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Peter Pender-Cudlip joined J.S. Held in May of 2022 as part of J.S. Held's acquisition of GPW. Peter has over 20 years of international investigations experience, having worked on projects in more than 40 countries across the Middle East, Asia-Pacific, Latin America, Europe, the U.S., and Russia. Prior to joining J.S. Held, Peter established GPW, which rapidly became one of the leading investigations and dispute consulting firms in the sector, with offices in London, Dubai, and Singapore.
Prior to the successful development of GPW, Peter was a Director of Kroll Associates in London, following earlier careers in investment banking, financial public relations, and law. Peter works extensively with the world’s leading corporations and law firms on complex commercial issues and disputes and has extensive experience across substantially all industry sectors.
Clients retain J.S. Held on a wide range of investigative matters, including litigation and arbitration support, fraud, bribery, and corruption investigations, financial accounting (‘black holes’) investigations, asset tracing and recovery, ownership mapping, counterparty due diligence, sanctions, compliance, and operational risk reviews.
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Peter has an MA (Hons) from Worcester College from Oxford University and an LLM from the College of Law in Guildford.
In Who's Who Legal, clients and peers have noted that “Peter’s work is excellent” and that “he is our go-to expert”. They added, “[Peter] is highly organized and possesses very strong connections” and "Peter is an absolute stand out of the asset recovery expert market, with peers saluting his "ability to recover assets in extremely complex situations" and "he is able to find assets that other investigators cannot”.
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