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Domestic business within the United States is the mainstay of the vast majority of CLLA members. However the increasing globalization of trade makes it important for all lawyers and other collection industry members to know at least a little about how collection work is handled in other countries to manage expectations and identify problems before they arise. Clients and credits may think that it is just as easy to collect a debt in another country as it is in the United States-but that rarely is the case.
As always, local representation can be key to successfully collecting debt in another country-however; Italy based attorney Giorgio Corno offers insight on international practices in this issue of international Q&A's.
Mr Frieze is a solicitor of the Supreme Court of England and Wales and a licensed insolvency practitioner. He is a partner in the firm of Brooke North with offices in London and Leeds (England).
Throughout his career, Mn Frieze has been involved in litigation and especially insolvency litigation although for the last fifteen years he has also specialized in international debt recovery litigation for clients based outside the UK who have claims in England and Wales.
He is the author of a number of practitioners' books on insolvency law and has been the General Editor of Insolvency Intelligence (a journal on insolvency (aw published in England) since its inception in 1988.
Mr Frieze is a regular speaker at seminars on creditors' rights and insolvency and has taken part in such seminars in many countries both on behalf of the CLLA and other organizations.
1 Are there any problems with a U.S. claimant pursuing a claim against a debtor...