Prior to founding Martin Kenney & Co., Solicitors, Mr. Kenney was a partner at Bermans, the English firm of Solicitors. Subsequently, Mr. Kenney cofounded the New York law firm Kenney, Becker, Solicitors LLP and Interclaim, a global asset recovery concern. He is a specialist investigative and litigation lawyer in multi jurisdictional economic crime and international serious fraud, and has acted for a large number of substantial clients such as international banks, insurance companies and other private and governmental institutions. He is a practising Solicitor-Advocate (Higher Courts Civil Proceedings) of the Supreme Courts of England & Wales and of the Eastern Caribbean at the BVI, a non practising Barrister & Solicitor of British Columbia, and a licensed foreign legal consultant in the State of New York. Mr. Kenney holds an LL.M (International Business Law) from University College, London, and is a member of numerous professional societies. He has published and lectured on money laundering, legal and ethical restraints on the conduct of private investigations, and international concealed asset recovery. Mr. Kenney is widely regarded as a ground breaker in the use of pre emptive remedies in response to global economic crime to uproot bank secrets and freeze hidden assets simultaneously in multiple jurisdictions. He has been featured in articles and broadcasts of media outlets in many countries.
Offshore Alert 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 (Toronto) has said that he "…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 him a "top international asset chaser."
In June 1999, Mr. Kenney was appointed to the Working Group on Government Corruption of the Society of Advanced Legal Studies at the University of London, which issued proposals for the reform of the law on abuse of power and government corruption in the United Kingdom. Mr. Kenney is an active member of the Business Crime Committee and Section on Insolvency, Restructuring and Creditors Rights of the International Bar Association. Mr. Kenney is also the exclusive member of Fraudnet for the BVI, a specialist network of leading fraud and business crime lawyers of the Commercial Crime Services Division of the International Chamber of Commerce.
In 2010, Mr. Kenney was admitted as a Solicitor-Advocate in St. Vincent and the Grenadines.
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