Greenberg Traurig, LLP‘s banking litigation practice stands out for its ’exceptional strength and depth’, and is fully capable of handling complex multijurisdictional matters, particularly with a focus on the Middle East and leading offshore financial settings. Restructurings and disputes related to property acquisition finance are a strength of the team. Team head Masoud Zabeti is ‘a real superstar’, while Matt Hancock focuses on contentious regulation, and Mehmet Karagoz has a focus on asset recovery and civil fraud. Katharine Bond and Francesca Conroy are noted.
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‘Engaged lawyers, good communicators, practical and client focused.’
‘Masoud Zabeti is a great team leader and project manager. On top of everything. Dependable, reliable and practical. Katharine Bond is an excellent details person. Works very hard and know everything. Francesca Conroy is hard working, detail oriented, reliable.’
‘Exceptional strength and depth - from partners to junior associates.’
‘Masoud Zabeti - a real superstar, a very able litigator.'
- 'Mehmet Karagoz - extremely able junior partner, very clever, hard-working, sensible and with excellent judgment. He is the complete package even at the beginning of his partnership career.’
Key clients
- Crane Bank and its shareholders
- Tradition Financial Services Limited
Work highlights
Acting for the Ugandan bank, Crane Bank, and its shareholders in relation to special measures taken against the bank by the Central Bank of Uganda as part of an alleged corrupt scheme to take control of the Bank and misappropriate its assets. Claims are brought in unlawful means conspiracy, dishonest assistance, and against one defendant, knowing receipt. The damage and loss suffered is in excess of USD 200 million.
Acting for Tradition Financial Services, one of the world’s largest inter-dealer brokers, in defending a multi-million-pound claim alleging dishonest assistance and fraudulent trading (under s.213 of the Insolvency Act 1986) brought by the liquidators of various companies which were used as vehicles for complex MTIC carousel fraud in the EUA carbon credit market in 2009.
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Practice head
Masoud Zabeti
Other key lawyers
Matt Hancock; Mehmet Karagoz; Katharine Bond; Francesca Conroy