Jose Carrizo is a Partner and heads the Litigation and Dispute Resolution Department of the firm leading a team that advises clients extensively in the area of commercial litigation, corporate dispute resolution and criminal law. Mr. Carrizo has been involved in complex matters, especially in the fields of civil, criminal, administrative, commercial, banking, insolvency and insurance law.

Yvonne Plamondon is a qualified insolvency practitioner with more than 18 years of experience in restructuring and insolvency. Originally from the UK, Yvonne has been based in the Cayman Islands since 2013. During that time, she has focused on providing restructuring advice and liquidation services to Cayman Islands domiciled investment funds and complex cross-border group structures. Yvonne is also experienced in digital forensics and fraud investigations, particularly within insolvency contexts.

Yvonne is very involved in industry organisations and has previously held positions on the board of the chapter of International Women’s Insolvency & Restructuring Confederation (“IWIRC”) and the International Association of Restructuring, Insolvency and Bankruptcy Professionals (“INSOL”) International Webinar Series Committee. She is a regular speaker on insolvency and forensic focused webinars and live panel sessions.

Prior to joining FTI Consulting, Yvonne worked for a major international accounting firm in the UK and the Cayman Islands. She received her B.S. in Mathematics, Statistics and Accounting with honors from the University of Strathclyde.

Andrew specialises in all aspects of Cayman Islands and British Virgin Islands international wealth structuring for individuals and financial institutions.

He is well recognised with awards and distinctions, including a STEP Founder's Award and being named in the 2023 Private Client Global Elite; a "Leading Individual" in Who's Who Legal 2023; as "highly praised" in Chambers High Net Worth 2024; as "a seasoned professional" in the IFLR1000 2023 and he is named in the 2022 Citiwealth 100 International Private Client Litigation Lawyers.

Legal 500 Caribbean 2024 notes that he is the "go-to lawyer for any
trust related matters under the laws of the Cayman Islands".

Spencer Vickers

Co-Chairperson of RISA Cayman

Spencer is a Co-Chairperson of RISA Cayman. RISA Cayman is the INSOL chapter for the Cayman Islands and has over 400 members.  Focusing on delivering educational and networking events, RISA Cayman’s mandate is to investigate and share best practices amongst industry practitioners in the fields of insolvency, restructuring and litigation.

Outside of his role at RISA Cayman, Spencer is a Partner in the Cayman Islands Litigation & Restructuring team at Conyers.  He has over a decade of experience advising clients on a range of insolvency, restructuring and cross-border litigation matters, including regulatory disputes. This includes frequently advising insolvency practitioners, creditors of distressed entities and shareholders.  Spencer is an experienced advocate, appearing before the Grand Court and Court of Appeal of the Cayman Islands on a regular basis.

Aurélie Conrad Hari co-heads the Litigation practice of Bär & Karrer. She has a broad experience in handlingcomplex multi-jurisdictional disputes in fi nancial, banking and commercial disputes. She also specializes in privateclients' assistance and representation.
Her practice encompasses shareholders' and employment disputes, insolvency as well as asset recovery, with therecognition and enforcement of foreign judgments and arbitral awards. She also frequently acts as counselrepresenting parties in commercial arbitration related to various industries, eg, sale, distribution, agency,construction (including power plants) and energy. Additionally, she conducts internal investigation on specifi c factfi ndings and compliance issues upon instructions from clients or supervisory authorities.
Aurélie Conrad Hari is a regular speaker and publisher on topics of her expertise. She is co-chair of the offi cers ofthe commissions committee and member of the Extended Bureau of the International Young Lawyers Associationand chairs the Expert Forum on Dispute Resolution established by the Geneva Bar Association in 2017.
Who's Who Legal lists her as a leading lawyer in litigation, asset recovery and as a future leader in arbitration. Sheis also recognized by Chambers and Partners and Legal500 for her litigation practice as well as by Leaders League,the Global Elite Private Client Directory as well as Citywealth where she is featured in in the IFC Powerwomen Top200 since 2018.

Graeme heads the Firm's Private Wealth Disputes team. He advises trustees, executors and beneficiaries in relation to a broad range of disputes. Graeme is recognised in the legal directories as a leader in contentious trust and estates matters. He practises in both domestic and international trust and succession disputes - recent cases have involved parties located in multiple onshore and offshore jurisdictions around the world. Graeme regularly works alongside his colleagues in the family and private client teams on complex multi-jurisdictional issues. He also has a growing practice in IFA disputes and handles fraud and professional negligence cases relating to trust, tax and succession matters.

