Secrecy orders - law and practice in asset recovery

Time is of the essence when seeking to locate and recover the fruits of fraud before they can be squirrelled away; and sealing orders, gagging injunctions and anonymisation orders mitigate the risk of bad actors being put on notice. Martin Kenney of Martin Kenney & Co Solicitors (MKS) unpacks these underused tools in the asset recovery toolkit, as applied in the United States, England and Wales.

Martin Kenney (+1 (284) 542 0817, mkenney@mksolicitors.com) is head of litigation practice Martin Kenney & Co (MKS), based in the British Virgin Islands. This article is reproduced with permission from the ICC FraudNet Global Annual Report 2024.

Time is of the essence when seeking to locate and recover the fruits of fraud before they can be squirrelled away; and sealing orders, gagging injunctions and anonymisation orders mitigate the risk of bad actors being put on notice. Martin Kenney of Martin Kenney & Co Solicitors (MKS) unpacks these underused tools in the asset recovery toolkit, as applied in the United States, England and Wales .