Raedas is pleased to announce its presence at the 2024 IBA Conference. Founding Partner Joana Rego will be joined by Directors Eric Wheeler, William Teddy and Eleanor Chuck in Mexico City from 15-20 September. Joana will be speaking on the panel ‘Asset...

Andrew Wordsworth and Nicholas Bortman, Co-Founding Partners of Raedas have once again been ranked as ‘Top Recommended’ advisers in the 2024 edition of Spears500, in the category for Security, Intelligence and Investigations. This marks the second...

Raedas has been recognised as a market leader in the Chambers and Partners 2024 Litigation Support Guide for the 6th consecutive year, maintaining a Band 1 ranking for the firm in both the Business Intelligence & Investigations and Asset Tracing &...

Raedas are pleased to announce the strategic hire of Eleanor Chuck as Director of Business Development & Marketing. Eleanor will be based in London, but working closely with Raedas’s offices in Washington DC and Dubai. Eleanor joins Raedas from A&O...

Raedas has opened an office in Dubai to service clients and coordinate matters throughout the Middle East, North Africa and Eurasia.   Led by senior director Matthew Walker, Raedas Dubai meets a demand for specialised investigative support on contentious...

Senior Associate Henry Edelstein spoke at ‘The Key to Lost Fortunes – Unlocking the Art of Crypto Recovery’, an event hosted by Brown Rudnick in conjunction with Crypto Fraud & Asset Recovery Network (CFAAR). Henry discussed how blockchain...

On Thursday 7 March, Raedas is hosting a breakfast panel followed by an interactive masterclass on defining and strengthening your voice at the Groucho Club. In the world of high-stakes disputes and business, is it the voice that shouts the loudest that wins...

Raedas hosted an invite-only breakfast briefing at a private members club in London on the 7th December. The get-together provided a unique platform for peer debate on the issues of ownership and control by designated persons in UK sanctions law, in light of...

With reputations and wealth to protect, UHNWIs must guard against the risks of AI. Andrew Wordsworth gives his expert view, in an article published by Spear’s Magazine, on the risks posed by deepfakes and artificial intelligence and what can be done....

Crisis strikes even the best prepared. The challenge is: how do you respond? In a seminar hosted by Raedas and Gibson Dunn in Washington D.C. Nicholas Bortman and Eric Wheeler (Raedas), Michael Diamant and Stephanie Brooker (Gibson Dunn), and Charles Bakaly...

Co-founding partner Nicholas Bortman writes for the Financial Times Adviser on the pivotal role investigators play in mitigating the impact of fraud. From unpicking financial crime from negligence, to understanding if money lost is gone forever – you...

Following the release of Chambers and Partners’ 2023 ‘Litigation Support Guide’, we have maintained our position as the only firm ranked Band 1 for Business Intelligence & Investigations’ (BI&I) and have achieved a Band 1 ranking for...

Co-founding Partner Joana Rego is interviewed by Commercial Dispute Resolution (CDR) for their Essential Intelligence: Fraud, Asset Tracing & Recovery 2023 publication. In this Q&A Joana lifts the veil on the role investigators play in contentious...

We are pleased to announce the strategic hire of Ekaterina (Kat) Rozenbaum to the newly created role ‘Head of Client Relations’ based in London. Kat joins Raedas from Mishcon de Reya, where she acted as Head of Business Development for the disputes...

On the 7 March, Raedas hosted their fourth annual Women in Disputes event ‘”Investigating wellbeing”: a practical discussion with nutritionist Holly Dunn’. Disputes work is by nature high pressure, fast paced, and stressful. Whether as...

On the 14 November, Partner Nicholas Bortman spoke on panel at Informa Connect’s ‘Asset Tracing and Recovery’ MENA conference in Dubai. Nicholas discussed fraud in the context of high value family disputes, with emphasis on the MENA region....