Graeme has been recognised in WWL: Thought Leaders Private Client 2024.

Graeme is admitted to practise in England and Wales.

Brian Simms KC is the Senior Partner of the firm and the head of its Litigation and Insolvency & Restructuring Groups. He is one of the Bahamas’ leading advocates and has vast experience in the Supreme Court and the Court of Appeal, in addition to having appeared a number of times in the Privy Council.

He was made a Queen’s Counsel in 2009 and is instructed in the most substantial Bahamian and international offshore cases.  

Consistently ranked in Band 1 by Chambers Global and Chambers High-Net-Worth, Brian is praised for the quality of his work and expertise in commercial litigation, trust disputes, insolvency and fraud cases. He is described by clients as “a top offshore Silk” and “the best litigation lawyer in the Bahamas”.

Alison is head of our Guernsey Insolvency & Dispute Resolution Practice Group. She has considerable experience in trust, contentious probate as well as general corporate disputes.

I am a partner in the Dispute Resolution team. My practice focuses on domestic and cross-border litigation and dispute resolution.

At the trial level, Nick has recovered nearly a billion dollars for his clients. His clients have avoided claims for many hundred millions more through successful defense verdicts or arbitration awards. Nick also argued and won at the United States Supreme Court in Yegiazaryan v. Smagin, a case about an international RICO conspiracy to prevent enforcement of a $150 million arbitration award.

Nick’s success has been widely recognized. He was named as a 2023 40 Under 40 honoree by Bloomberg News. He is also one of just a dozen finalists for the National Law Journal’s Winning Litigator award, which honors the most significant nationwide victories in 2022 and 2023.

James practices commercial litigation, arbitration and ADR and has specific expertise in complex litigation, high value asset recovery, enforcement and financial services litigation.

He has resolved business critical disputes before the DIFC, onshore UAE and English Courts and under the rules of the Dubai International Arbitration Centre (DIAC), the Abu Dhabi Commercial Conciliation and Arbitration Centre (ADCCAC), the ICC Court of Arbitration, the London Court of International Arbitration (LCIA), and the DIFC-LCIA.

Sharif is a Tier 1 Commercial Chancery Silk and a former economist and derivatives trader. The breadth and depth of his practice is such that he is recognised in eight practice areas in Chambers & Partners UK Bar, six practice areas in Legal 500 and five practice areas in Chambers Global. As a former investment banker, he has market-leading expertise in banking and financial services (including regulatory matters) and valuation disputes. He is well known in the market as a court advocate and arbitration counsel in commercial, banking and finance, company, insolvency, partnership and commercial fraud litigation. He has been involved in some of the largest commercial disputes in recent years (see in particular, the Hewlett-Packard/Autonomy and The Republic of Mozambique/Credit Suisse litigation). Sharif has a particular specialism in cross-examining experts on complex financial products or valuation issues.

James is a litigation partner resident in New York and Washington. He focuses his practice on international disputes and cross-border enforcement and asset recovery, representing clients in a broad range of international and domestic conflicts before US courts and arbitral tribunals. A significant portion of his practice includes the enforcement of arbitral awards and foreign judgments against sovereign and commercial entities in the US and globally. James also has experience in multi-jurisdictional asset recovery proceedings involving allegations of fraud.

Josh Rievman specializes in the litigation and arbitration of commercial disputes. Josh has successfully represented clients in jury and non-jury trials in New York State and federal courts, in state and federal appellate proceedings and in arbitration locally and internationally. Josh also counsels employees and employers with respect to separation, onboarding and internal investigations, as well as claims for discrimination and retaliation.
Josh represents clients on a broad range of issues, including in actions arising out of domestic and international commercial transactions, breach of contract, breach of fiduciary duty, unfair competition, licensing, products liability, trademark, securities, partnerships, banking transactions, transportation, technology, professional sports contracts and bankruptcy.

Tatiana leverages high-level experience in international, comparative, and human rights law to assist clients in avoiding, navigating, and resolving complex, cross-border disputes primarily involving investments in emerging markets, space and satellite technology, and renewable energies.

Named to “DC's Power Women of Law” List by DCA Live (2024), Tatiana specializes in developing a comprehensive understanding of her clients’ business goals and needs to craft tailored strategies to win high-stakes, bet-the-company litigations and arbitrations, adhere to internal and external stakeholder expectations, and avoid incurring reputational or operational risk.

