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Martin Kenney & Co. Solicitors

Martin S Kenney

Tortola, British Virgin Islands

Litigation Support Guide 2021

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Ranked in : Asset Tracing & Recovery (Law Firms)

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Litigation Support

Asset Tracing & Recovery (Law Firms) - Global-wide

Band 3

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.

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"Martin has been very active in the BVI for the last 12 years or so," says an impressed market peer; "he really set up the firm and is good at putting together teams to achieve successful asset recovery results." Another interviewee adds: "What is most impressive about Martin is his vast knowledge, experience and expertise in the area of asset recovery relating to misconduct, fraud and money laundering. Although his practice is for English and BVI laws, he is familiar with legal situations in other jurisdictions too."

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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. The firm’s work lies at the intersection of cross-border insolvency, creditors’ rights and complex commercial litigation.

Today Martin is ranked among the world’s top dozen asset recovery lawyers worldwide by Chambers & Partners, and is considered one of Who’s Who Legal's global elite Thought Leaders.

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.

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.