Global Asset Recovery and Special Situations is a specialized, outcome-based practice helping corporate and private clients navigate adversity, preserve, and recover assets and value in complex operational theatres. Our singular focus is on contentious situations and business conflicts. Our solutions are biased for constructive and fair settlements minimizing hostility, risk, and cost.

Our special situations expertise covers:

• Business conflicts
• Business fraud and dishonesty
• Asset dissipation
• Injunctions/interlocutory measures
• Non-performing loans
• Global enforcement and monetization of judgement and awards
• Undue regulatory pressure
• Forced market exits
• Nationalizations
• Hostile takeovers
• Recovery of illegally blocked funds
• Reputation protection

Our Global Asset Recovery and Special Situations team consists of highly experienced professionals with backgrounds in investigations, law, finance, strategy, operational management, and restructuring. We regularly collaborate with our market-leading Disputes and Investigations, Restructuring, and Corporate Finance practices and draw on deep local knowledge through A&M’s network of 90+ offices as well as on world-class expertise of our industry practices.

Our solutions:

• Cross-border recovery of assets and value in the context of commercial, corporate, investment, and sovereign conflicts and disputes
• Settlement of business conflicts complicated by loss of trust, fraud, dishonest behavior, or breach of laws
• Value-preserving exits from countries, investments, and partnerships minimizing hostilities and risks
• Response to and proactive management of potential or emerging issues putting foreign investments at risk
• Reputation recovery

We believe in bespoke solutions to special situations as each one is unique and is by definition very sensitive. Our work often includes:

• Investigation, thorough diagnostics, scenario, and contingency planning
• Advising on immediate steps necessary to stabilize and stay on top of the situation
• Developing holistic special situation strategies to preserve/recover value and minimize risk
• Serving as an experienced command center: bringing together and managing multidisciplinary teams of experts for coordinated and often multi-jurisdictional campaigns and controlling the cost of effort
• Representing the client in negotiations with various stakeholders to resolve the situation or issue
• Coordinating communication in special situations

We also regularly work in advisory roles (often, alongside legal counsel and other client advisors) contributing our experience, investigative expertise, and intelligence-based insights to co-create and implement integrated conflict resolution and recovery strategies.