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Peter Pender-Cudlip
 

Senior Managing Director | Global Investigations

 

+44 20 8706 1921 (Office)
Building No. 3, One Space Business Centre, Offices 43-50, 1st Floor, Green Community, Dubai Investment Park 1
Dubai, UAE

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. 

Peter's work includes: 

  • Asset and fraud investigation on behalf of a Gulf state corporation that was the victim of a multi-million dollar fraudulent scheme.
  • Operational risk review on behalf of a global corporation seeking to enhance its operational and financial resilience. 
  • Investigating the diversion of assets from a BVI offshore holding company, including establishing jurisdiction and identifying and evidencing assets in enforcement-friendly jurisdictions and owned via offshore and trust structures. 
  • Assisting the liquidator of a collapsed investment vehicle to trace missing funds thought to have been embezzled by former management.
  • Global asset investigation on behalf of an international bank seeking to recover $80m+ against a Gulf family company and its principals.
  • Global litigation support and asset tracing on behalf of an investor enforcing a USD 500 million arbitration award against a Sovereign state.
  • Investigative due diligence on a Saudi company on behalf of a potential business partner. 
  • Acting for a global insurer and counsel in successfully investigating and defending substantial claims arising under trade credit insurance policies purchased by the policyholder to insure their accounts receivable losses. 

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”.

Key Expertise

  • Strategic Disputes Advice & Evidence Gathering
  • Commercial & Sovereign Asset Tracing & Enforcement in Support of Arbitration & Litigation
  • Due Diligence
  • Fraud Investigations
  • Operational Risk Reviews

Professional Affiliations/Memberships/Licenses/Training:

  • Band 1 Global, for Asset Tracing & Recovery by Chambers and Partners 2023, 2024
  • Who’s Who Legal Global Leader – Asset Recovery Experts 2022, 2023, 2024
  • Who’s Who Legal Global Leader – Investigations Experts 2022, 2023, 2024
  • Lexology Client Choice, Asset Recovery
  • Advisory Excellence, Asset Recovery

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