Prior to joining Wiley, Tatiana served as a Legal Adviser to Judge Rosemary Barkett on the Iran-United States Claims Tribunal in the Hague, advising on complex, politically sensitive state-to-state cases, and as a law clerk to the Honorable M. Margaret McKeown, U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit.

Scott Berman has a varied practice in complex commercial disputes, particularly in securities, investment fund, and bankruptcy litigation. He regularly handles matters involving securities fraud, common law fraud, breach of fiduciary duty, breach of contract, fraudulent conveyance, and other claims arising from complex transactions.

Scott represents both plaintiffs and defendants in state and federal courts, including at trial and arbitration, and has significant experience handling cross-border disputes. He also acts as an arbitrator in cases involving financial disputes and has twenty years of experience serving as a mediator.

Nina Marino co-founded Kaplan Marino, PC with partner Richard Kaplan in 1998 to create a platform for the firm's then-burgeoning white-collar practice. Since then, Nina has devoted her practice exclusively to white-collar and complex criminal defense achieving global recognition for her successful representation of individuals. Nina Marino recognized by Chambers USA, says, “Nina Marino has cultivated an excellent reputation in the market for her skillful representation of senior executives in white-collar criminal litigation.”.” Forbes Advisor says, “Nina Marino is frequently recognized as one of the best criminal defense attorneys in California.” Clients say, "she is dogged in getting to the bottom of things, but she's smart and flexible. She is very focused on her clients' interests, and she is really top-notch.”

David K. Momborquette focuses his practice on complex commercial litigation, regulatory matters and internal investigations, primarily for clients in the financial services industry, including hedge funds, private equity funds, venture capital funds and interdealer brokers. He has extensive experience representing entities and individuals in both private securities litigation and securities regulatory and other related matters, including investigations by the Securities and Exchange Commission, Financial Industry Regulatory Authority, US Attorneys’ offices, New York Stock Exchange, state attorneys general offices and state securities regulators.
David also has litigated numerous cases in federal and state courts throughout the United States and before arbitration panels from the commencement of claims through trials and appeals in matters involving allegations of insider trading, violations of the federal securities laws, market manipulation, breach of fiduciary duty, common law fraud, employee raiding, trademark violations, misappropriation of trade secrets and other business torts.

Jolie is a Partner in Wiggin and Dana’s Litigation Department and Health Care Practice Group. Jolie is a seasoned litigator, former federal prosecutor, and skilled negotiator with extensive experience in health care investigations, litigation, and alternative dispute resolution. Her practice focuses on representing and advising clients regarding federal investigations, internal investigations, and in complex civil litigation, including civil rights, contractual disputes, and guardianship proceedings.

Previously, Jolie served for almost a decade as an Assistant United States Attorney in the Eastern District of New York, including as Chief of Healthcare Fraud. Drawing upon her background in investigating and prosecuting fraud matters, Jolie now represents clients in investigations and at trials, arbitrations and mediations.  

Ian Herbert represents global companies, executives, and trustees through government investigations and related litigation. Mr. Herbert has handled all aspects of multi-jurisdictional investigations, including complex legal analysis, global litigation strategy, and factual development. A member of the firm's Trust and Family Office and Anti-Money Laundering practice groups, Mr. Herbert has experience advising both individuals and entities, including multinational corporations, offshore trustees and financial services companies on a range of issues, including foreign bribery, tax fraud, and other financial crimes. 

As a former Senior Trial Counsel at the U.S. Securities & Exchange Commission (SEC), he was entrusted with some of the most sophisticated and noteworthy cases that the federal government prosecuted in the last decade. During his nine year tenure at the SEC, he earned multiple awards for exemplary service and served as first chair for numerous trials. This included acting as lead counsel in the litigation against Wing Chau and Harding Advisory LLC - relating to CDO asset selection in the run-up to the financial crisis - resulting in a major conviction against one of the characters lampooned in the film “The Big Short.”  Howard was also the lead trial counsel in the prosecution of Kareem Serageldin, another figure referenced in “The Big Short”, involving the mismarking of certain mortgage-backed assets, by Credit Suisse, in the wake of the financial crisis.

Katherine R. Catanese assists troubled companies facing critical points in their businesses in solving problems related to financial distress and restructuring. She also represents investors and other parties in fraud-based litigation arising in the insolvency space. She is a partner and vice chair in the firm’s Bankruptcy and Restructuring Group, as well as a member of the Bankruptcy and Health Care Restructuring sub team.

