Asset Tracing & Recovery Investigations
When assets have been concealed, transferred, or misappropriated, Law & Forensics applies financial forensics, blockchain analysis, and corporate-structure review to map the flow of funds and locate wealth that may be subject to recovery or forfeiture.
Asset Tracing & Recovery Investigations capabilities
Cross-Jurisdictional Asset Tracing
We trace concealed, transferred, and misappropriated assets across multiple jurisdictions, examining bank records, wire transfer data, and beneficial ownership structures to develop comprehensive asset maps.
Blockchain and Digital Asset Analysis
We apply blockchain analysis to follow the movement of digital assets and identify holdings that traditional financial investigation alone may not surface.
Real Estate and Corporate Structure Review
We examine real property holdings and corporate structures to uncover hidden ownership and map how funds and assets are layered across entities.
Civil Recovery and Criminal Forfeiture Support
Our team has extensive experience supporting civil asset recovery, criminal forfeiture actions, and government recovery initiatives, including the identification and freezing of assets pending proceedings.
Former Federal Investigators
Our investigators include former federal law enforcement professionals with more than 21 years of complex financial crime and fraud recovery experience, ensuring thorough and legally sound investigations.
Collaboration with Counsel and Receivers
We work collaboratively with law firms, government agencies, and court-appointed receivers to deliver investigations that withstand scrutiny in recovery and forfeiture proceedings.
Asset Tracing & Recovery Investigations — matters we are engaged for
Funds move faster than the injunction
Between discovery of the loss and a freezing order, assets cross institutions and jurisdictions. Tracing the path quickly enough to name accounts in the application is what determines whether anything is recovered.
Value converts to crypto and back
Proceeds pass through exchanges, mixers and bridges. On-chain analysis identifies the path; the recoverable point is almost always the regulated exchange at either end, and identifying it is the practical objective.
Assets are held in others' names
Property and corporate interests are titled to relatives, nominees or shells. Establishing control rather than title is the evidentiary problem, and it usually runs through financing and correspondence rather than the register.
Civil recovery and criminal forfeiture proceed in parallel
Two processes want the same assets on different timetables with different standards. Sequencing them, and sharing evidence appropriately between them, is what avoids one undermining the other.
Asset Tracing & Recovery Investigations — frequently asked questions
What techniques do you use to trace hidden assets?
We combine financial forensics, blockchain analysis, real estate examination, and corporate structure review, examining bank records, wire transfer data, real property holdings, and beneficial ownership structures to map the flow of funds.
Who conducts an asset-tracing investigation?
Our investigators include former federal law enforcement professionals with more than 21 years of complex financial crime and fraud recovery experience across multiple jurisdictions.
Do you support both civil and criminal matters?
Yes. We have extensive experience in civil asset recovery, criminal forfeiture actions, and government recovery initiatives.
Who do you work with on recovery matters?
We work collaboratively with law firms, government agencies, and court-appointed receivers to ensure thorough and legally sound asset investigations.
Asset Tracing & Recovery Investigations — questions, terms and comparisons
Investigations experts who testify to this work
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Jeremy Desor
Senior Consultant
Complex Financial Crime · Securities Fraud Investigation · Money Laundering & Asset Tracing
George Pierce
Expert Consultant
Regulatory Compliance · Internal Investigations
Our experts serve as court-appointed special masters, forensic neutrals, and arbitrators — 40 appointments are listed by matter and citation.
Asset Tracing & Recovery Investigations case results
Energy / Oil & Gas Developer
Forensic FCPA Investigation for an International Energy Developer
Media & Entertainment
Exposing a Royalty-Pipeline Licensing Fraud for a Global Media Company
National Retail / E-Commerce
Trade-Secret Exfiltration Forensics Behind a National Retailer's Emergency Injunction