Money does not have to travel far, or through anything elaborate, to become hard to recover. A single account and a few days of delay will often do it.
We deliver resolute, trial-ready courtroom advocacy to freeze funds, unmask wrongdoers, and claw back your wealth.
Assets are sometimes hidden behind trusts, foundations or nominee companies. Just as often, in our experience, they are moved through an ordinary bank account in an individual’s own name. Either way the questions are the same: where has the money gone, who helped move it, and what is left to recover.
Experiencing a major financial fraud is a direct threat to your balance sheet, corporate liquidity, and investor trust.
Whether you’re confronting a dishonest fiduciary, a multi-million-pound corporate embezzlement scheme, or an international investment fraud, allowing recovery actions to stall in passive negotiations gives fraudsters the exact window they need to shift funds across borders, layer transactions, or permanently dissipate your capital.
Standard offshore law firms approach civil fraud and asset recovery with a slow, administrative mindset. They treat complex corporate espionage or systemic embezzlement as routine accounting discrepancies, trapping your recovery strategy in endless loops of polite, defensive correspondence with counterparty representatives, or waiting passively on slow-moving institutional protocols.
This caution runs up massive billable hours while your stolen assets are actively laundered through shell companies or moved completely beyond the reach of the courts.
At Sinels, we treat civil fraud and asset recovery as serious litigation. Led by Philip Sinel, our advocates operate with a disciplined strategy that prepares for trial from the outset. We strike without warning, bypassing administrative delays to exploit the full legal armory of the Royal Court of Jersey. We target the soft underbelly of the fraud network, deploying rapid interim remedies, such as ex parte freezing injunctions and sweeping disclosure mandates, to lock down assets instantly and shift the tactical leverage entirely back to you.
Freeze stolen funds, compel third-party asset disclosure, and reclaim your capital.
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Our Strategic Fraud & Asset Tracing Framework
Domestic & Worldwide Freezing Injunctions (Mareva Relief)
We can obtain rapid, heavy-hitting ex parte freezing orders and arrêt entre mains (interim asset attachments) to instantly lock down local bank accounts and realisable property.
We secure these emergency orders on short notice without prior warning to the fraudster, freezing localised funds and capturing assets held by third-party financial intermediaries or trust companies.
This permanently neutralises the wrongdoer’s ability to layer or dissipate funds, preserving the core asset pool before the substantive claim is even served.
Bankers Trust Disclosure Mandates
Our team compels innocent third parties, such as major offshore banks, trust administrators, or corporate service providers, to immediately surrender critical financial intelligence.
Our advocates leverage Jersey’s highly flexible disclosure frameworks to secure missing transactional links, crack concealment boundaries, and uncover the true identities of anonymous wrongdoers. This dismantles corporate anonymity, mapping out the precise trail of diverted capital to launch immediate targeting vectors against final asset repositories.
Proprietary Tracing & Trust Unraveling Litigation
We execute sophisticated equitable tracing actions to follow stolen capital through multi-layered discretionary trusts, Jersey foundations, and complex cross-border structures.
We methodically litigate to establish constructive trusts, pierce nominee veils, and establish that underlying asset structures are shams or thin screens used to shield fraud. This bypasses standard corporate shields, allowing you to claw back assets directly from third-party recipients and enforce your ultimate property rights over the fund pool.
Why Corporate Victims and High-Net-Worth Individuals Instruct Sinels
Sinels is a litigation firm with a thirty-year track record in Jersey’s most demanding civil fraud, asset-tracking, and corporate governance disputes. We operate completely free of the institutional conflicts of interest that prevent large, full-service offshore practices tied to major banks, Tier-1 institutional trustees, or wealth managers from acting. We don’t write passive advisory notes or seek timid settlement compromises; we build the evidence, take the points that are actually available, and are ready to run the matter to a hearing if it comes to that.
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Frequently Asked Questions About Fraud & Asset Tracing
What immediate emergency remedies does a fraud victim have in Jersey to prevent fund dissipation?
The Samedi Division of the Royal Court offers exceptionally robust interim weapons to freeze stolen wealth.
We can apply ex parte (without notice to the defendant) for domestic or worldwide freezing injunctions (historically known as Mareva injunctions).
Concurrently, we use the unique Jersey customary law remedy of arrêt entre mains, which serves an interim attachment notice directly onto local banks or fund administrators.
This instantly locks down the target accounts, exposing the intermediary to severe contempt of court liabilities if any capital is moved.
Can a victim trace and recover assets that have been transferred into a Jersey discretionary trust?
Yes. While Jersey trusts are protected by local statutory frameworks, they are not an absolute shield against fraud.
Under Jersey customary law and the Trusts (Jersey) Law 1984, if it can be proven that a trust was funded using stolen assets, the transfer is void or voidable, meaning the assets do not legally belong to the trust.
We deploy advanced forensic asset tracking to assert proprietary claims, establish constructive trusts over the assets, or prove that the structure is a sham, forcing trustees to deliver the capital back to its rightful owner.
How do Jersey courts handle disclosure against innocent third parties like banks?
Under Jersey law, if an innocent third party has become inadvertently entangled in the wrongdoing of another, they can be legally compelled to provide full disclosure.
We use Norwich Pharmacal and Bankers Trust disclosure orders to achieve this.
Jersey courts are highly pragmatic and are frequently prepared to go further than English common law to assist victims, ordering the immediate surrender of account opening files, bank statements, and transactional logs to trace stolen capital.
