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Raedas

Asset Tracing & Recovery (Investigations Agencies)

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Raedas

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Asset Tracing & Recovery (Investigations Agencies) - Global-wide

Band 1

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What the Team is Known For

Raedas is a specialist investigations firm widely recognised for its capabilities in asset tracing and enforcing judgments and arbitral awards. The firm has extensive experience in formulating asset tracing strategies across multiple jurisdictions, particularly throughout Latin America, the Middle East and the CIS.

Strengths

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  • Raedas offer tailored and focused input that dovetails effectively into complex and fast-moving matters. Their strategic sense is excellent; they never take their eye off the bigger picture. Across all levels of the team, they offer excellent and prompt service.

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  • Raedas is great at human intelligence and very good at providing timely and impossible to find information.

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  • Raedas is intelligent and thoughtful. The team does not just blast in but rather thinks about the right way to approach a problem and that usually leads to better results.

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  • Raedas has a proactive approach and a willingness to go the extra mile. The team is very easy to collaborate with and produces high-quality work products.

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Notable Practitioners

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  • Band 1Joana Rego
    Band 1Joana Rego

    Joana Rego

    Joana Rego is a co-founding partner at Raedas and a thoroughly experienced investigator. Rego regularly coordinates with legal counsel, PR, third-party funders and other intelligence operatives in high-stakes evidence-gathering exercises.
    • Joana is one of the top in asset tracing and recovery, and is well regarded.

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    • Joana Rego is outstanding. She is able to move adeptly across jurisdictions and dispute resolution mechanisms, and goes directly to the heart of the matter.

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    • Joana is a very serious operator, results-driven and is thought highly of.

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    • Joana Rego is at the top of the field.

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  • Band 1Nicholas Bortman
    Band 1Nicholas Bortman

    Nicholas Bortman

    Nicholas Bortman focuses on Middle East work, with particular expertise in disputes involving allegations of corruption. His clients include high net worth individuals, corporates and sovereigns.
    • Nicholas is very well regarded.

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    • Nicholas is one of the top in the asset tracing and recovery field and has a good detailed knowledge.

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    • Nicholas Bortman is an impressive and sophisticated operator.

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    • Nicholas is highly client-oriented.

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  • Band 2Isabel Asquith
    Band 2Isabel Asquith

    Isabel Asquith

    Isabel Asquith is an associate managing director in the Raedas team. As leader of the firm's sovereign disputes practice, she specialises in asset tracing mandates in the context of international arbitration award enforcement.

    • Isabel is very knowledgeable, particularly in respect to asset tracing and enforcement against sovereigns.

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    • Isabel Asquith offers sensible, grounded and commercially astute advice, proving responsive and consistently reliable to clients.

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    • Isabel is a rising star.

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    • Isabel is highly likeable and at the same time sophisticated. She is also easy to work with.

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  • Band 3Andrew Wordsworth
    Band 3Andrew Wordsworth

    Andrew Wordsworth

    Andrew is a highly experienced investigator with over 30 years in the field, known for handling complex, high-stakes international cases. His work spans supporting multinational corporations and private clients in sensitive matters, including corporate theft, political assassinations, cross-border murder investigations and intellectual property disputes involving advanced technologies.

    • Andrew is a veteran in the field of asset tracing and recovery, with a lot of experience and is easy to work with.

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Ranked Individuals at Raedas (4)

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