Portfolios and assigned claims
Claiming public-sector credit in blocks, not file by file
We act for funds, SPVs and servicers holding credit acquired against the public sector. We verify the chain of title and the notification of the assignment, group the claims by debtor body and by procedural route, and pursue them as a block rather than one file at a time.
How it works
Four steps, and at each one you know what you provide and what we do.
We verify the claim is yours
We review the chain of assignments and the notice to the assigned debtor. An unnotified assignment is the debtor body’s most common objection, and the easiest to defuse before filing.
The portfolio is ordered
Claims are grouped by debtor body, by procedural route and by state of proceedings. What can go together, goes together, and what is time-barred is set aside.
Claims are brought in blocks
Each group enters through its own route, one submission per body instead of one per invoice. That is what makes a portfolio viable that would not be file by file.
A status board, not an inbox
You get the state of each block, the milestones passed and the ones coming, in a format you can take to your committee without translating it.
What the engagement covers
Point by point, what we take on.
Due diligence
- Chain of title and assignments
- Notice to the assigned debtor
- Limitation and deadlines per claim
- Supporting documents for each item
The strategy
- Grouping by body and by route
- Prioritisation by amount and solvency
- Domestic or European route as the case requires
- Timeline by block
The management
- Filing and tracking by block
- Periodic status report
- Reconciliation of sums received
Who engages us for this
The creditor profiles that most often arrive at this engagement.
How we work
Six commitments that hold across all six engagements.
We tell you no first
If the claim cannot be pursued, you hear it before anything is signed. A file that cannot prosper is no use to anyone.
A local lawyer in every country
The domestic phase is run by someone who litigates in that forum every day. The European phase we run ourselves, because it is the same everywhere.
The lawyer who briefs you is the one who runs it
The file does not change hands when the meeting ends. Whoever receives you is who signs the submissions.
The deadlines of the procedure, not estimates
You get the dates the rules set, not an optimistic guess. When a deadline cannot be extended, we say so before we start.
Everything in writing
Each phase ends in a document you can take to your board: the opinion, the submission as filed, the ruling.
Nothing you cannot check
Every statement about case law comes with its judgment and its application number. You can verify it yourself on HUDOC.
Further reading
Three articles that go into the detail.
When Non-Payment Becomes Expropriation
Article 6 § 1 protects the process. Article 1 of Protocol No. 1 protects the money. Pleading both is not belt-and-braces — they lead to different remedies and different arithmetic.
When Non-Payment Is a System, Not an Incident
When the same violation reaches Strasbourg thousands of times, the Court stops deciding it case by case. Being inside a pilot procedure changes both a creditor’s timetable and their leverage.
When a Municipality Doesn't Pay: Can the European Court of Human Rights Help You Recover Your Debt?
Local authorities sometimes fail to enforce judgments against themselves, leaving creditors without recourse. The European Court of Human Rights has consistently held that non-enforcement of final rulings breaches Article 6 § 1 and Protocol No. 1.
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New ECHR rulings are holding States to account. Yours could be next.
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