Your counterparty is abroad and not paying.We go where it is.
Unpaid goods, an unpaid construction bill, a joint venture that stopped distributing, an award nobody has tried to enforce. Your usual counsel say abroad is difficult; foreign lawyers bill by the hour with no view on the outcome. Within fifteen business days we tell you whether the claim is worth pursuing. If it is, we put counsel and enforcement agents in place where the debtor is — and on qualifying matters, a funder carries the fees.
Where your counterparty is, we have people
Every point is a local firm whose licence and track record we have checked — counsel, asset tracers, enforcement agents, funders. Once the claim is assessed we choose by where the assets are and what the dispute needs, and no one is introduced without your sign-off.
- Southern Cross Claims Finance (Sample · 示例) Sydney · Funder Sample: funder for Australian and New Zealand class actions and commercial claims.
- Paulista Contencioso Advogados (Sample · 示例) São Paulo · Local counsel Sample: STJ homologation of foreign awards and South American commercial litigation.
- Mainz Asset Intelligence GmbH (Sample · 示例) Frankfurt · Asset tracing Sample: continental European asset tracing — registries, real estate and freezing-order support.
- Harbour Bridge Capital (Sample · 示例) Hong Kong · Funder Sample: funder focused on HKIAC arbitration and award monetisation, US$1m–10m per matter.
- Marunouchi Dispute Resolution (Sample · 示例) Tokyo · Local counsel Sample: counsel before the JCAA and the Tokyo District Court in cross-border matters.
- Chang’an Cross-Border Law Firm (Sample · 示例) Beijing · Local counsel Sample: Beijing cross-border arbitration and litigation team — case assessment and foreign counsel coordination.
- Straits Arbitration Counsel (Sample · 示例) Singapore · Local counsel Sample: SIAC-focused arbitration team covering South-East Asian infrastructure and trade disputes.
- Highveld Asset Tracing (Sample · 示例) Johannesburg · Asset tracing Sample: sub-Saharan asset investigation, locating mining and energy assets.
- Han River Recovery Services (Sample · 示例) Seoul · Enforcement agents Sample: recognition and enforcement of foreign judgments and awards in Korea, with preservation.
- Gulf Enforcement Partners (Sample · 示例) Dubai · Enforcement agents Sample: enforcement of judgments and awards before DIFC and onshore UAE courts.
- Temple Row Litigation Fund (Sample · 示例) London · Funder Sample: funder for Commercial Court and LCIA matters, with adverse-costs cover available.
- Hudson Commercial Disputes LLP (Sample · 示例) New York · Local counsel Sample: New York state and federal commercial litigation, recognition and enforcement of awards.
Three steps: what you do, what we do, how long
The order matters: first whether the claim can be won and collected, then who acts on it and whose money pays.
Assess
You: send the contract, the correspondence, any award or judgment, and whatever you know about the debtor’s assets.
We: score it on seven dimensions — merits, claim-to-cost, recoverability and the enforcement venue among them — and a lawyer reviews and signs a written view. If it is not worth pursuing, we say so.
How long: fifteen business days.
Match
You: agree the strategy and budget, and choose who acts.
We: propose firms at the seat, in court and where the assets are, with a division of work and a cost estimate; introduce them once you agree, and you contract with them directly.
How long: usually two to three weeks.
Fund & enforce
You: sign the funding or assignment agreement and help with evidence.
We: on qualifying matters a funder pays fees and costs; once the award or judgment issues, we seek recognition and enforcement where the assets are, with freezing relief alongside.
How long: arbitration usually 12 to 24 months; enforcement depends on the venue, and the assessment will say how long.
You are probably in one of these three situations
Composites of situations we see often, not specific clients.
A power plant in the Gulf, finished a year ago. The owner is withholding the final payment on quality grounds, and the contract says SIAC.
Your worry is sinking millions into fees with no idea how it ends. We first test whether an independent technical expert can dispose of the quality point, then bring in counsel in Singapore. A funder can carry the fees: repaid from the recovery if it wins, owed nothing if it loses.
You won the arbitration two years ago. Not a cent has been paid, and the assets sit in Europe and in offshore companies.
The New York Convention makes your award enforceable in more than 170 states; the hard part is finding the money. We trace the assets first, then file where they are most concentrated and the process is quickest, with freezing relief alongside so nothing moves.
An overseas customer is a year behind on invoices, has stopped answering, and seems to have changed its name.
We trace first: the parent, affiliates, bank accounts and assets country by country. If assets can be found, we sue or seek preservation in the most effective venue; if the debtor is already insolvent, we file the claim and fight for the best dividend available.
Send us the claim. We will tell you whether it is worth pursuing.
A first read costs nothing and commits you to nothing. Materials are held under NDA and seen only by the assessment team, and you have a written view within fifteen business days.