Nicolas Richier

A native French speaker, Nicolas began his career at a Paris-based strategic communications and public affairs consultancy, where he notably advised a major activist fund on strategy relating to two high profile activist campaigns in Europe. Following this, Nicolas joined a London based corporate investigations firm as an analyst in the dispute consulting team and was one of the first to join the company’s Sovereign Debt Advisory division, working on a number of successful high-profile sovereign enforcement and recovery mandates.

Over the past 6 years, Nicolas has advised clients on litigation and arbitration matters all over the world, with a significant focus on investor-state disputes. Nicolas has developed extensive expertise in successfully seizing sovereign assets using creative methods, in addition to routinely building complex alter ego dossiers and supporting clients in successfully challenging sovereign immunity with the courts. Nicolas has particular expertise in identifying and supporting the seizure of non-traditional sovereign assets such as overflight revenue, commodities, and a variety of high-value assets tied to traditionally overlooked state-owned entities.

In addition to his sovereign work, Nicolas also routinely conducts multi-jurisdictional asset tracing investigations into individual and corporate debtors. Nicolas’ core expertise traditionally lies in Francophone Africa, the Middle East and Europe, although he has worked on cases spanning more than 60 jurisdictions.