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Martin S Kenney

Martin S Kenney

Global 2026

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Practice Areas

• Asset Recovery

• Commercial Litigation

• International Insolvencies

• High Value Divorce

• Family Succession Fraud

• Disclosure & Interim Freezing Orders

• Arbitration

Career

Martin Kenney is one of the world’s leading asset recovery lawyers, specialising in multi-jurisdictional economic crime and international serious fraud.

He has acted for international banks, insurance companies, individual investors, and other private and governmental institutions.

Based in the British Virgin Islands (BVI), Martin is founder and Head of Firm at MKS Law (previously Martin Kenney & Co), as well as a partner at MKS London in the UK.

MKS Law’s work lies at the intersection of cross-border insolvency, creditors’ rights and complex commercial litigation: WIRED styled the firm as among “the world’s sharpest fraudbusters”.

Leading a team of lawyers, investigators and forensic accountants, Martin is widely regarded as a ground-breaker in the use of pre-emptive remedies, multi-disciplinary teams and professional litigation funding in response to global economic crime, uprooting bank secrets and freezing hidden assets in multiple jurisdictions.

He is a practising solicitor advocate of the senior courts of England and Wales, the Eastern Caribbean at the BVI, at St Vincent and the Grenadines, and a licensed foreign legal consultant in the state of New York.

Martin is also a Visiting Professor at the University of Lancashire School of Law and Policing in the UK, and ranked among the world’s leading asset recovery lawyers by Chambers and Partners, as well as being a Lexology Index “Global Elite” Thought Leader.

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