International Asset Recovery: Investigations

In this session, attorney Eugene Becker from Becker Law and Miller Thomson partner Douglas Best consider what substantive differences between the US and Canada in asset investigations. Mr. Becker and Mr. Best begin by discussing trash pulls, surveillance, pretext inquiry, public searches, private proprietary searches, and lawyers’ duties. Next, they delve into pre-action proceedings and the availability within various jurisdictions, including New York, Ontario, Canada- Federal, Florida, England, France, Barbados, Cayman Islands, Singapore, and the new John Doe Norwich Pharmacal. The presentation concludes with explaining the Mareva injunction, the Anton Piller jurisdiction discovery available from 28USC §§1782 and 1783.

Learning Objectives:

I.    Understand judicially available investigations 

II.   Discuss how to utilize judicial investigations 

III.  Establish a focused and efficient recovery