Paul Pretlove

Paul Pretlove is a managing director in Interpath’s Contentious Insolvency team in London, having spent 15 years offshore in the British Virgin Islands and the Cayman Islands. During his more than 25 years in the insolvency profession, he has overseen the tracing and recovery of assets from the U.K., U.S., Hong Kong, Russia and Switzerland. Mr. Pretlove’s expertise includes cross-border asset-tracing and recovery, commercial and shareholder disputes, and contentious director and trustee assignments across some notable appointments and industry firsts, including the ongoing court-appointed receivership of the assets of a decentralised autonomous organisation (DAO), resulting in the first time that the U.S. Bankruptcy Court recognized a DAO as a debtor under chapter 15 of the U.S. Bankruptcy Code. He also served as the first “soft touch” provisional liquidator in the British Virgin Islands for 11 companies in support of a wider and successful cross-border restructuring of more than $600m in secured notes for one of the world’s leading offshore and onshore oil and gas drilling businesses. Mr. Pretlove acts as joint liquidator of Madoff feeder funds, pursuing extensive and complex cross-border litigation on behalf of investors that suffered multibillion-dollar losses; he achieved settlement, recovering hundreds of millions of dollars for victims. He also acted as liquidator of a foreign currency trading company with its operations in the United Arab Emirates, which became embroiled in a multi-million-dollar fraud with thousands of victims. This appointment was the first time a British Virgin Islands court-appointed liquidator had been recognized in both the DIFC and Dubai courts. Mr. Pretlove is a Fellow of the Association of Chartered Certified Accountants, the Insolvency Practitioners Association and the Association of Business Recovery Professionals, and he is a licensed insolvency practitioner in the U.K.