Katie effectively and efficiently handles various cross-border fraud matters. She represents companies, investors, and hedge funds — both onshore and offshore — in bankruptcy ligation including involuntary bankruptcies and Chapter 15 bankruptcies. In this regard, she is skilled in litigating jurisdiction, fraudulent transfer, alter ego, and related litigation involving the intersection between U.S. and offshore entities. She assisted in filing an involuntary petition for a group of hedge fund creditors and then assisted in procuring a settlement in that bankruptcy that resolved over a dozen lawsuits in the U.S. and offshore and is liquidating the remaining hedge fund assets. See In re Stillwater Asset Backed Offshore Fund, Ltd., 485 B.R. 498 (Bankr. S.D.N.Y. 2013) (where the court granted the involuntary petition against an offshore fund whose creditors were offered ineffective DIKs).

Joel Cohen has over two decades of experience in the dispute, forensic, and insolvency practice areas, most specifically focused in the financial services and asset management industries. His experience encompasses a number of significant cross-border insolvency and litigation matters, where he has served as financial advisor and consulting expert to fiduciaries, court-appointed receivers, monitors, offshore liquidators, bankruptcy, and litigation trustees. He has assisted these clients in a variety of litigation consulting services, including asset tracing, fraud, Ponzi schemes, industry custom and practice for investment managers, and forensic analysis. Joel has also led several internal investigations within the context of family office, investment advisors, and various corporate structures.

Paige is a senior associate in the Dispute Resolution Group in New York.

Her practice focuses on commercial and investor-State arbitrations, as well as on litigation in the United States (including, but not limited to, arbitration-related litigation).  She advises clients in a wide variety of sectors, including financial services, oil and gas, mining, and manufacturing, and has acted in arbitrations under ICSID, UNCITRAL, ICC, AAA, and ICDR rules.

She has been recognized as a Rising Star by Legal500, has received the 2024 Lexology Client Choice Award for Litigation and the 2023 Women In Business Law Arbitration Rising Star Award.  She is an editor of the Kluwer Arbitration Blog.

Paige received her JD cum laude from Harvard Law School and her BA magna cum laude from Tufts University.  She speaks English and French fluently and is admitted to practice in New York and several federal courts in the United States

Marcus Dearle is a 26-year veteran of Withers in London and Hong Kong (1990-2016) and has over 35 years of experience acting in complex domestic and international family law cases. Marcus has specialist expertise, in particular, acting for trustees in HNW and UHNW divorce and trust cases, advising on HNW and UHNW pre- and post-nuptial agreements (PNAs) and dealing with international divorce litigation involving PNAs and trusts. He has recognised pioneering expertise in international surrogacy law and medico-legal/fertility law issues.

Lucas Moore has represented high net worth individuals, funds, banks and corporates in international litigation and arbitration for 20 years. Lucas’ practice includes claims arising in financial services, international trade, trust, fraud, contentious insolvency, corporate governance/shareholder issues and reputational issues.

Damián Vallejo is a partner at Dunning Rievman & MacDonald LLP in New York. He is a dispute resolution attorney with experience in civil and common-law legal systems, and represents clients in investment treaty and international commercial arbitrations conducted under the major international arbitration rules. Damián also represents clients on commercial disputes before US courts and advises on arbitration-related litigation matters and the enforcement and challenge of arbitral awards. He also acts as due diligence counsel for funds involved in litigation and arbitration finance, and acts as arbitrator.

Damián is an adjunct professor at Fordham Law School in New York and currently serves as the Vice President of the New York and Washington, D.C. Chapter of the Spanish Arbitration Club. He is a member of the Chartered Instituted of Arbitrators (CIArb) and of the European Chinese Arbitrators Association (ECCA).

Matt Kaiser, a partner at Kaiser PLLC and former assistant federal public defender, represents clients in white collar criminal matters and represents lawyers and their clients in legal ethics matters. In his white-collar practice, Matt frequently represents clients in white-collar, political, and cross border investigations. In his ethics practice, Matt brings claims against law firms on behalf of commercial clients, serves as an expert witness, and advises lawyers and law firms. Matt has been recognized by Chambers and Legal 500, among others. He is an adjunct professor of law at Georgetown University Law Center, a co-Chair of the Criminal Law Committee of the International Bar Association, and a past President of the Bar Association of DC.

