Elliott-Hamilton Law advises both sides of the asset recovery landscape: clients whose property and interests are affected by restraint, confiscation, and civil recovery proceedings, and the financial institutions and regulated businesses working to meet their obligations under the region's proceeds of crime and anti-money laundering frameworks. Our OECS-wide presence allows us to coordinate enforcement responses and compliance strategy seamlessly across jurisdictions.
For clients facing enforcement action, we advise on:
For clients facing enforcement action, we advise on:
- Restraint and freezing orders — Responding to restraint, monitoring, and production orders; applications to vary or discharge, and to release assets for reasonable living and legal expenses.
- Confiscation and forfeiture — Representing clients in post-conviction confiscation hearings and defending civil forfeiture and cash seizure applications.
- Civil (non-conviction-based) recovery — Acting for respondents in in rem recovery proceedings, including challenges to "unlawful conduct" and "recoverable property" findings.
- Third-party and innocent-owner protection — Safeguarding the interests of spouses, secured creditors, and bona fide purchasers whose property is caught by recovery measures.
- Judicial review and constitutional challenge — Contesting enforcement decisions on grounds of procedural impropriety, disproportionality, and interference with property rights.
For financial institutions and regulated entities, we advise on:
- AML/CFT compliance frameworks — Designing and reviewing policies, risk assessments, and reporting procedures for banks, DNFBPs, and virtual asset service providers.
- Suspicious activity reporting and FIU engagement — Advising on reporting obligations, tipping-off risk, and interactions with Financial Intelligence Units and regulators.
- Regulatory response and enforcement defence — Representing institutions in supervisory examinations, enforcement actions, and remediation.
- Cross-border tracing and mutual legal assistance — Coordinating multi-jurisdictional asset tracing, recovery, and MLA requests across the OECS and internationally, drawing on our TerraLex network.
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