Mark McDonald has over 20 years’ experience of insolvency, specialising in contentious cross border insolvency often involving fraud investigation, asset tracing and litigation across a number of jurisdictions.
He has been practicing insolvency in the BVI since 2006 and became a licensed BVI Insolvency practitioner in 2008. He is a member of the New Zealand Institute of Chartered Accountants and a Solicitor of the High Court of New Zealand.
Mr McDonald is frequently appointed by the Courts in the BVI and the wider Eastern Caribbean to act as Liquidator or Receiver of companies with assets across the globe.
In 2018, he was recognised as the number 1 Offshore ‘Thought Leader’ by Who’s Who Legal Asset Recovery.
Kevin Hellard is the founder and practice leader of what is the largest dedicated contentious insolvency team in the UK focused solely on asset recovery which was recently awarded ‘Who’s Who Asset Recovery Expert Firm of the Year’.
He is an expert in investigating corruption, fraud and asset tracing globally with over 31 years of experience in the field. He is routinely appointed by government and other regulatory agencies, both in the UK and globally, over structures that have suffered losses caused by corruption or fraud to trace and recover stolen funds from the perpetrators.
Mr Hellard is a licensed insolvency practitioner who pioneered the use of insolvency powers as a tool to trace and recover assets on an international basis, having recovered substantial sums for creditors worldwide. He was awarded ‘Number 1. Thought Leader in Asset Recovery’ by Who’s Who Legal in their Experts Analysis in 2021 and 2022.