Bridging borders: China's role in cross-border asset recovery

I am a Cayman litigation and insolvency expert. I help international clients use Cayman procedures to enforce rights and recover assets. I am nearly always conflict free. I am co-founder of Claritas, a boutique Cayman Islands law firm focusing on litigation and regulatory law. I qualified as an English solicitor in 2006 and, after working at Freshfields and Peters & Peters, moved to Cayman in 2009. From 2009 to 2022, I practised in the Cayman offices of Appleby and then Harneys. In 2022, I co-founded Claritas. As Claritas is not part of a global organisation, I offer my clients independent, conflict free advice, whilst benefiting from years of experience gained in leading litigation firms in London and Cayman. Claritas works to a lean business model, which allows me to offer my clients value for money. I am committed to fair and flexible pricing and transparent communications with my clients, including about my fees. I will consider any pricing structure that is legal in the Cayman Islands, including conditional and contingent fees. I am an experienced advocate and frequently appear before the courts of the Cayman Islands. I have wide experience of fraud and asset tracing work (including freezing injunctions, disclosure orders and the appointment of liquidators and receivers), shareholder disputes and minority oppression. I have worked with some of the top law firms in the US, UK, Hong Kong, PRC, Latin America and Europe to obtain interim relief from the Cayman Islands courts in support of litigation and arbitration overseas. I enjoy working as a team with onshore counsel to co-ordinate the many moving pieces involved in cross border litigation. As a mother to two daughters, I am a passionate advocate for women in the legal profession and committed to breaking down barriers and creating opportunities to allow everyone to excel. Further details are available at www.claritaslegal.com.

Helen TEP is a partner in our litigation, insolvency and restructuring practice in Singapore. She specialises in complex commercial litigation, shareholder disputes, estate and private clients related disputes, fraud and investigatory cases and insolvency and restructuring matters. She is a native speaker of Cantonese and Mandarin and fluent in English. Helen has extensive experiences advising clients on cross-border litigation and handling high value disputes, covering a broad range of sectors, including financial services, energy and resources, insurance and high net-worth individuals. Helen has been listed as a Next Generation Partner in The Legal 500 Asia 2024 Guide. She has also been recognised as a Rising Star in China Business Law Journal's 2023-24 A-List of elite private practice lawyers in the Chinese market. She has also been named in the Asian Legal Business (ALB) Asia Super 50 Disputes Lawyers (2024), Offshore Client Choice List (2023 and 2024), Top 10 Offshore Litigators (2023 and 2024) and Asia 40 under 40 List (2023). Clients have praised Helen for being "extremely personable, super responsive and hard working" and for her "excellent legal knowledge and commercial sense." Helen holds a first class honours law degree awarded by The University of Hong Kong and Bachelor of Civil Law awarded by University of Oxford. She is admitted in Hong Kong (also as a solicitor advocate) and England & Wales. She is also admitted as a solicitor of the Eastern Caribbean Supreme Court (British Virgin Islands) and a registered Bermuda practitioner.

Andy is a partner at Han Kun's dispute resolution department, specializing in litigation and arbitration, cross border dispute resolution, fraud, asset tracing and recovery, foreign judgment and award enforcement, restructuring & insolvency, and in particular he has accumulated abundant experiences in handling corporate disputes as well as investment and financing disputes of private equity funds and assets management institutions. In terms of fraud, asset tracing and recovery, Andy is one of the PRC lawyers widely recognized by the international legal community. Over the years, he has represented Han Kun to author the China chapters for several international publications on fraud and asset recovery, including the Asset Tracing and Recovery Review, Chambers Global Practice Guides - International Fraud & Asset Tracing as well as the CDR Essential Intelligence: Fraud, Asset Tracing & Recovery, where Han Kun is the only law firm from China. He is the sole China member of ICC FraudNet, an international network under the auspices of ICC Commercial Crime Services and comprising over 80 independent lawyers who are the leading civil asset recovery specialists from over 70 countries and regions. Andy is exceptional in terms of his dispute resolution services, owing to his keen insights into the business needs of his clients. He maintains close communications with his clients and provides timely feedback, thus enabling his clients to fully understand all aspects of their cases and to make sure that the outcomes satisfy their business demands. He is skilled in advising on both overall planning and detail-oriented strategies in commercial dispute resolution matters through his clear thinking and forward-looking analysis. He is dedicated to protecting his clients' interests to the greatest extent through his deep legal knowledge and resourceful connections in China and worldwide. Based on his distinguished performance in dispute resolution, Andy has been rated by The Legal 500 as a highly recommended dispute resolution lawyer in the Asia Pacific for 2019 and 2021. Andy is an arbitrator of Shanghai International Arbitration Centre and Shanghai Arbitration Commission. About Han Kun Han Kun is a leading full-service law firm in China. Over the years, Han Kun has been widely recognized as a leader in complex cross-border and domestic transactions and compliance matters. Han Kun now has over 800 professionals located in Beijing, Shanghai, Shenzhen, Hong Kong, Haikou, Wuhan, Singapore and New York City, its working languages include Chinese, English, Japanese, Korean and German. www.hankunlaw.com