We are pleased to be named as a finalist in The Global Legal Post‘s “Women and Diversity in Law Awards” 2022 for “Business of the Year”. The award recognizes individuals, businesses, NGOs, and teams operating in and adjacent to the legal...

We hosted our second seminar this Autumn, “Tracing the blockchain: From fraudsters to sanctions dodgers – investigatory and legal remedies to locate and recover crypto” in partnership with CMS. Raedas’ Matthew Walker and Henry...

We hosted an in-person seminar and networking event on 29 September in London. In recent years the number of climate-related disputes has grown significantly, with likely precedent setting cases underway.  Jenna Burton (Director, Raedas), Nathalie...

Raedas have maintained their position as the only firm ranked Band 1 in Chambers and Partners’  ‘Litigation Support: Business Intelligence & Investigations’ (BI&I) guide 2022. Improving on last years’ position, all three co-founding...

On 27 May Raedas presented a webinar which discussed the key strategies and considerations necessary for tracing and recovering offshore assets. Raedas’ David Lawler chaired the panel, and was joined by  Tobias Vollmer, Alexander Shirtcliff (Blake Morgan...

Raedas are pleased to announce the senior strategic hire of Eric Wheeler, formerly Head of Business Intelligence for the Americas at The Risk Advisory Group. Based in Washington DC, Eric joins Raedas as a Director supporting the firm’s growing North...

To celebrate International Women’s Day 2022, we hosted our annual ‘Women in Disputes’ event on 8 March 8:45am at the AllBright Club in Mayfair. This year’s event discussed the power of storytelling as a personal and professional tool....

Director Jenna Burton was interviewed for The Arbitration Station’s first podcast of 2022. The podcast discusses key issues relating to commercial and investment arbitration. Hosted by arbitration experts Saadia Bhatty (Counsel, International...

Directors Isabel Asquith and Matthew Walker spoke on panel for ThoughLeaders4 London event.  Isabel discussed the Burning Questions of 2022 for asset recovery, fraud, recovery, and insolvency. Isabel outlined the implications of information entering the...

Raedas are pleased to announce the hire of forensic accountant and accounting expert witness David Lawler. David has over 30 years’ experience advising claimants and defendants in high profile disputes across a variety of sectors. Trained as a Chartered...

Founded in 2016 by Nicholas Bortman, Joana Rego and Andrew Wordsworth, Raedas is celebrating its fifth anniversary. The past 18 months have been challenging for businesses around the world, and no less so for the investigations sector. But we...

Raedas have maintained their Chambers and Partners’ Band 1 ranking for Litigation Support: Business Intelligence & Investigations (BI&I) for the third year in a row, and Band 2 ranking for Global Asset Tracing & Recovery (Investigations) for a...

Director Isabel Asquith spoke on panel at ThoughtLeaders4 webinar ‘Freezing the un-freezable: the world of unusual assets’ on 21 June 2021. Isabel outlined the various considerations and investigative strategies required when dealing with...

Following numerous high-profile corporate leaks, from the Panama Papers to the so-called Troika Laundromat, Russia is applying greater restrictions to its public record information – bucking the global trend for transparency. Investigators and legal counsel...

Founding Partner Joana Rego spoke at the Harvard International Arbitration Law Students Association (HIALSA) Workshop on 15 April 2021. The panel focused on the ‘Recognition and Enforcement of Awards in International Arbitration’.  Joana spoke...

Associate Director Matthew Walker was interviewed by TRT World on 15 April 2021 regarding the sanctions that the Biden administration has imposed on Russia. The sanctions follow allegations by the US of “harmful foreign activities ranging from election...

Tobias Vollmer was invited to speak on 9 Bedford Row’s webinar on 24 March 2021. Tobias discussed the investigative implications connected to International Arbitration in Kazakhstan, and the enforceability of claims and awards. The webinar can be...

To mark International Women’s Day we hosted our annual ‘Women in Disputes’ event. This year we celebrated resilience and leading in adversity. We heard from Felicity Aston MBE, the first and only woman to ski solo across Antarctica. The 1744km, 59-day...

