2015 Legal Awards

http://www.acquisition-intl.com/2015-legal-awards M&A awards 92 LEGAL awards ~ Best for Investment Scamming Investigations - UK Nevyan is an award winning agency with over 20 years’ experience in the diverse field of asset identification and recovery for corporate and private clients. Simon Sutton provides us with an insight into the firm and the services it provides. Using extensive contacts and resources throughout the world, Nevyan have the capability of identifying an individual or company’s assets, specifically those that are hidden and protected by third party entities, such as Offshore Trusts or Foundations. We operate our business intelligence consultancy from offices based out of South-West London, and have affiliated offices in Amsterdam, Holland and Phoenix, United States. We work mainly for the corporate sector and high net-worth individuals who may have been the victim of an investment fraud or who may need evidence for Court in multiple jurisdictions. We recently worked for a South-African diamond company who had been the victim of a set of diamonds being stolen from them in a scammed meeting in London. The diamonds were worth in excess of £5m. We worked with the metropolitan police in London to have the perpetrators arrested and questioned, and we worked with the direct access barrister scheme to obtain quick Court injunctions and freeze orders on the diamonds to prevent them being moved. This case had a successful outcome and the client recovered their monies. We work for many law firms and our role is predominantly in research and asset tracing for presentation to Court. Therefore we work in line with PACE (Police and Criminal Evidence Act) and the Civil Act. The legal industry at present can be slow to react to complex fraud, especially when that fraud crosses multiple-jurisdictions. Criminal Law Firms and barristers definitely have a much stronger grasp of the nature of international and high-level, sophisticated frauds, but civil fraud lawyers can sometimes struggle with the complexities and find it challenging to profile the mind of the high-level criminal. The challenge for us arrives when the client prefers a civil pursuit of the monies in the High Court, and the lawyers are slow to react. Monies get moved and transferred and liquidated by high-level criminals with alacrity and the law firms are sometimes heavy-set and slow to respond. Our clients would like to have access to legal teams on the civil side that are more streamlined and prepared for the mind set of high level crime, in order that their processes and evidences can get to Court faster and more accurately, chasing on the tail of the criminals with more assertiveness. Company: Neyan Intel, associate of CNBI Solutions Name: Simon Sutton Email: [email protected] Web: www.nevyan-intel.com Address One Hardwick Square, London SW18 4AW Nevyan Intel