David Ingram

Partner

David Ingram trained and qualified as a Chartered Accountant with KPMG, starting his career in audit but transferring to the far more exciting world of recovery just in time for the recession of the late 1980s. David took his first insolvency appointment in 1995, having moved to a boutique insolvency firm, before moving to Chantrey Vellacott in 1999 where he remained for almost 10 years. David joined Grant Thornton in 2008 and is head of the Grant Thornton’s proceeds of crime team, specialising in the management and tracing and recovery of assets. David regularly takes appointments as Court Appointed Receiver in criminal and non-criminal matters as well as contentious insolvency appointments. David has over 30 years of experience in insolvency and has specialised in contentious insolvency and the proceeds of crime for 20 years. Recent experience includes a hostile appointment as liquidator in a multi-million-pound tax fraud and numerous 'boiler room' frauds ranging from premier wine to property investments in Brazil. David is passionate and meticulous in his approach to each and every assignment and is recognised as a world leader in the field of asset-tracing and recovery and has been described as the “go-to” individual for Court appointed receivership cases. David regularly speaks at conferences on the topic of fraud and how to recover assets, whether in the UK or overseas.

All Sessions by David Ingram

UAE Uncovered: The New Ground Zero for Financial Crime

Wren

Behind the United Arab Emirates' gaudy exterior is a not-so-pretty side.

This session will look at evidence that the UAE, particularly Dubai, has become a popular jurisdiction with investment fraudsters, oligarchs, sanctioned politicians, and money launderers, whom the country appears to welcome with open arms.

Speakers include investigative journalists who will present evidence of crooks purchasing property (and explaining how to investigate UAE property ownership), a British licensed insolvency practitioner who was prevented from leaving the UAE for three months after a British criminal defendant whose assets he was investigating filed a complaint against him, and a Deutsche Bank whistleblower who was targeted by the Dubai authorities after she blew the whistle on a massive money laundering scheme.