Jose Carrizo is a Partner and heads the Litigation and Dispute Resolution Department of the firm leading a team that advises clients extensively in the area of commercial litigation, corporate dispute resolution and criminal law. Mr. Carrizo has been involved in complex matters, especially in the fields of civil, criminal, administrative, commercial, banking, insolvency and insurance law.

Zack Bluestone’s practice focuses on commercial litigation and asset recovery, as well as judgment enforcement, including matters with cross-border components.

Zack represents plaintiffs and defendants in all manners of commercial litigation, and with an emphasis on creditor’s rights, including fraud and fraudulent transfers, business disputes, and contentious real estate matters. Zack’s clients include public and private credit insurers, such as the U.S. Export-Import Bank, and other quasi-governmental and private export credit agencies in Europe and Asia, as well as publicly traded companies, real estate developers, small and medium sized businesses, and high net worth individuals.

As a seasoned litigator, Zack advises clients on complex disputes in court proceedings and arbitration. Recent successful engagements include a complete victory on behalf of a D.C.-based commercial real estate developer where he obtained dismissal, with prejudice, of a nine-count lawsuit demanding $21 million in damages, pursuing claims of fraud, misrepresentation, and breach of contract. Zack also successfully executed on a judgment, based on a California arbitral award against the U.S. assets of a leading Spanish wine distributor. Zack led the team seizing nearly $2 million before the monies could be channeled out of the U.S.

Alissa Nann focuses her practice on corporate bankruptcy and restructuring, offering practical business solutions for entities and individuals impacted by distress-related situations. She represents parties on all sides of a bankruptcy — debtors, creditors and creditors’ committees, secured lenders, estate fiduciaries, and purchasers of distressed assets — both in chapter 11 and out-of-court workouts. She has significant experience with bankruptcy-related litigation, both in the U.S. and internationally, including representing liquidators in chapter 15 bankruptcy cases, in cross-border litigations involving fraud and insolvency issues, and in related asset-tracing and recovery. Alissa also counsels companies on bankruptcy alternatives such as private sales, dissolutions, and structured wind downs.

Prior to joining Foley, Alissa served as a law clerk to the Hon. Shelley C. Chapman (ret.), United States Bankruptcy Judge for the Southern District of New York.

Andrea E. Smith is a partner in the New York office of Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher and admitted to practice in both New York and California. Ms. Smith Co-Chairs Gibson Dunn’s Transnational Litigation Practice Group and is a member of the firm’s International Arbitration, Environmental Litigation and Mass Tort, Class Action and Appellate Practice Groups.

Ms. Smith is a high-stakes trial lawyer whose victories include billion dollar matters in both international and domestic forums. Her international work spans Central, South and North America at both the trial and appellate levels. Domestically, she represents clients in an array of industries nationwide, including oil and gas, food and agriculture, aerospace, technology, accounting, real estate and financial services. She has also served as trial counsel for state and local governments.

Warren E. Gluck is a trial lawyer in Holland & Knight's New York office and serves as co-chair of the firm's Asset Recovery Team, as well as a member of the firm's Litigation and Insolvency practice. Mr. Gluck has tried high-value and complex matters to verdict and award before juries, federal and state judges, and arbitrators. He has experience in all aspects of the litigation process and routinely acts as lead counsel on litigation, judgment enforcement, fraud, cross-border insolvency, crypto, asset recovery and shipping matters, and has recovered hundreds of millions of dollars for his clients.

Who's Who Legal says, "Warren Gluck is a 'strong litigator' who is always 'two steps ahead' in high-stakes, multijurisdictional asset recovery proceedings." The guide also notes that he "has an intimate understanding of the nuances of the laws of multiple jurisdictions," "is very practical and pragmatic" and "implements practical solutions and workarounds that allow [clients] to remain on course," while Global Investigations Review 2023 Guide notes that "Warren is considered by peers as a subject-matter expert."

Charlene focuses her practice on international arbitration and multi-jurisdictional cross-border disputes. She enforces arbitral awards and foreign judgments in US courts and coordinates global asset recovery campaigns against sovereign and non-sovereign debtors. She is fluent in matters involving foreign sovereign immunity and other complex jurisdictional issues that arise when litigating foreign disputes in US courts. She has substantial experience with discovery under 28 U.S.C. § 1782 and other litigation tools in aid of foreign disputes. 

Charlene also represents clients in a broad range of contract and treaty-based conflicts in arbitration, including energy sector disputes that involve parties from Latin America, Europe and Asia. She advises clients concerning dispute risk related to foreign direct investment in developing nations. 