Founding partner Joana Rego and director Jenna Burton spoke on panel at ThoughtLeaders4’s Fraud, Insolvency, Recovery and Enforcement (FIRE) webinar on issues connected to asset recovery against Sovereign states. The panel, which was also moderated by...

Founding partner Nicholas Bortman spoke on panel at ThoughtLeaders4’s Fraud, Insolvency, Recovery and Enforcement (FIRE) Middle East webinar on 27 October. Joining a panel of experts, Nicholas discussed key Asset Recovery issues across the region. A...

Raedas partner and director of non-profit FIND Nicholas Bortman is quoted in a recent article by Justice Rapid Response, alongside FIND director Louisa Barnett. Nicholas and Louisa co-founded FIND in 2020, a non-profit practice that investigates the financial...

In recent years facial recognition technology has moved from being a staple of science fiction to an everyday reality. Technology firms can now collect and process billions of images from the Web and deliver analysis virtually instantly to law enforcement...

Raedas have been awarded Chambers and Partners’ only Band 1 ranking for Litigation Support: Investigations this year and have achieved a Band 2 ranking for Asset Tracing & Recovery (Investigations) global – the highest position awarded to...

Raedas has launched a non-profit organisation called FIND to investigate perpetrators of human rights abuses, war crimes and environmental harm on behalf of victims, charities and NGOs. FIND focuses on corporate malpractice and economic crimes, including...

In the aftermath of COVID-19 businesses will need to have resilient defences against fraud and corruption and the ability to take effective action whenever those defences are breached. In this webinar Raedas founding partner Andrew Wordsworth, Mishcon  de...

Partner and co-founder Nicholas Bortman discusses the reality of investigations where contentious work and high stakes are the name of the game, predictions for a post COVID-19 world, and shares some anecdotes along the way. You can listen to the podcast,...

Founding partner Joana Rego spoke on panel at ThoughtLeaders4’s Fraud, Insolvency, Recovery and Enforcement (FIRE) webinar on 29 April. The topic discussed by the panellists was ‘Hot Topics in the New World Order’ in the context of fraud,...

As the spread of the coronavirus limits travel and shutters archives, investigators are looking to pandemic-proof repositories of evidence. One such source springs from the Foreign Agents Registration Act (‘FARA’), US legislation devised over 80 years ago...

As the novel coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic threatens economic stability and business as usual, will we see an increase in white collar crime as a direct consequence of the ‘new normal’: social distancing and isolation, limited direct oversight of...

As a firm with a global business and client base, we are deeply aware of the impact of COVID-19 for businesses and people across the globe. We are following local government advice and have adjusted our work practices. While travel is restricted for the...

How would you picture an offshore tax haven? A Caribbean island with sandy beaches and palm trees or snow, ice and sub-zero temperatures? While you would probably imagine the former, two new offshore zones in Russia now offer certain companies the same...

In celebration of International Women’s Day we are hosting a ‘women in disputes’ breakfast panel and networking event. Raedas partner Joana Rego will moderate a discussion with trailblazers Kate Bright, founder of UMBRA International Group...

On 13 February we held a webinar on investigators & strategic communications consultants: a vital collaboration in any litigation strategy. Raedas partner Nicholas Bortman and director Jenna Burton spoke alongside senior consultants Alex Just and Stuart...

On 6 December 2019, the United Nations Commission on International Trade Law (UNCITRAL) Working Group V (Insolvency Law) hosted a Colloquium in Vienna on civil asset tracing and recovery. The one-day Colloquium brought together over 100 attendees. This...

Andrew Wordsworth has been invited to present on ‘Preparing and defending your clients from raids in the former Soviet Union’ at the C5 International Disputes and Asset Recovery conference, 29 January 2020. The conference will be held in London....

