We help clients turn arbitral awards and court judgments into meaningful recoveries across civil and common law systems worldwide. Because collection matters as much as the result, we build recognition, enforcement and asset recovery strategies from the outset of a dispute, including for awards and judgments obtained without us advising on the underlying dispute.

Our clients include award creditors and debtors, sovereigns, corporations, high-net-worth individuals, and litigation funders in complex, cross-border disputes. 

Securing recognition and driving enforcement

We act as global lead or coordinating counsel in landmark matters, including some of the largest awards and judgments in history. We regularly handle issues involving sovereign immunity, piercing the corporate veil, the commercial use exception, and set-aside or annulment proceedings. 

We make strategic use of forum-specific discovery and enforcement tools to create leverage early, often before an award or judgment is rendered. Because we represent both creditors and debtors, we understand the tactics and vulnerabilities on both sides and build enforcement strategy from day one, not as an afterthought.

Tracing assets and converting awards into recoveries

We trace, freeze, seize, and recover assets concealed through fraud, corruption, money laundering, insolvency, and complex asset-protection structures, working with asset tracers, investigators, and local counsel worldwide. 

Our lawyers coordinate integrated recovery campaigns across jurisdictions and bring significant appellate capability to enforcement matters, including cases that proceed through the highest courts, supporting strategy from first filing through final recovery. 

Navigating sovereign and politically sensitive matters

We combine enforcement and recovery strategy with substantial in-house investigative experience. Many of our lawyers have held senior roles in government and key agencies and have deep experience engaging with law enforcement worldwide. This experience informs how we design enforcement strategies, including in politically sensitive and sanctions-related matters, working closely with colleagues in appellate, investigations, sanctions, government relations, and national security to handle complex risk factors.

By integrating enforcement, recovery, investigations and appellate strategy from the outset, we help clients pursue outcomes that are both legally durable and commercially meaningful.