Criminal defendants and the victims of misconduct often retain specialized counsel to protect or pursue assets held in the United States or elsewhere. In the past, efforts to secure assets held by others were frequently frustrated by secrecy laws making it easy for parties to conceal the ownership of assets in certain jurisdictions, including the United States, by utilizing shell companies and nominee directors and by transferring assets without having to report the transactions to the authorities. These laws, however, are gradually changing. Many jurisdictions, under pressure to increase transparency, are rolling back secrecy provisions. There are now more opportunities for concealed assets and beneficial owners to be identified and for legal disputes to arise.
At the Treanor Law Firm, we have many years of experience protecting and recovering hundreds of millions of dollars in assets for clients, whether through advocacy in criminal cases or by means of civil litigation. For example, in recent years, Tim Treanor, working with co-counsel, recovered for FIFA and other world football (soccer) organizations more than US$200 million through remission that was stolen by corrupt football administrators and their media and marketing partners. The Treanor Law Firm will work with you to recover assets from others by various means, including seeking to seize bank accounts, petitioning for orders of restitution or for the distribution of forfeited funds and property through remission or restoration, filing third-party claims in ancillary proceedings, or through affirmative or defensive civil litigation.