Raedas

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Raedas is a specialist investigations firm with a unique focus on gathering admissible evidence in support of legal proceedings. The only investigations firm to be ranked Band 1 by Chambers and Partners for the past four years, Raedas has worked on the most high-profile international legal matters in the past decade in Europe, the CIS, the Middle East and the Americas. The team, which is spread across the US, the UK, Europe and Dubai, gathers evidence and intelligence and provides expert and fact witness testimony to support high-stakes international arbitration, litigation, international investigations, enforcement, asset recovery, and other contentious matters. For instance, the team’s most recent work has been instrumental in winning a USD 1.6 billion arbitral award for a client in a shareholder dispute in the Middle East, enforcing a multi-million intra-EU BIT arbitral award against a sovereign state in Europe post-Achmea, and successfully obtaining third-party disclosures from parties in the US, the UK, Cyprus, Cayman, BVI and other jurisdictions.

Isabel Asquith

Associate Managing Director | Raedas

With over seven years’ experience in the legal and investigative sector, Isabel has particular experience in supporting high-value investor-state disputes, both in the evidence-gathering and enforcement stages. Isabel supports multinational corporate groups, HNWIs, sovereign entities and intergovernmental organisations in cross-border asset tracing, fraud and corruption investigations. She provides clients with evidence and support across the lifecycle of complex disputes, from the pre-action stages, through interim relief, and finally in enforcement or settlement strategies. Isabel’s specialism includes supporting the enforcement of awards granted under ICC, UNCITRAL, and ICSID rules, particularly in relation to bilateral investment treaty claims. She frequently works alongside specialist legal, accounting and communications experts to devise a range of legal and ancillary strategies to realise settlement or payment of high value awards. This includes gathering evidence to support veil piercing, commercial purpose and alter ego arguments, as well as deploying information to secure third-party debt orders, freezing and disclosure orders. Isabel draws on her work in reputation management to support strategies that combine legal, investigative and communications solutions. Evidence gathered in Isabel’s recent matters have supported legal remedies including §1782 applications, European Preservation Orders, disclosure applications under Cayman and Singapore law, as well as criminal complaints in MENA, Europe and sub-Saharan Africa.