reporting to law enforcement authorities and advising on recovery.
- a global technology and social media company in respect of an internal investigation prompted by a whistleblower raising concerns regarding the organisations technical and organisational security arrangements.
- a software provider operating in the education sector regarding a fraud committed by a former employee, which involved the employee doctoring medical information to obtain a death certificate by fraudulent means, and subsequent investigation by the Garda National Economic Crime Bureau.
- a number of regulated financial services providers in respect of the Central Bank of Ireland’s administrative sanctions procedure.
- a global bank in a series of multi-billion, multi-jurisdictional disputes arising from the Bernard Madoff Ponzi scheme fraud.
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