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Hogan Lovells International LLP

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Hogan Lovells International LLP is a ‘leading civil fraud firm with unrivalled experience in succeeding on bringing claims for recoveries on complex frauds’. The practice ‘has a strong and experienced team dealing with all aspects of civil fraud’ as well as particular strength in matters pertaining to the banking sector or CIS jurisdictions, including Ukraine, as well as Libya and Cyprus, among others. Practice head Michael Roberts is ‘a superb litigator’ and has secured prominent victories in matters involving freezing orders, cross-border insolvency and international asset-tracing. An ‘exceptionally able lawyer’, Liam Nadoo specialises in proceedings involving fraud, bribery, corruption, and human rights, and Chris Hardman is a specialist for proceedings in the banking sector. Rebecca Wales is a further key member of the team, as is ‘very clever litigator’ Oliver Humphrey.

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Testimonials

Collated independently by Legal 500 research team.

  • ‘An excellent all-round, full service, team, with strength in depth and in numbers. They can react and adapt to the biggest or smallest case rapidly and deploy the right level, numbers and skills.’

  • ‘Michael Roberts is a superb litigator who leads from the front and combines excellent strategy and vision with detailed knowledge of the facts, which is very unusual in such a senior partner.’

  • ‘Oliver Humphrey is an excellent hand-on relatively junior partner. He fights hard for his clients, makes excellent strategic decisions, and is a very clever litigator. Liam Naidoo is a rare combination of highly intelligent lawyer, superb team leader and excellent client handler.’

  • ‘Hogan Lovells are a very professional team with exceptional creativity and resourcefulness.’

  • ‘Leading civil fraud firm with unrivalled experience in succeeding on bringing claims for recoveries on complex frauds, particularly from CIS.’

  • ‘Richard Lewis leads a standout team and gives you complete confidence in the strategy and how to get to the desired outcome. He manages expectations well and genuinely understands client pressures and objectives.’

  • ‘A niche practice with real insight into commercial issues.’

  • ‘HL has a strong and experienced team dealing with all aspects of civil fraud.’

  • ‘Liam Naidoo is an exceptionally able lawyer who gets to the heart of an issue in a no nonsense way.’

  • ‘Great turnaround times; first class advice; friendly service; good relationships.’

  • ‘Liam Naidoo is excellent. He provides commercially astute and legally sound advice.’

Key clients

  • Liquidators from Grant Thornton UK LLP
  • JSC CB PrivatBank
  • Gramercy Funds Management LLC
  • Luc Argand
  • Kazakhstan Kagazy Plc and others (the KK Group)
  • Eurasian Natural Resources Corporation (ENRC)
  • FM Capital Partners Ltd (FMCP) and its client Libya Africa Investment Portfolio (LAP)
  • Sergiy Taruta and Dargamo Holdings Limited
  • JSC BTA Bank

Work highlights

  • Acted for Eurasian Natural Resources Corporation (ENRC) in its high profile claim against ENRC's former solicitors, Dechert and former Dechert partner Neil Gerrard, and in related litigation against the UK Serious Fraud Office.
  • Acted for JSC CB PrivatBank in its high profile claim against its former shareholders, Igor Kolomoisky and Gennadiy Bogolyubov, and six companies alleged to be secretly owned by them.
  • Ongoing management of a series of cross-border proceedings on behalf of Gramercy Funds Management LLC, in respect of notes issued by Ukrainian farming conglomerate UkrLandFarming Plc, and its subsidiary, Avangardco Investments Public Limited, and a related scheme of asset dissipation.

Lawyers

Leading individuals

Chris Hardman

Hall of fameHogan Lovells US LLP

An award-winning commercial litigator, Chris handles some of Hogan Lovells' most significant and complex litigation mandates. Chris has substantial experience of co-ordinating major, multi-centre and multi-discipline disputes, which has led to him being acknowledged as 'strategically remarkable.' Chris's work by its very nature is international and he has an unparalleled hands-on track record of managing the largest cross-border matters, often with a fraud-related element.

Next Generation Partners

Rebecca Wales

Hogan Lovells US LLP

Rebecca Wales is an experienced commercial litigator who has acted in some of the most complex and high value international disputes recently before the English Courts. She has been involved in several ground breaking interim applications, broadening the scope of freezing orders and pushing the boundaries of injunctions. Rebecca has significant experience of applications for pre-emptive and interlocutory relief, including freezing orders, search orders, third party disclosure orders and orders for cross-examination and committal. She was also involved in obtaining the largest receivership order ever granted by the English court.

Practice head

The lawyer(s) leading their teams.

Michael Roberts

Other key lawyers

Chris Hardman, Rebecca Wales, Liam Naidoo, Richard Lewis, Oliver Humphrey

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