Anthony Riem

Anthony is a partner and a recognised expert on international asset investigation and recovery, insolvency and international dispute resolution who provides creative and effective solutions. He acts for a number of government agencies, state owned companies, leading financial institutions and corporates across a range of industry sectors including banking, natural resources, and hedge funds. He has particular expertise in unwinding complex corporate structures and transactions used to hide assets, dealing with allegations of commercial blackmail, diversion of corporate opportunities, theft of assets, and breaches of directors’ duties. He also has experience in dealing with antiques fraud, money-laundering, and bribery and corruption. Anthony regularly obtains disclosure and freezing orders in England and abroad which often involves the management and co-ordination of proceedings in several jurisdictions at any one time. He has a particular expertise in executing and supervising search orders. Anthony has also defended a number of clients alleged to be involved in international fraud and corruption obtaining the discharge of freezing and restraint orders. A number of his cases have been high profile and ground-breaking both in England and abroad and reported in the legal press.

Trained Woodham Smith; qualified 1990; Philippsohn Crawfords Berwald 1990-2001, partner from 1996; partner Russell Jones and Walker 2001-04 (now Slater & Gordon (UK) LLP); partner PCB Litigation LLP 2005-2020, managing partner from 2019; senior partner PCB Byrne LLP 2021 to date.

Founding Member of the Commercial Fraud Lawyers Association, English representative of FraudNet, the International Chamber of Commerce’s global network of asset recovery specialists, and Member of the IBA Asset Recovery Group.