Disputes today are more international and more diabolic. This is an era where a US$50 billion award is not only conceivable, it’s history. With stakes that high, every possible advantage has to be on the table. The investigative industry has been supporting...

Joana Rego spoke alongside co-panelists Gretchen King (co-founder of Vantage Intelligence) and Polly Sprenger (partner at Katten Muchin Rosenman) at the Offshore Alert conference in London on Monday 11 November. The lively discussion, which focused on the...

Founding partners Andrew Wordsworth, Nicholas Bortman and Joana Rego set up the specialist investigations firm Raedas in September 2016. As we celebrate our three year anniversary, we reflect on our growth and our Chambers Band 1 ranking with an eye on the...

Raedas has been ranked Band 1 in Chambers’ first ever guide to investigators in Litigation Support. In the category ‘Litigation Support: Business Intelligence and Investigations’, we are praised for being “highly respected experts in...

Partner Joana Rego spoke on panel at KNect365’s first Asset Recovery LATAM series in São Paulo today. The session, entitled “Judgement – But is the battle over?” discussed the challenges and solutions regarding asset tracing in Latin America. Joana...

We have published an article looking at the perils of recovery in India and promise in the country’s new bankruptcy law. In it we dissect one of the most expansive private investigations in India and reflect on lessons learned from this cautionary tale....

Speaking at an OffshoreAlert conference this week, Partner Andrew Wordsworth discussed the ways in which litigation funding is changing the role of the private investigator and transforming the industry’s traditional business model. He spoke alongside Masha...

Partner Joana Rego spoke on the ‘Fraud and Private Investigation’ panel this week, as part of the Quadrant Chambers’ event series on Fraud. The discussion reviewed critical issues surrounding the use of private investigations, GDPR, and the practice of...

This week Partner Joana Rego spoke at the Kazan Legal International Legal Forum on key issues surrounding enforcements in Russia. The session, moderated by Alina Kudriavtseva and Egorov Puginsky of Afanasiev & Partners looked at The Russian Enforcement...

It is increasingly difficult to enforce awards and judgements in a world where respondents’ assets are structured by sophisticated financial advisors and scattered across countries with different legal frameworks. This is especially true in Ukraine and...

Asset tracing is a cornerstone of our business. Here the search for the proverbial “paper trail” presents constant hurdles. To unlock the financial puzzle of our subjects’ assets, we not only have to find evidence but also obtain it in a proper...

One of the challenges we face assisting counsel with worldwide asset recovery is the need to identify and gather evidence without access to confidential data. While we use every (legal) investigative methodology possible, we also look for situations where...

This article is the second in a two-part series exploring the mechanics and motives of criminal investigations in Russia. How and why do powerful interests manipulate the Russian judicial system? In routine civil disputes, commercial litigation or low-stakes...

This article is the first in a two-part series exploring the mechanics and motives of criminal investigations in Russia. Criminal cases play a major role in commercial and political disputes in Russia. A range of law enforcement agencies and government bodies...

Imagine a country where several government officials have skimmed hundreds of millions of dollars from public contracts over the course of a decade. If we can directly link those dollars – today comprising cash in bank accounts, seafront villas, superyachts...

Social media is a rich source of evidence and intelligence in disputes. Whether trying to locate someone for service, identify a yacht in the Mediterranean or a villa in France or just confirm a relationship between two individuals, people let their guard...

Judges in the local ‘onshore’ courts of the Arabian Gulf are generally uncomfortable with witness testimony in litigation proceedings. In fact documentary evidence is often the only evidence that will be accepted. In a region where the line between public...

The controversy around the leaked ‘Trump dossier’ highlights the challenges of information gathering in Russia. But it also suggests a looming threat to the legal process as disinformation grows more sophisticated and likely to be deployed in...

We often sit in on debates among legal teams over the merits of filing a criminal complaint to put pressure on counterparties, an essential strategy in complex disputes. Such a tactic can carry risk for the claimant. However, in some countries, particularly...