Practices

Asset Recovery

Proven team representing states seeking to trace, freeze and recover the proceeds of corruption, or compensation for corrupt acts.

Why Cooley

  • Recover misappropriated public funds, bribes and compensation for corruption from public officials, their companies, trusts and associates 

  • Make claims for compensation against contractors that have paid bribes to win contracts or gain other advantages (and we advise on the termination or renegotiation of tainted contracts) 

  • Make claims to recover assets or compensation against third parties that knowingly handle the proceeds of corruption, or assist in the laundering of it 

  • Use insolvency remedies to take control of companies used to receive or launder the proceeds of corruption

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We value their sense of client service, their global commercial awareness and their strategic mindfulness.

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