Masoud Zabeti
Greenberg Traurig, LLPFraud 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.
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‘Masoud Zabeti is a canny litigator and wily opponent.’
‘The team is outstanding. Led by Masoud Zabetti who has a wealth of experience in high stakes litigation. Masoud has put together a terrific team having picked the best from other firms. The teams are appropriately resourced, efficient and creative in terms of thinking how to achieve what the client wants.’
‘Masoud Zabetti is outstanding. Also, Elizabeth Fox is extremely able. Katharine Bond is a standout star at the associate level.’
‘Greenberg Traurig's banking litigation practice is unique in dealing with litigation of all sizes - from the largest multi-billion-pound claims to the smallest. The banking litigation team is technically sophisticated and strategically adept and is capable of managing (and winning) litigation at the highest levels.’
‘Masoud Zabeti - excellent lawyer and master strategist. The lawyer you want on your side when facing the largest disputes. Katharine Bond - incredibly experienced and extremely able lawyer. Katherine can deal with any kind of litigation a financial institution might face. Miten Vaghela - very able and extremely pleasant to work with.’
‘I have worked with teams led by Masoud Zabeti (shareholder) on a number of large matters, including a very complex banking fraud claim. The quality of individuals I have encountered has been uniformly excellent, from top to bottom. They are clearly able to handle complex banking cases efficiently and effectively.’
‘Masoud Zabeti: extremely positive and fights very hard for his clients. He has an excellent manner and excellent client handling skills. He is also very proactive, and is full of ideas about how to best advance his client's interests, even in the face of challenging situations. Katherine Bond (associate): Very pleasant to work with, highly responsive, efficient, and unflappable.’
‘Masoud Zabeti - A really exceptional litigator. He is highly intelligent and imaginative lawyer, always working to identify how best to advance his client's interests.’
Key clients
- Crane Bank
- Tradition Financial Services
- Bank Frick
Work highlights
- Acting for Crane Bank and its shareholders in relation to special measures taken against the bank by the Central Bank of Uganda as part of a corrupt scheme to take control of the Bank and misappropriate its assets.
- Acting for Tradition Financial Services, defending a multi-million-pound claim alleging dishonest assistance and fraudulent trading (under s.213 of the Insolvency Act 1986) brought by the liquidators of various companies which were used as vehicles for complex MTIC carousel fraud in the EUA carbon credit market in 2009.
- Defending Bank Frick in an asset recovery claim made by the Deposit Guarantee Fund for Individuals, as liquidator of National Credit Bank in Ukraine (NCB), due to alleged transactions defrauding creditors as part of a money laundering scheme devised by senior managers to extract assets from NCB.
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Masoud Zabeti