UWOs three years on: underused and overpriced

Alison Geary (+44 (0)20 7872 1036, alison.geary@wilmerhale.com) is counsel, and Josef Rybacki (+44 (0)20 7872 1517, josef.rybacki@wilmerhale.com) an associate, in WilmerHale’s UK White Collar Defence and Investigations team.

Unexplained Wealth Orders were brought in three years ago with a fanfare of high hopes and positive press coverage, but their performance so far disappoints. Alison Geary and Josef Rybacki of WilmerHale consider the issues raised by cases so far.