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Cases · Risk, disputes & investigations · Contracts, commercial disputes & collections

Urgent Preserve assets and evidence

How do we stop the other side moving assets or destroying evidence?

WONE Global has litigators in each country where assets or evidence sit seek freezing, preservation and disclosure orders, often without notice to the other side, coordinated so they land together.

Countries in the typical case India · United Arab Emirates

The situation

What is happening

What is at stake

Assets and evidence disappear quickly once the other side knows a claim is coming.

A scenario

Trading companyMid-sized company · from India · in United Arab Emirates

It fears a former partner will move assets out of the UAE.

Where it ends Assets held in place while the claim proceeds.

A representative scenario of the work WONE Global coordinates, not a specific client’s matter.

Also asked as “Freezing order abroad”“Preserving evidence before a dispute”“We need an urgent injunction to prevent loss of assets”“A business needs emergency preservation of evidence”

The solution

How WONE Global handles it

WONE Global has litigators in each country where assets or evidence sit seek freezing, preservation and disclosure orders, often without notice to the other side, coordinated so they land together.

Usually led by Disputes and arbitration, with Contracts and commercial law and Data protection and cyber.

Step by step, in the scenario

  1. Day 1WONE Global engages litigators.
  2. Days 2-5Freezing order sought.
  3. Week 2Order served.
  4. ThenMain claim.

Timings are typical. They depend on the countries, the authorities involved and how quickly documents are available.

Decisions

The decisions involved

  1. 01Freezing orders or injunctions available
  2. 02Where assets and evidence sit
  3. 03Speed vs disclosure risk

Outcomes

What you receive

  • Urgent protective orders
  • Evidence preserved
  • A coordinated next-steps plan

This is a general guide. Your WONE Global professional confirms the work, timing and fees for your markets before anything starts.

Services

The services involved

One area of expertise usually leads; the others move with it. WONE Global keeps them connected across every country involved.

  1. Usually leadsDisputes and arbitration5 markets with a named lead→
  2. Often involvedContracts and commercial law12 markets with a named lead→
  3. Often involvedData protection and cyber2 markets with a named lead→

Who handles it

Disputes and arbitration, market by market

The status of the lead service in the markets that matter for this case. A named WONE Global Partner acts under their own licence; where none is in place yet, WONE Global confirms availability before anything else.

  1. Indiain the typical case On request Availability confirmed before any work begins Bring a requirement →
  2. United Arab Emiratesin the typical case On request Availability confirmed before any work begins Bring a requirement →
  3. Argentina WONE Global Partner Dr. Silvia Patricia Maccari · Lawyer Brief this Partner →
  4. Kenya WONE Global Partner James Ngochi Ngugi · Managing Partner Brief this Partner →
  5. Poland WONE Global Partner Andrzej Zacharzewski · Partner Brief this Partner →
  6. Saudi Arabia WONE Global Partner Abdulrahim bin Saleh Al-Zahrani · Founding Partner & General Manager Brief this Partner →
  7. Zambia WONE Global Partner Reagan Blankfein Gates · Managing Partner Brief this Partner →
  8. Singapore On request Availability confirmed before any work begins Bring a requirement →
  9. United Kingdom On request Availability confirmed before any work begins Bring a requirement →
  10. United States On request Availability confirmed before any work begins Bring a requirement →

Other markets: WONE Global covers 100 countries. Name yours in the requirement →

Dr. Silvia Patricia MaccariPalermo · Argentina

WONE Global Capability Partner · Argentina

Dr. Silvia Patricia Maccari

Lawyer · Maccari Adam & Asociados · Palermo

She is a lawyer, graduated from the Faculty of Law and Social Sciences of the University of Buenos Aires. She took his first steps in the nation's judiciary, in the National Labor Court, where he developed a rapid caree…

Andrzej ZacharzewskiKraków · Poland

WONE Global Capability Partner · Poland

Andrzej Zacharzewski

Complete profile

Partner · Zacharzewski & Partners Law Office · Kraków

Attorney at Law. Co-founder of the law firm. Provides litigation services to banks and advises corporate clients in international trade. Supervises the work of the Litigation Department and the International Desk. Chair…

Reagan Blankfein GatesLusaka · Zambia

WONE Global Capability Partner · Zambia

Reagan Blankfein Gates

Managing Partner · Reagan Blankfein Gates Legal Practitioners · Lusaka

Reagan started his career in practice at Mainza & Company where he had interned while pursuing a bar qualification at the Zambia Institute of Advanced Legal Education (ZIALE) in 2008. Upon being called to the bar, Reaga…

Dr. Esteban Lucio MaccariBuenos Aires · Argentina

WONE Global Capability Partner · Argentina

Dr. Esteban Lucio Maccari

Managing Director · Maccari Adam & Asociados · Buenos Aires

He is a lawyer with a degree from the University of Buenos Aires and a degree in Spanish Law. He completed postgraduate studies in Strategic Business Management at the Polytechnic University of Madrid and the Glocoll at…

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UNIONE™ · Before You Arbitrate™

If this becomes a dispute, test it first.

Test the claim or the defence, the evidence, the exposure and the settlement options before committing to formal proceedings.

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UNIONE™ is the UNBOUNDED™ Global Ecosystem's institution for cross-border dispute prevention, resolution, arbitration and enforcement. Like WONE Global, it is part of the ecosystem, and the two work as one. Links open theunione.org. Visit UNIONE™ · Disputes with WONE Global and UNIONE™

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Work through India ↔ United Arab Emirates with the leaders doing it.

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