Anthony Riem

Practice Areas

Recognised as a leading lawyer in fraud investigation and litigation, asset recovery, banking litigation and commercial litigation, Anthony has deep expertise in handling complex cross-border disputes.

Strategically-minded and a source of astute, commercially-focused advice, his cases often involve the management and coordination of proceedings in several jurisdictions at any one time as well as the use of insolvency and overseas laws. Many of his cases have been high-profile as well as establishing new law.

He regularly obtains freezing, search, receivership and disclosure orders that result in identifying and securing assets that have been hidden across the globe.

He has also been instructed in many leading commercial litigation cases over the years, at both first instance and appellate levels and he has a body of cases where he has successfully had claims struck out at an early stage for clients he is defending.

Career

Anthony was both the Managing Partner and Senior Partner at PCB Litigation and following its merger with Byrne & Partners in April 2021 is now the Senior Partner at PCB Byrne.

Anthony is double Ranked in Band 1 by Chambers for Global-wide Asset Tracing and Recovery and Civil Fraud, named as a Leading Individual for Civil Fraud by the Legal 500 and a Global Thought Leader for asset recovery in Who’s Who Legal and is a member of Fraudnet, the top ranked global asset recovery network by Chambers.

In 2021, he was named as one of Britain’s most sought after lawyers by The Times following his successful representation of Tatiana Akhmedova in what is reported to be the UK’s largest ever reported divorce award and one of the 100 Hot Lawyers by The Lawyer Magazine for the deal by which Burford Capital became an equity stakeholder in the firm and provided financing for cases.

Professional Memberships

English member of FraudNet, the International Chamber of Commerce’s global network of asset recovery specialists, and founding member of the Commercial Fraud Lawyers Association.