Women in FIRE presents: Asset Recovery in Action

A Trusted Forum for Expert Legal Insight, Professional Growth, and Meaningful Inclusion

We Welcome Allies of All Genders

27 November 2025 | Carpenters' Hall, London

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Agenda

Asset Recovery in Action

Morning Yoga Pre-Event Networking
07.30

Join us before the conference for a morning Yoga session to kick start your day

Registration & Welcome Refreshments
08.45

Chairs' Opening Remarks
09.15

Natalie Todd, Partner
Cooke, Young & Keidan

Tatiana Flores, Partner
LDCM Advogados (Brazil)

Carla Reyes, Partner
Des Gouttes & Associes

Antonia Argyrou, Partner
Cyprus

The Future of Asset Recovery
09.20

  • Different types of assets and what is worth pursuing
  • How the valuation of assets has changed
  • Key trends in legal strategy
  • Exploring appointment of receivers by way of equitable execution

Rebecca Hume, Partner
Howard Kennedy

Eleanor Temple KC, Barrister
Selborne Chambers

Fraud is Everywhere
10.00

  • What to do with the evidence you have been given
  • The ethical considerations when dealing with fraud
  • How to manage dishonesty and dishonest witnesses

Sarah Gabriel, Partner
Peters & Peters

Carla Reyes, Partner
Des Gouttes & Associes

Marina Boterashvili, Partner
Quinn Emanuel Urquhart & Sullivan

Networking & Refreshment Break
10.40

Roundtable Discussions 1: Career Development and Technical Challenges
11.10

During this session you’ll have the opportunity to select your choice of topics to build an agenda that best suits your practice. With four roundtables to select from, choose two discussions where you’d like to take part in with your peers.

Your first 40-minute discussion will start at 11:10, followed by a second 40-minute session to take part in at 12pm.

Your Seniority Experience Mental Load of a Work-Life Integration Assumptions around Freezing Injunctions Succession as a Lawyer
  • Being in a male dominate board room
  • Working with a junior team

 

  • How are you handling the stress
  • Ways to set boundaries
  • Pre-conditions of a freezing order in differing jurisdictions
  • Mistakes made with freezing injunctions – what would you have done differently
  • Ensuring continuity in long-term, multi-jurisdictional cases
  • Navigating client and stakeholder transitions
  • Impact of lawyer or party succession on litigation standing and enforcement.

Natalie Todd -
Partner - Cooke, Young & Keidan

    

 

Networking & Lunch Break
12.40

Roundtable Discussions 2: Soft Skills and Legal Tools
13.40

During this session you’ll have the opportunity to select your choice of topics to build an agenda that best suits your practice. With four roundtables to select from, choose two discussions where you’d like to take part in with your peers.

Your first 40-minute discussion will start at 13:40, followed by a second 40-minute session to take part in at 14:30.

The Art of Negotiation Perfecting Your Pitch AI Isn’t Going Away Pitfalls as an Asset Recovery Practitioner
  • How to make the most of your skills
  • Practice, practice, practice

 
  • Making sure you are being heard
  • Improving your presentation skills - what works best for you
  • Have you taken the time to learn what is AI
  • Accepting that AI will become part of your practice
  • How are you working with juniors with integrating AI in the workplace
  • Common legal and ethical pitfalls in asset recovery
  • Procedural and strategic errors made
  • Shared experiences and best practices

 

Nicola Boulton - Partner, Litigation - Wallace

 

Lucy Wicksteed - Senior Associate - Charles Russell Speechlys

 Sue Thackeray - Partner - Kingsley Napley

Networking & Refreshment Break
15.10

Cross-Border Practice: Impacts from an International Practice
15.40

  • Navigating today’s geo-political environment
  • Lessons learned from other jurisdictions
  • Don’t just manage the case but also the multi-jurisdictional team

Elisa Bianchetti, Partner
RVMH Avocats (Switzerland)

Sarah Murray, Partner
Stevens & Bolton

Naomi Simpson, Partner
Mishcon de Reya

Career Motivations – Different Pathways
16.20

  • Views from a former female Judge (first female judge of the Commercial Court)
  • Being a female Insolvency Practitioner
  • Insights from a female general counsel

