Mary is a dispute resolution partner at Kingsley Napley.  She is a commercial litigator with a specialism in civil fraud and asset tracing.  She acts for individuals, companies, insolvency practitioners and other law firms. Mary can supervise your search order, loves a freezing injunction and in recent years has developed expertise in cases involving bribery.  People say nice things about her in the directories including one comment which compared her to a dog.  Mary really needs a new photo as she has much more grey hair now.

Katie Longstaff specialises in commercial chancery and general commercial litigation, with a particular focus on insolvency work.

She regularly appears as sole counsel in the High Court and appeared in the Supreme Court as second junior for the respondents in Regency Villas Title Ltd and others v Diamond Resorts (Europe) Ltd and others [2018] UKSC 57. She acts for international and domestic clients across a broad range of sectors (including financial services and real estate) and is a contributing author to the Personal Insolvency volumes of Atkins.

Simon heads the restructuring and insolvency team, advising insolvency practitioners, directors, charity trustees, companies, investors and high net worth individuals on a wide variety of insolvency matters. He regularly advises clients on their rights against counterparties that are in liquidation or facing financial difficulty, and has been involved in some of the most high-profile insolvencies in recent years. He frequently advises boards of directors and charity trustees on their duties and obligations, particularly in an insolvency context. Simon also has particular expertise in complex contentious insolvency matters, often involving concurrent proceedings in multiple jurisdictions and the recovery of assets based overseas. He has substantial experience of disputes before the English courts, in addition to litigation and arbitration in key venues around the world.

Often writing and speaking on ‘hot topics’ in the insolvency market, Simon has been cited in Sealy & Milman’s Annotated Guide to the Insolvency Legislation. He regularly deals with funded cases and advises on how best to finance disputes.

Described as "hard-working, approachable, and strategically astute", and providing "clear, prompt, and decisive advice", Simon is deemed by his clients as "a pleasure to deal with". Recognised as "a truly standout individual in this field", he possesses "an impressive, in-depth knowledge of insolvency law and practices and has an exceptional ability to think strategically and provide pragmatic, effective, and cost-efficient solutions".

Simon qualified in 2010 and joined Russell-Cooke in 2024. He is also a Solicitor Advocate qualified in England and Wales and admitted to practice in the British Virgin Islands.

I have over 14 years’ experience working in our insolvency and asset recovery team specialising in global asset tracing, recovery and enforcement.

I have a specific focus on assisting beneficiaries, trustees and representatives in matrimonial, family, trust and probate disputes as part of our contentious estates and family disputes specialism with the support of my colleagues in the corporate intelligence, forensic, and valuation teams.

I lead personal and corporate appointments in this field and work closely with solicitors to identify, safeguard, value and recover assets across numerous jurisdictions on cross border recoveries.

I lived in the British Virgin Islands for two years where I led several high-profile feeder funds in liquidation, which enabled me to obtain experience in understanding and unwinding complex corporate and trust structures in offshore jurisdictions.

Jennifer is the head of the dispute resolution team in the Cayman Islands office. She is recognised in all the leading directories and has been practising in the Cayman Islands since 2009 (and in the BVI since 2008) and has substantial experience of all contentious issues coming before the Cayman Islands courts. Her practice spans all aspects of complex commercial litigation, fraud and asset tracing including crypto disputes, contentious insolvency and restructuring, and contentious private client work

Michael is a partner in Kingsley Napley’s Dispute Resolution team, based in London.  

He is a highly experienced insolvency and commercial litigation lawyer with expertise in all aspects of corporate recovery, bankruptcy, fraud and enforcement.

He is instructed by insolvency practitioners, financial institutions, corporates, high net worth individuals and offshore advisers.  He is a Solicitor-Advocate and has been recommended by the Legal 500 and Chambers Global. 

Steven Haynes is a Director at Greyhawk and has 25 years of investigations experience.

He provides evidence and intelligence to law firms and their clients in complex, high-value and cross border disputes. He has extensive experience of identifying the assets of personal, corporate and sovereign debtors.

His clients include judgement creditors, banks, state asset resolution agencies, deposit insurance agencies and arbitral award holders.

At Greyhawk, he manages multilingual teams engaged on international disputes; these typically combine a range of investigative approaches, including collection of human intelligence, surveillance, interviewing, analysis of public records, and the use of specialist tools to extract information from the deep web and social media.

Greyhawk operates globally, with noted expertise in Europe, the CIS, the Middle East and Africa. The firm’s asset tracing engagements frequently include analysis of structures in offshore jurisdictions. Steven joined the investigations sector in 1997 after a career as a news reporter.