An English-court freezing application needed documented evidence of the respondent's assets — property, corporate interests, and the means by which they might be dissipated. We located and evidenced each element to the standard that counsel required to proceed.
Counsel acting in English-court proceedings needed to support a freezing order application. A Mareva injunction requires more than an allegation — it requires documented evidence that there are assets which the respondent might dissipate and which are worth restraining. Counsel knew broadly what the respondent owned; what they did not have was evidence sourced and structured to a standard that would withstand scrutiny at the application hearing. The instruction was to produce exactly that, within a tight deadline.
We worked through the respondent's corporate and property footprint across the relevant jurisdictions, beginning with publicly accessible registers and building outward through lawful secondary sources. UK property holdings were identified and their registered title confirmed. Corporate interests — including directorships and shareholdings in both UK and offshore entities — were mapped and documented. Where interests had been transferred in the period preceding the proceedings, we captured those movements and their timing.
The output was structured for legal use from the outset: each asset identified by its primary source, each source cited, and the material presented in the sequence counsel would need to reference it in evidence. Speed was material to the work; the window for a without-notice application is narrow, and intelligence that arrives after the hearing is of no use.
Counsel received a sourced asset schedule ahead of the application. The documented picture — property titles, corporate interests, and the timeline of any pre-proceedings transfers — gave the application the evidential foundation it required. The freezing order was sought on the basis of material that could be placed before the court as it stood.
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