Kirsty McMahon, Partner
BDO

Dame Elizabeth Gloster,
Former Judge

Alison Geary, Senior Counsel & EMEA Investigations Lead
IBM

Chairs' Summary & Thank You
17.00

Networking Drinks Reception
17.10

07.30
Morning Yoga Pre-Event Networking

Join us before the conference for a morning Yoga session to kick start your day

08.45
Registration & Welcome Refreshments
09.15
Chairs' Opening Remarks
Natalie Todd - Partner - Cooke, Young & Keidan
Tatiana Flores - Partner - LDCM Advogados (Brazil)
Carla Reyes - Partner - Des Gouttes & Associes
Antonia Argyrou - Partner - Cyprus
09.20
The Future of Asset Recovery
  • Different types of assets and what is worth pursuing
  • How the valuation of assets has changed
  • Key trends in legal strategy
  • Exploring appointment of receivers by way of equitable execution
Rebecca Hume - Partner - Howard Kennedy
Eleanor Temple KC - Barrister - Selborne Chambers
10.00
Fraud is Everywhere
  • What to do with the evidence you have been given
  • The ethical considerations when dealing with fraud
  • How to manage dishonesty and dishonest witnesses
Sarah Gabriel - Partner - Peters & Peters
Carla Reyes - Partner - Des Gouttes & Associes
Marina Boterashvili - Partner - Quinn Emanuel Urquhart & Sullivan
10.40
Networking & Refreshment Break
11.10
Roundtable Discussions 1: Career Development and Technical Challenges

During this session you’ll have the opportunity to select your choice of topics to build an agenda that best suits your practice. With four roundtables to select from, choose two discussions where you’d like to take part in with your peers.

Your first 40-minute discussion will start at 11:10, followed by a second 40-minute session to take part in at 12pm.

Your Seniority Experience Mental Load of a Work-Life Integration Assumptions around Freezing Injunctions Succession as a Lawyer
  • Being in a male dominate board room
  • Working with a junior team

 

  • How are you handling the stress
  • Ways to set boundaries
  • Pre-conditions of a freezing order in differing jurisdictions
  • Mistakes made with freezing injunctions – what would you have done differently
  • Ensuring continuity in long-term, multi-jurisdictional cases
  • Navigating client and stakeholder transitions
  • Impact of lawyer or party succession on litigation standing and enforcement.

Natalie Todd -
Partner - Cooke, Young & Keidan

    

 
12.40
Networking & Lunch Break
13.40
Roundtable Discussions 2: Soft Skills and Legal Tools

During this session you’ll have the opportunity to select your choice of topics to build an agenda that best suits your practice. With four roundtables to select from, choose two discussions where you’d like to take part in with your peers.

Your first 40-minute discussion will start at 13:40, followed by a second 40-minute session to take part in at 14:30.

The Art of Negotiation Perfecting Your Pitch AI Isn’t Going Away Pitfalls as an Asset Recovery Practitioner
  • How to make the most of your skills
  • Practice, practice, practice

 
  • Making sure you are being heard
  • Improving your presentation skills - what works best for you
  • Have you taken the time to learn what is AI
  • Accepting that AI will become part of your practice
  • How are you working with juniors with integrating AI in the workplace
  • Common legal and ethical pitfalls in asset recovery
  • Procedural and strategic errors made
  • Shared experiences and best practices

 

Nicola Boulton - Partner, Litigation - Wallace

 

Lucy Wicksteed - Senior Associate - Charles Russell Speechlys

 Sue Thackeray - Partner - Kingsley Napley
15.10
Networking & Refreshment Break
15.40
Cross-Border Practice: Impacts from an International Practice
  • Navigating today’s geo-political environment
  • Lessons learned from other jurisdictions
  • Don’t just manage the case but also the multi-jurisdictional team
Elisa Bianchetti - Partner - RVMH Avocats (Switzerland)
Sarah Murray - Partner - Stevens & Bolton
Naomi Simpson - Partner - Mishcon de Reya
16.20
Career Motivations – Different Pathways
  • Views from a former female Judge (first female judge of the Commercial Court)
  • Being a female Insolvency Practitioner
  • Insights from a female general counsel
Kirsty McMahon - Partner - BDO
Dame Elizabeth Gloster - - Former Judge
Alison Geary - Senior Counsel & EMEA Investigations Lead - IBM
17.00
Chairs' Summary & Thank You
17.10
Networking Drinks Reception

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