The ‘hardworking, tenacious, and immediately responsive’ department at Greenberg Traurig, LLP boasts a diverse breadth of experience in finance and banking disputes, advising private equity houses, hedge funds, asset managers, and banks. Corporate acquisition finance disputes and trade finance disputes are strengths of the firm. Masoud Zabeti is a ’master of strategy’ and leads a team that includes Mohammed Khamisa KC, a practitioner with experience in multi-jurisdictional cases with a fraud element.
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‘I have worked with the GT team for several years. The team is hardworking, tenacious and immediately responsive.'
‘Masoud Zabeti is a master of strategy and able to explain complex issues in simple terms making it easy to report internally and make decisions. Masoud together with Mohammed Khamisa KC have shown themselves to have an extraordinary understanding of the legal armoury available.'
Claire Broadbelt and Elizabeth Fox are experts in the field of asset recovery. They are extremely responsive, always display an excellent understanding of our legal options, are relentless at driving workstreams forward.'
'Key members of the team are Struan Clark, Harvey Rees and Irina Morozova.’
‘Amazing client base and more high profile litigation than one can shake a stick at.’
‘Masoud Zabeti is a great team leader. Katharine Bond is excellent at following up on things that need to be done.’
‘The team are very intelligent, proactive, commercially minded litigators. They stand out because they are always seeking to identify new ways of helping their client achieve their ends, not just going through the motions and waiting for something to happen.’
‘Masoud Zabeti is a force of nature - an intelligent, innovative, tenacious litigator. Would be one of my first choices if I were a client.’
Key clients
- Tradition Financial Services Limited
- Crane Bank Limited
- Bank Frick & Co A.G.
- JSC BTA Bank
Work highlights
- Acting for TFS in defending a multi-million-pound claim alleging dishonest assistance and fraudulent trading (under s.213 of the Insolvency Act 1986).
- Representing Ugandan bank, Crane Bank, and its shareholders, following special measures taken against our clients by the Central Bank of Uganda.
- Defending Bank Frick in a claim made by the Deposit Guarantee Fund for Individuals (DGF), as liquidator of National Credit Bank (NCB), (under s.423 of the Insolvency Act 1986).
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Masoud Zabeti