Marcelo Lucidi is a partner of DFA (Brazil), specialising in cross-border insolvency, asset recovery and distressed M&A. He has experience both in the transactional area, in projects of reorganisation and purchase of publicly and closely held companies, and in commercial litigation with a focus on insolvency. He has advised investors in the purchase of assets of companies in judicial reorganisation or bankruptcy. In the area of international recovery of assets, he advises financial institutions, trustees and a variety of creditors in identifying and recovering assets diverted as a result of bankruptcy fraud as well as fraud in the capital markets.

Ranked as a Next Generation Partner in Civil Fraud and Commercial Litigation by The Legal 500, Natalie is a partner specialising in complex multi-jurisdictional commercial litigation including banking and financial services litigation, insolvency, fraud and asset recovery.  She is a “partner who is one to watch”, “personable, professional and user friendly, great to work with, always on top of the detail”. Natalie has expertise in litigation and arbitration involving banking and financial services, insolvency, trust, contractual, partnership, shareholder and commercial disputes.  She has a particular specialism in fraud and asset recovery and has acted on some high profile Russian and CIS cases.  She has worked on multi-jurisdictional asset tracing cases, including obtaining extensive Worldwide Freezing, Search, Disclosure and Passport Surrender Orders in one of Russia’s biggest ever alleged bank frauds.