Asset Tracing & Recovery (Investigations Agencies) - Global-wide
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What the Team is Known For
The enforcement and asset recovery team at Omni Bridgeway is particularly strong on enforcement of arbitration awards against sovereign and semi-sovereign bodies. It is well equipped to drive the whole process, from funding high-value awards with cross-border implications to tracing and attaching assets for enforcement of ICC and other arbitration awards.
Strengths
Omni Bridgeway stands out for its persistence and a deep understanding of complex recovery processes.
Omni Bridgeway has deep, hands‑on expertise in complex, cross‑border enforcement. What truly distinguishes them is their intelligence‑led approach to identifying targets and pressure points, paired with creativity and a clear focus on commercial outcomes rather than process for its own sake.
Omni Bridgeway stands out for their determination to pursue the matter to its conclusion, when many other entities would have given up and walked away. The agency has strong general knowledge of the matter and of the different legal systems across jurisdictions in Africa and Europe.
Omni Bridgeway has a global perspective, is very professional and highly experienced when it comes to the enforcement of judgements and awards.
Notable practitioners
Jurriaan Braat is a managing director and partner responsible for Omni Bridgeway's legal enforcement team. Braat is based in the firm's Geneva office, and advises clients on assessing and coordinating litigation and enforcement proceedings against corporations and sovereign states.
Jurriaan Braat is a strong legal brain at Omni Bridgeway and he knows the landscape not only in France but in Switzerland, the UK, the Netherlands and globally. He has a superb 360-degree view in asset recovery and knows how to navigate multiple proceedings from one jurisdiction to the other, and he is a very strategic and excellent negotiator.
Jurriaan Braat is very experienced and very commercially-minded. He is a real pleasure to work with.
Jurriaan Braat showed an unwavering commitment and determination to achieve a successful resolution on our behalf. It has been a pleasure working with him.
Jurriaan is very sophisticated and a pleasure to work with.
