Paul Richard Brown

Mr. Brown has extensive experience in asset recovery and financial fraud matters, representing high net worth individuals and financial institutions. His recent asset recovery engagements include: the representation of defrauded investors in the Texas-based Ponzi scheme, resulting in federal prosecutions of the perpetrator, corporate counsel and a government lawyer; recovery of trust monies from international brokers of funds that were moved from Switzerland, Guernsey and the Isle of Man; successful identification, freezing, and recovery of assets prior to removal to various offshore jurisdictions; appointment as Special Asset Recovery Counsel to identify, secure and recover estate assets of a US debtor. Mr. Brown has secured assets by working with local counsel and an international team of investigators in 20 U.S. states and 20 foreign jurisdictions, for example Belize, Isle of Man, Switzerland, Portugal, Canada, and France. Mr. Brown also has experience in litigation and commercial transactions in a wide variety of technology areas. He has conducted more than 100 bench trials and numerous jury trials in various jurisdictions across the country. He is admitted to practice before the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals and the Supreme Court of the United States. Mr. Brown has negotiated complex multimillion-dollar transactions for domestic and international high-technology businesses worldwide, including in foreign jurisdictions such as Hong Kong, Taiwan, Switzerland, the Peoples’ Republic of China, Germany, Russia, Mongolia, Sweden, and the Netherlands.