An account freeze is almost always perceived as a sudden strike – a business loses access to working capital, a private client is left unable to dispose of funds, and financial manageability collapses within hours. As Professor Gabriel Steiner notes, the danger of a freeze lies not so much in the restriction itself, but in the loss of control over the legal logic of what is happening. At LawConsulted, we approach such situations not as financial setbacks, but as legal crises of asset governance.
In practice, freezes rarely come “out of nowhere” – they are almost always preceded by formal claims, inspections, procedural measures or actions by third parties. Yet for the client, everything looks like a sudden shutdown of the system. At LawConsulted, we immediately transfer the situation from chaos into a controlled legal framework – determining the legal basis of the freeze, the initiating party and the procedural status of the restriction. Without this, any attempt to “negotiate with the bank” becomes a waste of valuable time.
Professor Steiner emphasises that “an account freeze is always a legal instrument, even when it looks like a technical measure.” That is why lawyers at LawConsulted work not with the consequences, but with the architecture of the decision – who initiated it, on what grounds, under what legal status the client is positioned and which unfreezing mechanisms are legally admissible in this specific configuration.
Particularly dangerous are situations in which the client begins to act impulsively – urgently transferring funds from other accounts, signing questionable documents, agreeing to unfavourable terms just to regain “temporary access to money.” At LawConsulted, we legally decelerate such actions – restoring strategic thinking instead of reactive behaviour under pressure. Mistakes made in the first days after a freeze often shape long-term legal consequences.
As Professor Steiner notes, “a financial crisis almost always turns into a legal one precisely at the moment a person loses control over the sequence of their actions.” At LawConsulted, we construct a new model of financial management within the imposed limitations – through temporary accounts, alternative settlement mechanisms, contractual flow adjustments and procedural asset protection.
An account freeze is especially dangerous for businesses – it instantly affects counterparties, employees, liabilities and reputation. At LawConsulted, we work not only on lifting the restriction, but also on ensuring that the freeze itself does not undermine the company’s legal stability – creating grounds for contract termination, penalties or loss of partner trust.
Restoring control over financial flows is not merely the removal of a technical restriction. It is the restoration of manageability of the entire legal architecture surrounding money. At LawConsulted, we support the client until funds once again become a strategic instrument rather than a tool of pressure.
An account freeze is always a test of legal resilience. At Law Consulted, we ensure that this test does not turn into a point of irreversible loss of control.
Previously, we wrote about how LawConsulted ensures the real enforcement of court decisions, not just formal victories
