Asset Tracing & Recovery (Investigations Agencies) - Global-wide
Band 2
What the Team is Known For
Founded in Dubai at the end of 2025, Veleda specialises in supporting clients through complex and often hostile dispute environments. The firm provides strategic dispute support, evidence gathering, and asset tracing and recovery, working across the full dispute lifecycle from pre-claim assessments of enforceability to post-judgment recovery execution.
Strengths
Veleda has a very qualified and knowledgeable team, and their size allows them to be super responsive and agile.
Veleda has impressed us with their capacity to respond fast, their professionalism, their astuteness, and in-depth knowledge of the field. The agency's level of services is very strong.
Notable practitioners
Ashley Messick, previously a partner and leader of the dispute consulting team at J.S. Held, founded boutique asset tracing and litigation intelligence firm Veleda in December 2025. Messick continues to advise sovereign award holders and investors on tracing and recovery of judgment debts.
Ashley has demonstrated incredible leadership and sophistication in her services.
Ashely is a real dynamo: very creative, full of ideas and if I need someone for asset tracing and recovery work, she is the first person I call.
Sebastian is a specialist in evidence gathering and analysis for fraud and asset recovery proceedings, with extensive experience across international investigations and intelligence work. Having worked with leading consultancies, a Big Four forensics practice and boutique dispute firms, he focuses on uncovering how complex fraud schemes are structured, identifying key witnesses and supporting effective recovery strategies.
Sebastian has demonstrated phenomenal customer service, sophistication, business knowledge and reliability in our interactions.
Sebastian is great, he is really competent and likeable, and has a Russia background. He is really well known and always on panels, and he is well regarded overall.
