Katharine Bond > Greenberg Traurig, LLP > London, England > Lawyer Profile

Fraud is a key area of expertise for the banking and financial services litigation team at Greenberg Traurig, LLP. Its expertise ranges from acquisition finance and trade finance disputes to contentious financial services regulation and compliance matters, asset recovery, and insolvency litigation. ‘Exceptional litigator’ Masoud Zabeti heads the firm’s global litigation practice and is involved in banking disputes on an international scale. With extensive regulatory expertise, Matt Hancock advises both regulated financial services firms and individuals. Katharine Bond is an ‘extremely able lawyer’ and boasts a balanced claimant and defendant banking litigation practice, while Mehmet Karagoz focuses on fraud, internal investigations, and crisis management.

Greenberg Traurig, LLP‘s civil fraud practice has ‘some of the biggest names in civil fraud and the expertise to take on the largest cases’. The team routinely represents corporations and individuals from the retail, finance, investment, energy and real estate sectors in cross-border civil fraud matters. It is particularly experienced in multi-jurisdictional cases, and search and seizure orders; clients further benefit from the London group’s leveraging of litigation teams from the firm’s international network of 47 offices. The London civil fraud and business disputes practice is co-chaired by Kathryn Garbett, who is ‘one of the most experienced civil fraud litigators around’, and Claire Broadbelt, who acts for both claimants and defendants in high-value civil fraud cases before the English High Court. The second line of experienced practitioners includes Annabel Thomas, whose caseload frequently involves multiple jurisdictions and interim relief applications; longstanding civil fraud expert Martin Shobbrook, who has considerable experience in multi-jurisdictional asset tracing; Hannah Blom-Cooper, who heads the London contentious insolvency practice; and Elizabeth Fox, who handles matters involving fraud and misconduct allegations. Other names to note are Mehmet Karagoz, Katharine Bond, Bethany Histed and Stephanie Silverston. ‘First-rate litigator’ Masoud Zabeti was promoted to shareholder in early 2024.

Increasingly visible in the market following some notable hires in recent years, the ‘proactive and commercial’ team at Greenberg Traurig, LLP excels in defending individuals and entities across a wide array of contentious regulatory issues, as well as white-collar matters. Team head Matt Hancock has a ‘down-to-earth, pragmatic approach to difficult issues’, be it in relation to high-profile market abuse allegations or in the context of the regulatory rules under the Senior Managers Regime. Katharine Bond is ‘very supportive and hardworking’ in her efforts on behalf of senior individuals responding to regulatory scrutiny, including where it overlaps with employment issues.