Anya Hartwell
Co-founder · Recovery Lead
Ex-financial regulator (FCA, 2009–2017). Focuses on investment-fraud cases and class coordination. Cambridge, Bar (England & Wales).
We pair forensic recovery with empathetic advocacy. Founded on the belief that the people who've been defrauded deserve clearer answers, faster and honest ones.
There are two kinds of victims in financial fraud the ones who lose money, and the ones who lose money and are then told their case is hopeless. We exist for the second group, who almost always turn out to belong only to the first.
Level Plain Pro was founded by a former regulator, a forensic investigator, and a chartered accountant who had spent fifteen years watching ordinary people get pushed from one specialist to another each one technically correct, none of them coordinated. The result: cases that should have settled in months stalled for years.
Our model is simple. One firm, one named lead per case, one written plan, one fee schedule, one outcome. We turn down work that isn't a fit. We refer cases we can't help on to firms that can.
"Plain" doesn't mean simple. It means written down, agreed in advance, and explained in language you can repeat to your family.
Every case has a named partner-level lead. No call-centre handoffs.
Ex-financial regulator (FCA, 2009–2017). Focuses on investment-fraud cases and class coordination. Cambridge, Bar (England & Wales).
Forensic investigator, ex-Big-Four. Leads digital-asset and on-chain tracing. Certified Fraud Examiner; Chainalysis & TRM-trained.
Chartered accountant (ICAEW). Handles corporate, M&A post-close, and cross-border enforcement. Fluent EN/ES/PT.
15 years in correspondent-banking compliance. Leads our 24/72 emergency wire-fraud response team across US, EU, and APAC.
Trained crisis-line counsellor as well as case manager. Owns client communications and ensures every client has one named human contact.
Litigator (NY Bar). Coordinates US, BVI, Cayman, and Singapore enforcement. Twenty years' experience in high-value cross-border claims.
"How a London firm is rewriting financial-recovery for ordinary victims." Profile of our class-coordination model.
Cited as a leading practice in cross-border digital-asset recovery in the year-end Compliance Wrap.
Quoted on the rise of authorized-push-payment fraud and the path to bank reimbursement.
If you've spent a decade in regulation, forensics, banking compliance, or fraud litigation and you've been the one explaining things plainly when nobody else would we'd like to hear from you.
Confidential, 30 minutes, no fee.