Chinese claimants are bringing matters in your jurisdiction.They need local counsel they can rely on.
We refer only matters that have cleared our seven-point assessment and already attracted a funder: outbound claims to firms abroad, inbound enforcement to firms in mainland China. There is no directory and no circulation list, and roles and fees are settled before any introduction.
Four kinds of firm, each with a defined role
A cross-border matter usually passes between several firms in several jurisdictions. Who does what, who reports to whom and who pays is recorded in writing before any introduction.
Local counsel
Acts at the seat or in court, and gives the local-law view during assessment. Hourly, fixed or part-contingent fees — paid directly by the funder where there is one.
Asset tracing
Registries, real estate, banking and related parties, reported in a form that can go straight into a freezing or enforcement application. Paid by stage.
Enforcement agents
Recognition, attachment, freezing and realisation on the ground. Usually a base fee plus a share of what is recovered.
Co-funder
Funds fees and costs on assessed matters and is repaid from recoveries in the agreed priority. Approved funders can review assessed matters in the deal room.
How matters are referred
Matching happens after assessment. We put forward only firms that fit the venue, the dispute type and the size — usually two or three per matter.
Register & verify
Within five business days of registration, we make contact to verify the firm’s licence and its record on comparable matters.
Profile
Each firm is profiled by jurisdictions served, dispute types and matter size. Contact details remain internal.
Match per matter
Once a matter is assessed, candidate firms receive the assessment summary first and decide whether to accept it and on what terms.
Introduce & work
With the client’s consent we make the introduction, and the firm contracts with the client or funder directly. We follow progress and record feedback on both sides; firms that perform well receive further referrals.
Firms already in the network
Law firms, asset tracers, enforcement agents and funders across Asia, Europe, the Americas, the Middle East and Africa. The network is thinnest in enforcement and asset tracing across South-East Asia, Central Asia and Latin America, and that is where we are adding depth.
- Southern Cross Claims Finance (Sample · 示例) Sydney · Co-funder Sydney funder, established in the early 2000s and among the earlier Australian class-action funders. Commits from A$3m per matter across class actions, liquidators’ claims and commercial litigation, and provides security for costs where ordered.
- Paulista Contencioso Advogados (Sample · 示例) São Paulo · Local counsel São Paulo litigators, founded in the 1990s. Conducts STJ homologation of foreign awards and commercial litigation in Argentina and Chile; much of the practice concerns payment disputes on Chinese equipment and energy projects.
- Mainz Asset Intelligence GmbH (Sample · 示例) Frankfurt · Asset tracing Frankfurt asset-tracing firm, founded in the 2000s, whose staff include former bank-compliance officers and forensic accountants. Searches company, land and beneficial-ownership registers across the German-speaking jurisdictions and assembles the asset evidence for freezing applications, typically looking through offshore structures to the European assets behind them.
- Harbour Bridge Capital (Sample · 示例) Hong Kong · Co-funder Hong Kong funder, established in the early 2010s, specialising in HKIAC arbitration and award monetisation. Commits US$1m–10m per matter and will acquire award proceeds at a discount; its typical matter is a Chinese award creditor enforcing against offshore holding companies.
- Marunouchi Dispute Resolution (Sample · 示例) Tokyo · Local counsel Tokyo disputes practice, founded in the 1980s. Appears before the JCAA and the Tokyo District Court in cross-border matters, principally technology-licensing and joint-venture disputes; a bilingual Japanese–Chinese team acts for PRC clients.
- Chang’an Cross-Border Law Firm (Sample · 示例) Beijing · Local counsel Beijing cross-border disputes team, established in the 2010s. Conducts the initial assessment, selects and negotiates terms with foreign counsel, and works alongside them throughout — reporting each step to the client in Chinese.
- Straits Arbitration Counsel (Sample · 示例) Singapore · Local counsel Singapore arbitration practice, founded in the mid-2000s; several partners sit on the SIAC panel. Its principal work is South-East Asian infrastructure, port and commodity-trade disputes, notably EPC delay claims and letter-of-credit payment disputes. Will act on partial conditional fees.
- Highveld Asset Tracing (Sample · 示例) Johannesburg · Asset tracing Johannesburg investigators, established around 2010. Company, mining-right and energy-asset searches across sub-Saharan Africa, with verification on the ground; the usual mandate is to identify enforceable assets within mining and power projects.
- Han River Recovery Services (Sample · 示例) Seoul · Enforcement agents Seoul enforcement firm, established in the 2010s. Conducts recognition and enforcement of foreign judgments and awards before the Korean courts, together with provisional attachment and garnishment of bank claims; typical targets are subsidiaries of listed Korean groups.
- Gulf Enforcement Partners (Sample · 示例) Dubai · Enforcement agents Dubai enforcement specialists, established in the mid-2010s. Enforces judgments and awards before the DIFC and onshore UAE courts — bank attachments and seizures of vehicles and real property — with reach into Saudi Arabia and Qatar.
- Temple Row Litigation Fund (Sample · 示例) London · Co-funder London funder, established in the late 2000s, committing £2m–15m per matter to Commercial Court and LCIA claims, and arranging ATE adverse-costs cover through its broker panel. Typical matters: shareholder disputes and the enforcement of foreign awards against assets in England.
- Hudson Commercial Disputes LLP (Sample · 示例) New York · Local counsel New York commercial litigators, founded in the 1990s. Acts in state and federal commercial litigation and in New York Convention recognition of foreign awards, with extensive discovery and §1782 experience. Regularly represents Chinese exporters in claims against US distributors for unpaid goods.
Register
Please provide details of the firm and one contact. We will be in touch within five business days and confirm our decision by email within ten.