Martin Shobbrook > Greenberg Traurig, LLP > London, England > Lawyer Profile

Greenberg Traurig, LLP
THE SHARD, LEVEL 8
32 LONDON BRIDGE STREET
LONDON
SE1 9SG
England

Work Department

Litigation

Position

Shareholder

Career

Martin Shobbrook has spent his entire legal career focusing on matters related to civil fraud, representing claimants or defendants in substantial cases. His clients include private individuals, companies and trusts and state Governments. For claimants, his experience lies in multi-jurisdictional asset-tracing enquiries often involving Court applications in multiple overseas jurisdictions. His defense work frequently involves high-profile civil proceedings where the defendant is also under investigation by criminal, tax, and other regulatory authorities in the UK or overseas. Noting that fraud does not respect international borders, Martin has considerable experience (drawn from acting for both claimants and defendants) in working with lawyers in several jurisdictions at the same time and is particularly adept at devising and executing strategies across a wide number of jurisdictions at the same time.

Martin has experience of investigating fraud in a wide number of sectors including financial services, metals trading, telecoms, hotel and leisure, metal production, pensions and recruitment.

Martin is very familiar with all areas of the English Court’s injunctive remedies, including freezing orders and search orders (including those directed at non-parties), computer imaging orders, document delivery orders and passport orders. Martin also has considerable experience in acting as the Court appointed “Supervising Solicitor” for the purposes of the execution of search orders and the like.

Capabilities
Litigation
UK Civil Fraud & Business Disputes
Contentious Insolvency

Admission to Practice
England and Wales

Languages

English

Education

  • LL.B., University of Plymouth

Lawyer Rankings

London > Crime, fraud and licensing > Fraud: civil

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 KaragozKatharine Bond, Bethany Histed and Stephanie Silverston. ‘First-rate litigatorMasoud Zabeti was promoted to shareholder in early 2024.