ICC Commercial Crime Service

11.5 million documents reveal links to massive asset concealment

According to the BBC today, 11.5 million documents leaked from a Panamanian law firm (the so-called Panama Papers) reveal links to massive asset concealment running to billions of dollars being conducted by numerous international persons including heads of state.

Such disclosure may enable fraud victims amongst others a unique opportunity to recover losses using the remedies offered by Courts in numerous jurisdictions to help them to locate, freeze and recover assets.

Steven Philippsohn is a leading authority on complex international asset recovery. Over the last 30 years his firm has been retained by governmental, national and international organisations. A founding member of ICC FraudNet, he is listed by The Times of London as one of the 100 key influential legal professionals in the United Kingdom.” Among his firm's highlighted work is representation of the primary defendant to a $1 billion claim (one of The Lawyer’s Top 20 cases for 2014 and 2015).





ICC FraudNet is an international network of independent lawyers who are leading civil asset recovery specialists in each country. Recognized by Chambers Global as the world’s leading asset recovery legal network, our membership extends to every continent and the world’s major economies, as well as leading offshore wealth havens that have complex bank secrecy laws and institutions where the proceeds of fraud often are hidden. Founded in 2004 by the Paris-based International Chamber of Commerce (ICC), the world’s business organization, FraudNet operates under the auspices of the ICC’s London-based Commercial Crime Services unit.