British Virgin Islands (BVI) Lawyers

Recognized as a preeminent law firm in the highly specialized field of asset tracing and recovery, Martin Kenney & Co. and its founding partner have been featured in articles and broadcasts of media outlets in many countries:

• OffshoreAlert of Miami has said that Mr. Kenney is, “one of the world's leading authorities on the legal aspects of freezing and seizing assets in multiple jurisdictions.”


• The Canadian Lawyer magazine of Toronto has said that … “Mr. Kenney just may be - considering his Robin Hood reputation and his bulldog legal tactics - one of the most determined and trusted lawyers around.”


• The Financial Times US edition has called Mr. Kenney a “top international asset chaser.”


• Wired (UK) magazine (October 2009) has characterised the firm as the “sharpest fraud busters in the world.”


• The Report on Business magazine (Globe and Mail, Canada) has said: “…Kenney runs one of the world’s most successful asset-hunting and recovery firms.”

Martin Kenney & Co. is a specialist, multi-jurisdictional investigative and litigation practice based in Road Town, Tortola in the British Virgin Islands. The BVI lawyers of the firm concentrate on the representation of persons harmed by economic crime in a multi-jurisdictional setting. The firm uses a combination of traditional and extraordinary measures to gather, most usually on an emergency basis, evidence of serious forms of wrongdoing, and to recover substantial value in many places concurrently. Our lawyers also represent clients in building investigative models to solve a diverse set of extreme-fact problems caused by dishonest conduct. The firm employs a multi-disciplinary team of professionals and has a surge capacity which permits it to draw from an extensive network of forensic lawyers, investigators and accountants.

Our BVI Lawyers can handle international cases relating to business fraud, commercial litigation, investigations, and insolvency including:

• Multi-jurisdictional claim prosecution and enforcement
• Global asset tracing and recovery
• Enforcement and protection of shareholder rights
• Corporate restructuring and insolvency
• Complex civil litigation
• International arbitration
• Covert and overt investigations
• Forensic accounting and link analysis diagramming
• International corporate searches
• The use of sealing and gagging remedies to search for concealed assets

Mr. Kenney is the exclusive representative in the British Virgin Islands of FraudNet, a specialist global network of 50 leading fraud recovery and business crime lawyers in 45 jurisdictions. Fraudnet is one of the five specialist divisions that comprise Commercial Crime Services (CCS), the anti-crime arm of the International Chamber of Commerce. Based in London, CCS is tasked with providing services to help the membership of the ICC combat all forms of commercial crime.

Through Mr. Kenney’s membership in Fraudnet, the firm has working relationships with many of the top fraud recovery lawyers in the world. These relationships are significant as speed and local expertise is of paramount importance in securing Mareva (or asset freezing) injunctions, Norwich Pharmacal (or document disclosure) orders, and other forms of pre-emptive relief.

Contact Martin Kenney & Co. to speak to our BVI Lawyers and find out how we can help you with your legal needs.