Experienced on both the claimant and defendant side, Greenberg Traurig, LLP represents an international array of clients in commercial litigation, ranging from fraud and breach of contract or duty claims to asset recovery and contentious insolvency proceedings. Global litigation practice head Masoud Zabeti’s multijurisdictional disputes practice spans the CIS region, the Middle East and major offshore financial centres. Kathryn Garbett and Claire Broadbelt lead the firm’s civil fraud and business disputes, Mohammed Khamisa KC boasts a diverse clientele, spanning various jurisdictions. Elizabeth Fox and Mehmet Karagoz are also active team members.
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Key clients
- Crane Bank
- Tradition Financial Services
- Bank Frick
Work highlights
- Acting for Crane Bank and its shareholders in relation to 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 in 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.
Practice head
The lawyer(s) leading their teams.
Masoud Zabeti