Martin Kenney
“Martin Kenney is a rock star in the field of international asset recovery. He is literally one of the best asset recovery lawyers in the world.”
- Chambers & Partners
Martin Kenney is one of the world’s leading asset recovery lawyers, specialising in multi-jurisdictional economic crime and international serious fraud.
He has acted for international banks, insurance companies, individual investors, and other private and governmental institutions.
Based in the British Virgin Islands (BVI), Martin is a Partner at MKS London and the founder and Head of Firm at MKS Law.
Leading a team of lawyers, investigators and forensic accountants in the BVI, Martin is widely regarded as a ground-breaker in the use of pre-emptive remedies, multi-disciplinary teams and professional litigation funding in response to global economic crime, uprooting bank secrets and freezing hidden assets in multiple jurisdictions.
He is a practising solicitor advocate of the senior courts of England and Wales, the Eastern Caribbean at the BVI, at St Vincent and the Grenadines, and a licensed foreign legal consultant in the state of New York.
Martin is also a Visiting Professor at the University of Lancashire School of Law and Policing in the UK, and ranked among the world’s leading asset recovery lawyers by Chambers and Partners, as well as being a Lexology Index “Global Elite” Thought Leader.
“Martin Kenney is very commercial and has an excellent 'bedside manner' with clients.”
- Legal 500
Expertise
- • Asset Recovery
- • Commercial Litigation
- • International Insolvencies
- • High Value Divorce
- • Family Succession Fraud
- • Disclosure & Interim Freezing Orders
- • Arbitration
Practice
- Solicitor advocate, England and Wales
- Solicitor advocate, Eastern Caribbean at the BVI
- Barrister and solicitor, St Vincent and the Grenadines
- (Non-practicing) barrister and solicitor, British Columbia, Canada
- Licensed foreign legal consultant, state of New York
- Certified Fraud Examiner (ACFE)
- LLM International Business Law, University of London
- LLB College of Law, University of Saskatchewan, Canada
Awards
- Chambers and Partners: Band 1 – Asset Tracing & Recovery
- Lexology Index: Global Elite Thought Leader
- Lexology Index: Global Elite Thought Leader (Asset Recovery)
- Lexology Index: Thought Leader – Global Investigations Review (Asset Recovery)
- Lexology Index: Firm Management (Thought Leader)
- Lexology Index: Investigations (Recommended)
- Lexology Index: Commercial Litigation (Recommended)
- The Cressey Award (for Lifetime Achievement in the Detection and Deterrence of Fraud) (ACFE 2014)
