Meet Our Team

The Veritas Advisory Group team brings together lawyers and financial investigation specialists who specialise in fraud-related matters and the recovery of misappropriated assets. The team is distributed across key European jurisdictions, providing direct access to local courts, law enforcement agencies, financial regulators, and banking institutions in the countries where fraud proceeds are most frequently held, transferred, or concealed. This structure enables coordinated legal action across multiple countries within a unified strategy – a decisive factor in cross-border fraud cases where speed and jurisdictional reach determine recovery outcomes.

Team Geography

Veritas Advisory Group maintains lawyers and partners in the European jurisdictions that are most frequently involved in cross-border fraud and asset recovery proceedings. The firm has direct legal presence in the United Kingdom, Germany, Spain, France, Italy, Cyprus, Estonia, Lithuania, and the Czech Republic. Each of these jurisdictions represents a major European financial centre, a common destination for fraud proceeds, or a key regulatory hub where recovery proceedings are regularly initiated. Beyond these core jurisdictions, the firm works with legal partners and local consultants across all remaining European countries. This extended network ensures that proceedings can be initiated in any European jurisdiction where the fraudster is domiciled, where receiving accounts are held, or where assets have been identified – without referral delays or loss of strategic coordination.

Why Geographic Coverage Matters in Fraud Recovery

Fraud proceeds rarely remain in a single jurisdiction. A typical cross-border fraud case involves funds moving through accounts in two, three, or more European countries within days of the initial extraction. Each jurisdiction requires local counsel with direct access to its courts, regulators, and law enforcement. Without pre-established legal presence in these jurisdictions, critical time is lost identifying, instructing, and coordinating local lawyers – time during which assets continue to move. The Veritas Advisory Group team structure eliminates this delay by maintaining operational readiness in all key jurisdictions before a case arrives.

Team Competencies

The team combines legal professionals with direct experience across the full range of procedural and institutional mechanisms required for fraud recovery in Europe. These competencies are not theoretical – they reflect the accumulated practice of over 100 resolved cases across multiple jurisdictions and fraud types.

Civil and Criminal Litigation

The team includes lawyers qualified and experienced in conducting both civil and criminal proceedings in European jurisdictions. Civil litigation achieves recovery through claims for fraudulent misrepresentation, unjust enrichment, breach of contractual and statutory obligations, and enforcement of court judgments. Criminal proceedings unlock investigative tools – production orders, account disclosure, cross-border judicial cooperation – that are essential for identifying fraudsters and tracing assets that civil proceedings alone cannot access. The team deploys both tracks in parallel where the case requires it.

Engagement with Police, Prosecution, and Regulators

Filing a criminal complaint or regulatory report is a procedural step. Ensuring that complaint leads to active investigation, asset identification, and cooperation with parallel civil proceedings requires direct engagement with police units, prosecution offices, and regulatory bodies. The team has practical experience engaging with national cybercrime units, financial crime divisions, public prosecution offices, and financial supervisory authorities across multiple European states. This experience enables effective presentation of cases to authorities in the format and evidentiary standard each institution requires.

Banking and Payment Institution Engagement

A significant proportion of fraud recovery actions involve direct engagement with banks and payment service providers – submitting recall requests, filing unauthorised transaction claims under PSD2, requesting account holder disclosure through court orders, and negotiating the release of frozen funds. The team has established working relationships and procedural familiarity with banking compliance departments and payment institutions across Europe. This enables faster processing of recall requests, more effective escalation of disputed claims, and direct communication channels that reduce institutional delays.

International Investigations and Asset Tracing

The team includes specialists in financial investigation and asset tracing who work alongside litigation lawyers to identify where fraud proceeds have been moved, held, or converted. Asset tracing involves analysis of transactional data, corporate structures, property registers, and financial disclosures across multiple jurisdictions. The results of asset tracing directly inform the legal strategy – determining where to apply for freezing orders, which entities to name as defendants, and which jurisdictions offer the highest probability of effective enforcement.

Asset Freezing and Confiscation Procedures

The team has practical experience applying for and obtaining asset freezing measures in European jurisdictions, including the European Account Preservation Order (EAPO) under Regulation (EU) No. 655/2014, national interim relief applications, and criminal confiscation procedures. Asset freezing is the most time-critical element of fraud recovery – it must be obtained before the fraudster dissipates or moves the identified assets. The team’s jurisdictional presence enables same-day filing of freezing applications in multiple countries where assets have been traced.

How the Team Works

The operational model is designed to combine local jurisdictional expertise with centralised strategic coordination. This structure ensures that each case benefits from both deep local knowledge and unified legal direction across all involved jurisdictions.

Local Lawyers in National Courts and Authorities

In each jurisdiction where proceedings are initiated, a local lawyer with direct court access and regulatory relationships manages the national-level proceedings. This includes filing and conducting civil claims, submitting criminal complaints, engaging with local regulators, and executing asset freezing applications. Local counsel operates within the procedural rules, language requirements, and institutional practices of their jurisdiction – ensuring compliance and effectiveness at each stage.

Central Team Coordination

The central team manages the overall case strategy, ensuring that actions taken in each jurisdiction are aligned and mutually reinforcing. In a cross-border fraud case, a civil claim in one country, a criminal complaint in another, and a freezing order application in a third must be coordinated in timing, evidentiary presentation, and strategic objective. The central team ensures this coordination, preventing the fragmentation that occurs when local lawyers in different countries operate independently without a unified strategic framework.

Unified Legal Approach Across Borders

The interaction between jurisdictions follows a single legal approach managed centrally and executed locally. Evidence gathered in one jurisdiction informs proceedings in another. Freezing orders obtained in one country are leveraged to support enforcement applications elsewhere. Criminal investigation outcomes in one state are used to strengthen civil claims in a different jurisdiction. This integrated methodology is the firm’s core operational advantage – it transforms what would otherwise be a series of disconnected national proceedings into a coordinated, multi-jurisdictional recovery campaign.

Why Veritas Advisory Group

The team’s value is defined by five characteristics that directly affect recovery outcomes. First, deep specialisation: the team’s core expertise is in fraud and asset recovery, with a proven track record and accumulated experience across this field. Second, jurisdictional presence: legal professionals are positioned in the key European financial jurisdictions where fraud proceeds are most commonly held and where recovery proceedings are most frequently required. Third, cross-border litigation experience: the team has a confirmed track record of managing cases that span multiple countries, courts, regulatory systems, and legal traditions simultaneously. Fourth, parallel deployment of civil and criminal mechanisms: recovery strategies combine litigation, criminal complaints, regulatory action, and asset freezing within a single coordinated approach. Fifth, institutional relationships: practical experience engaging with banks, payment providers, and financial regulators enables faster, more effective processing of recall requests, disclosure applications, and compliance complaints.