Advise. Mediate. Collect. Acquire.

How the firm works

• Each matter is taken on its own merits, not by category or size.
• Purchase, mandate or retainer — the basis is set in writing at the outset, and is observed throughout.
• Confidentiality from first contact, subject only to the terms of engagement.
• Agentic systems under direct supervision; every output crosses a human desk before it crosses a counterparty's.
• What is purchased becomes the firm's own; what is on retainer remains the client's. The line is consequential and observed.
• We do not solicit. We confirm.
• We answer to no committee.

Advisory

Counsel in matters that conventional channels have not resolved, and in matters where conventional channels were never the right place. The work concerns positions that do not survive disclosure, situations where reputational or relational exposure rules out the open route, and disputes that have already escaped the categories under which they were first filed. Clients arrive by referral — from counsel who have done what counsel can do, from advisers who handled the adjacent matter, from banks and family offices that cannot put the position on their own books, from people who have been through something comparable and know where it was taken. Engagements are by application and run on retainer. The firm accepts a limited number of mandates each cycle and declines more than it takes. Declined matters are not explained. Discretion is a precondition, not a courtesy.

Conflict mediation

Resolution where the parties are locked and the matter can go neither to court nor into the open. The firm mediates in confidence and holds operational authority over the file for its duration. The work proceeds on the principle that acknowledgement and settlement are different objects: most disputes that have ossified at this stage are stuck because one side requires the other to concede something the other cannot concede aloud. Properly handled, the settlement is delivered without requiring the acknowledgement, and the file is closed. Authority is single-point and resides with the firm; the parties' representatives are present in the room, not in command of it. The settlement holds because of it.

Collection on mandate

Where instructed, the firm pursues a claim for the original holder under standing terms. The seller of the obligation retains title; the firm operates against it. Nothing is owed to the firm unless something is recovered. Engagements are accepted selectively, on the same reading the firm gives to any other file: the claim, the counterparty, the route by which the obligation will be made to perform. A debtor who has decided that silence and distance are a strategy is read accordingly. The obligation is the object — not the counterparty's mood, situation, or remorse.

Acquisition

The firm buys the claim outright where the matter warrants. Receivables that have been written down, written off, or quietly abandoned are reviewed on their own merits and assumed in full. Pricing is offered in writing. The firm does not bid against itself. On transfer, the receivable leaves the seller's balance sheet and ceases to be their concern. The firm thereafter bears the cost and the risk and conducts the recovery on its own account. What is purchased becomes the firm's own. The seller's involvement ends at transfer; the counterparty's relationship is with the firm from that point forward.