Martin S Kenney
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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.
Career
Based in the British Virgin Islands (BVI), Martin is founder and managing partner of Martin Kenney & Co., Solicitors (MKS). The firm’s work lies at the intersection of cross-border insolvency, creditors’ rights and complex commercial litigation.
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 & Wales and the Eastern Caribbean at the BVI and at St Vincent & the Grenadines, and a licensed foreign legal consultant in the state of New York. He is also a Visiting Professor at the University of Central Lancashire School of Justice, and ranked as a Who’s Who Legal's global elite Thought Leader.
Professional Memberships
Co-founder, ICC FraudNet.
Publications
Regularly publishes OpEds, comment pieces and blogs for general media and sector-specific outlets.
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Litigation Support
Martin Kenney is the founding and managing partner of the firm. He is qualified as a BVI and English solicitor advocate, a New York foreign legal consultant and a barrister and solicitor of the Supreme Court of British Columbia. "Martin is cut from a different cloth. He is incredibly detail-oriented. Martin is, to me, a very unique resource. He's fantastic," enthuses one source, who adds: "Martin has built relationships all over the world. He has links everywhere."
Articles, highlights and press releases
5 items provided by Martin Kenney & Co. Solicitors
OPINION | ECJ ruling on UBO registers ‘victory for common sense’
Martin Kenney welcomes a decision by the European Court of Justice that open beneficial ownership registers – sometimes called open UBO registers – are incompatible with the right to privacy. Unlimited transparency isn’t necessarily effective in the battle against economic criminals, he warns.
Martin Kenney & team recognised as ‘gold standard’ in asset recovery
High praise for MKS team from Who’s Who Legal in new rankings
Martin Kenney appointed Visiting Professor at top UK School of Justice
• Leading fraud lawyer Martin Kenney appointed Visiting Professor at UCLan • Veteran Canadian attorney Martin Kenney will work directly with students from School of Justice
Will the U.K.’s new Economic Crime Act really help crack down on illicit wealth?
There are concerns that inherent loopholes will restrict the act’s effectiveness and fall short of what transparency campaigners have long been demanding, writes Martin Kenney for The Toronto Star.
HMRC veteran wins Martin Kenney prize for study of financial investigation
Martin Kenney & Co., Solicitors, a leading asset recovery litigation practice based in the BVI, is delighted to announce that veteran financial investigator, Laurence Howland, has been awarded the second Martin Kenney Award for Outstanding Contribution to the Study of Financial Investigation.
OPINION | ECJ ruling on UBO registers ‘victory for common sense’
Martin Kenney welcomes a decision by the European Court of Justice that open beneficial ownership registers – sometimes called open UBO registers – are incompatible with the right to privacy. Unlimited transparency isn’t necessarily effective in the battle against economic criminals, he warns.
Martin Kenney & team recognised as ‘gold standard’ in asset recovery
High praise for MKS team from Who’s Who Legal in new rankings
Martin Kenney appointed Visiting Professor at top UK School of Justice
• Leading fraud lawyer Martin Kenney appointed Visiting Professor at UCLan • Veteran Canadian attorney Martin Kenney will work directly with students from School of Justice
Will the U.K.’s new Economic Crime Act really help crack down on illicit wealth?
There are concerns that inherent loopholes will restrict the act’s effectiveness and fall short of what transparency campaigners have long been demanding, writes Martin Kenney for The Toronto Star.
HMRC veteran wins Martin Kenney prize for study of financial investigation
Martin Kenney & Co., Solicitors, a leading asset recovery litigation practice based in the BVI, is delighted to announce that veteran financial investigator, Laurence Howland, has been awarded the second Martin Kenney Award for Outstanding Contribution to the Study of Financial Investigation.