Chris Recker

Practice Details

• Firm Information
  Position

  Associate

  Firm Name

  Duane Morris
• Representative Cases & Transactions
  Cases

  Representative Matters: Civil Fraud: Obtained a worldwide freezing injunction in a group claim valued at 50m, with parallel recognition proceedings in Florida, USA.
  Acted for an Isle of Man Property Company in a claim, pleaded at 30m, in relation to development l
  in Pol
  . The claim involved a freezing injunction, allegations of the payment of bribes, issues of reflective loss
  a parallel criminal investigation in Pol
  .
  Advising individuals
  organisations on the recovery of cryptoassets
  NFTs (including liaising with blockchain tracers,
  exchanges in multiple jurisdictions).
  Advised the victims of a multi-jurisdictional Ponzi scheme.
  Obtained a freezing injunction against a regulated business.
  Following an identity fraud against a company, obtained a norwich pharmacal order to rectify the register at Companies House.
  Prepared to act as part of a supervising solicitor's search team.
  Investigations: Assisted
  advised on external investigations carried out by a variety of third parties
  regulators.
  Carried out an internal investigation for an organisation following allegations of the misappropriation of funds.
  Carried out an international investigation for a client, following a dawn raid in their local jurisdiction.
  Cyber Security: Advised on a variety of cyber security issues including prevention
  mitigation strategies.
  Advised on incident response
  notifications to the ICO.
  Advised on notifications to data subjects following cyber security incidents / data breaches.
  Advised
  carried out investigations in relation to immediate incident response (including instructing relevant third parties) following ransomware, authorised push payment fraud, identity theft
  CEO fraud.
  Commercial Litigation
  Arbitration: Acted for a company in a circa 15m LCIA arbitration, which involved parallel proceedings in an EU member state
  challenges to jurisdiction.
  Acted for an offshore company in a claim to recover misappropriated trade marks.
  Advised
  acted on a variety of commercial disputes between public
  private companies.
  Acted for a private equity firm in a commercial court claim for misrepresentation valued at 15m.
  Risk: Advised a company on financial crime risks relating to the implementation of new payment technology.
  Advised on SARs
  correspondence with the NCA.
  Advising on a variety of issues related to money laundering, bribery, corruption
  the failure to prevent tax evasion.
  Drafted a variety of policies, including: anti-fraud
  anti-bribery
  corruption.