Richard Healy

Partner & Business Services Platform Head at Gateley PLC

Speaker

Richard is a member of the Gateley Plc Strategic Board, the Head of our Disputes practice and the Head of our London office. Richard has significant extra-territorial experience in asset protection, asset tracing and recovery and of representing parties in disputes, both in the High Court and London Court of International Arbitration, as well as numerous overseas courts including the Courts of Appeal of Hong Kong, Singapore and Gibraltar.

Richard has, in recent years, been heavily focused on asset tracing assignments deriving from the Commonwealth of Independent States (CIS) and Ukraine. In particular Richard has been retained in a number of matters involving claims on behalf of ultra-high net worth individuals/ corporations emanating from CIS countries and Ukraine, including most recently, a negligence claim in the High Court in London and a number of disputed matters in the London Court of International Arbitration. Richard led a multi-jurisdictional team retained by an ultra-high net worth individual to successfully trace and recover assets into Kazakhstan and Uzbekistan.

Richard also has significant experience and knowledge in advising clients on innovative funding solutions to enable the funding of claims, as well as a detailed knowledge of the litigation funding market and strong relationships with a number of litigation funders who regularly instruct Richard to both pursue claims on their behalf and to advise on the viability of funding potential claims.

Richard is a member of R3, the Insolvency Lawyers Association, The British Kazakh Association, and The Ukrainian Law Association.