Toni leverages 20 years of experience working with and for stakeholders to restructure, recover assets and pursue litigation.
Prior to joining Kroll, Toni spent 13 years at one of the Top 10 accountancy firms in the UK, and worked in-house for a lender, before moving offshore. Toni specializes in cross-border asset tracing and recovery, regulatory enforcement, shareholder disputes and commercial and cross-border insolvency.
She has experience of working on engagements across a number of jurisdictions, including Australia, BVI, Cyprus, Dubai (both DIFC and onshore), Hong Kong, Malta, Malaysia, Russia, Singapore, UK and USA. Toni is a licensed insolvency practitioner in both the BVI and the UK, a member of the Insolvency Practitioners Association, and is a member of the Board of the Recovery and Insolvency Specialists Association in the BVI.
Some of Toni’s recent assignments include:
- Appointed in the offshore asset recovery for 1Malaysia Development Berhad Sdn and its sister company SRC International Berhad Sdn. Appointed as liquidator over 20 entities which were part of the fraudulent scheme totaling over $7.5 billion.
- Appointed as a Receiver and Liquidator over Emergent Fidelity Technologies, an FTX related entity owned by Samuel Bankman-Fried, to protect creditor claims against assets of $600 million in a global cryptocurrency scandal.
- Led the liquidation of two of the largest combined Madoff feeder funds; involved in defending a multimillion-dollar claim brought against the funds in the USA.
- Led the liquidation of an alleged Ponzi scheme in the UAE, resulting in the first-ever recognition of a BVI insolvency proceeding by the Dubai International Finance Centre Court.
- Court appointed liquidation which resulted in the Eastern Caribbean Court of Appeal affirming that liquidators of BVI companies can obtain retrospective sanction from the BVI Court.
- Acted for a UAE lender in linked Court appointed 'trading style' receiverships involving the management and sale of commercial and residential property in the UK.
- Led the court-appointed receiverships in one of the first cases dealing with interim relief where the Eastern Caribbean Court of Appeal held that the jurisdiction could grant interim relief in support of foreign arbitral proceedings.
