IF YOU WERE A VICTIM OF FRAUD, HOW HARD OR EASY WOULD IT BE TO RECOVER YOUR ASSETS?

First you'd have to trace  them. Fraud is a borderless  industry and fraudsters  move fast and globally.

Fortunately since 1997  we have moved faster and,  through our network of  hand picked specialist fraud  lawyers, we have returned  hundreds of millions of  pounds to its owners.

If you suspect fraudsters  have already struck, it isn't  too late. Talk to us, The  International Fraud Group.  The people who believe  what's yours is yours.

Who We Are

The International Fraud Group  began in London in 1997.  Established by leading London  law firm, Mishcon de Reya  LLP, it was a specific response  to a client's needs. To recover  assets stolen and spirited away  into multiple jurisdictions.  An alliance of law firms was  created for the purpose. With  devastating success.

In the 19 years since, this  one-off alliance has become  a permanent global network,  the criteria for membership  the expertise and tenacity it  takes to defeat fraudsters.

Today we are an elite group  of hand picked lawyers across  24 countries that has recovered  hundreds of millions of pounds.

Fraud specialists, we are  equipped with everything it  takes to trace, freeze, seize,  secure and return assets.

Motivated - no matter the size  and the scale of the fraud -  by four tiny words: "What's  yours is yours". We don't rest  until it is.

What We Do

Fraud is a global industry.  Fraudsters are devious. They  cross borders, cover their  tracks and create trusts to  conceal assets. But however  complex unravelling a fraud  is, our aims are re-assuringly  simple: investigate the  matter, locate your money  or your assets, and return  them. For the simple reason:  "What's yours is yours".

Our weapons of choice  are the order and the  injunction. They are the  game changers without  which assets can be moved  and evidence destroyed.  We know how to convince  judges to grant them.

We can then pursue  fraudsters across jurisdictions  care of the global nature of  our network. IFG lawyers are  expert in the use of cross- border piggyback injunctions  specifically for this purpose.

We can shine a light on  trusts which fraudsters  have created, find out who  is pulling the strings and  expose their sham structures.

We can track the electronic  movement of money and,  with an order, compel the  institution that has handled  it to tell us where it has gone.  If it is still there, we will  freeze it.

Our approach is  unapologetically forceful.  When your assets have been  stolen, you want lawyers  who will work 24/7 to get  them back. But besides  speed and precision,  asset recovery is about  connections. Not only via our  own network but with other  investigators, with the courts  and with police forces. These  relationships mean we can  secure bespoke orders for  freezing assets, and seizing  and preserving evidence.  Fast. So that once again  what's yours is yours.

Where We Do It

Fraud and fraudsters have  no respect for borders and  jurisdictions. A network that  is serious about defeating  both can only do so if it is  equally global. IFG lawyers in  one jurisdiction will invariably  need the help of IFG lawyers  elsewhere. Each one is able  to rely on the others' expertise  in their local jurisdiction.

For this reason we now  have firms in 24 countries,  including those key offshore  jurisdictions where fraudsters  are particularly fond of hiding  stolen assets.

24 firms united by the  conviction that  "What's yours is yours",  "Ce qui est á toi est á toi",  "Was dein ist, ist dein",  "cio che e tuo e tuo",  "lo que es tuyo, es tuyo",  "O que é seu, é seu", "hva er ditt, er ditt".

OUR APPROACH IS  UNAPOLOGETICALLY  FORCEFUL. WHEN YOUR  ASSETS HAVE BEEN  STOLEN, YOU WANT  LAWYERS WHO WILL  WORK 24/7 TO  GET THEM BACK.

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