Corporate fraud, investigations and asset recovery update

Our latest fraud update has been published.  Click here to download a pdf. It contains articles on the following:

• Herbert Smith’s guide to post-revolution asset recovery
• Inexpensive remedies at any price? The issues surrounding ‘DIY freezing orders’
• Results of voting at Herbert Smith event “The European Account Preservation Order Regulation – what impact will it have and should the UK opt in?”
• Security For Costs: make no promises and tell me no lies — Dubai Islamic Bank v PSI Energy Holding Company BSC and Ors [2011] EWCA Civ 761
• Judgment debtor escaping the arms of English jurisdiction? Joujou v Masri [2011] EWCA Civ 746
• Court of Appeal rules that identity of employees making money laundering reports can be redacted when disclosing documents in Shah and another v HSBC Private Bank (UK) Limited [2011] EWCA Civ 1154
• A view from Hong Kong
• Free-standing freezing injunctions in the Cayman Islands – Time for legislative change? VTB Capital PLC v Konstantin Malofeev and Others
• Accessing Offshore Trust Assets: equitable execution over the power of revocation Tasarruf Mevduati Sigorta Fonu v Merrill Lynch Bank and Trust Company (Cayman) Limited and Others
• The decision in Cadogan Petroleum Plc and Ors v Mark Tolly and Ors