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Aggressive, strategic recovery for corporates, businesses, private creditors, financial institutions and individuals — from pre-litigation negotiation through judgment enforcement and asset realisation.
Why this matters
A judgment in your favour is not the same as funds in your account.
Recovery is a multi-discipline exercise. The cause of action, the choice of forum, the security position, the counterparty’s asset map and the procedural calendar all decide whether a creditor sees a result — or carries a paper victory.
The firm’s recovery bench begins every brief with three questions: where are the assets, what is the realistic timeline, and what is the cost of stepping wrong.
— Recovery & enforcement bench
Services
Mandates are partner-led from intake. Engagements scope to a single matter, a project basis, or an ongoing retainer.
Phase 01
Strategic demand
A posture that opens settlement without surrendering enforcement leverage.
Negotiated settlements
Settlements that hold — and don’t prejudice further enforcement.
Asset tracing
Mapping the counterparty’s reachable assets before counsel speaks to the debtor.
Security & instrument review
Underlying loans, guarantees and collateral reviewed for enforceability.
Phase 02
Recovery litigation
Originating process drafted around the realistic route to attachment.
Commercial debt claims
Trade receivables, supply, services and inter-company exposures.
Loan & facility recovery
Term, working-capital and trade-finance facilities against borrowers and guarantors.
Forum & filing
Court, tribunal or arbitral seat chosen for speed, cost and the realistic route to attachment.
Phase 03
Enforcement proceedings
Conversion of judgment into collected funds, not paper.
Garnishee strategy
Which institution to attach first — and the order that follows.
Receivership
Appointment, supervision and disposal of secured asset estates.
Private treaty & auction
Structured realisation routes when the fastest path is not litigation.
Insolvency practice
Creditor positioning, voting strategy and dividend recovery.
Approach
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Who we represent
A representative — not exhaustive — list of the clients the firm accepts mandates from under debt recovery.
What success looks like
01
Where realistic, recovered value materially exceeds the creditor’s internally modelled write-down — driven by asset-tracing and structured settlement.
02
Disciplined demand and forum selection accelerate the date funds first move, not just the date judgment is entered.
03
Negotiated settlements that hold — even where the underlying relationship continues — without prejudicing enforcement leverage.
04
Every step is structured to withstand external audit, regulatory review and board-level scrutiny.
Bench on this matter
The named partners on a recovery file are the partners who run it. Associates assist; they do not replace.
Recovery & enforcement
Leads the bench’s enforcement strategy — contentious recovery for corporates, lenders and private creditors across sectors.
Asset tracing & realisation
Asset tracing, garnishee strategy and structured realisation. Counsel of choice on cross-state attachments.
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