Charlene has spoken and published articles on issues related to sovereign immunity, the enforcement of arbitral awards, arbitral jurisdiction and other issues relevant to international arbitration and cross-border litigation.

Matthew is a commercial and insurance litigator and is experienced in a wide variety of commercial dispute resolution areas including: shareholder disputes; banking; financial markets (including ISDA transactions); fraud; contractual disputes; international sale of goods and commodities disputes; regulatory and investigatory work. Matthew also handles reputation, privacy and defamation issues for a range of high profile clients.

Matthew has advised on and conducted arbitrations under the arbitral rules of several institutions including UNCITRAL, LCIA, ICC, LMAA, LME and OHADA.

He acts for underwriters, brokers and insureds on the Lloyd’s, London and international markets. Matthew has acted as coverage and defence counsel in respect of, inter alia, D&O and fidelity policies. He also has substantial experience of bringing and defending solicitors’, accountants’, tax advisers', architects’ and insurance brokers’ negligence claims.

Matthew’s work often has an international element and he has advised clients across numerous territories in Europe, former Soviet Union, North America, Asia, Middle East, Africa and Latin America.

Matthew speaks fluent Spanish and Portuguese.

Emily is an experienced litigator recognized for her wide-ranging white-collar expertise, with notable strength in healthcare and securities cases as well as all types of government investigations. She also maintains a dynamic practice representing and strategically advising companies and individuals in complex civil litigation involving healthcare, business, and environmental litigation, as well as administrative and regulatory matters.

Emily’s recent experience includes representation of potential defendants in federal environmental, cybersecurity, medical billing, public corruption, export compliance, and tax fraud investigations, and successful plea negotiation for a client facing up to thirty years in prison for federal wire and bank fraud charges resulting in a sentence of probation and home confinement. She also regularly negotiates business resolutions in complex civil cases with millions of dollars at stake, defends doctors, dentists, and nurses before state disciplinary boards, and has helped students accused of academic, behavioral, and other infractions resolve situations with the administrative and academic conduct boards.

Shaul is a partner at BCL specialising in business crime and regulatory enforcement. Recommended in Chambers UK, Chambers HNW and The Legal 500, he is also ranked as an expert in Who’s Who Legal (Business Crime Defence and Investigations) and is listed by Global Investigations Review as one of the world’s leading young investigations specialists.

Shaul specialises in acting for individuals and companies in complex cross-border matters. He has extensive experience advising on multi-jurisdictional corruption and fraud investigations, asset recovery proceedings (in the UK and overseas), and extradition proceedings (in particular, politically motivated requests). He has acted in numerous high-profile investigations and prosecutions brought by the SFO and many other UK and overseas enforcement authorities.

Henrique Forssell is one of the founding partners of DFA, with extensive experience in advising trustees, foreign liquidators and financial institutions in the identification of bankruptcy and banking frauds of national repercussion. Over the last ten years, he has been apointed by several judicial authorities to some of the most relevant proceedings of international recovery of assets in Brazil. Since 2011 he has been a member of FraudNet, an organization established by the International Chamber of Commerce that selects highly qualified and experienced lawyers in recovery of assets in each country. He was named as a reference lawyer in Brazil in the area of recovery of defrauded assets by English magazine Who’s Who Legal. He is also a member of INSOL (International Association of Restructuring, Insolvency & Bankruptcy Professionals).

Alex Stolyar prosecutes and defends high-stakes breach-of-fiduciary-duty and contractual disputes. He has diverse experience representing both plaintiffs and defendants in all phases of complex commercial litigation in state and federal courts, as well as alternative dispute resolution proceedings.

Alex focuses his practice on disputes between majority and minority shareholders, limited and general partners, founders and investors, joint venturers, trustees and beneficiaries, and other principals and their fiduciaries. He also advises nonprofit and corporate directors regarding their fiduciary obligations, and is a sought after speaker on fiduciary duties.

Throughout his career, Alex’s clients have included Fortune 500 companies, a major foreign government and multiple international conglomerates. He has litigated cases in jurisdictions across the country involving a broad range of legal issues, including breach of contract, fraud, RICO, trademark and copyright infringement, probate and commercial real estate disputes.

Most recently, Alex defended the former trustees of a $500 million trust in connection with surcharge claims for alleged breach of fiduciary obligations during their administration of the trust. In addition, he prosecuted a $50 million lawsuit against an international hotel management company for breaches of its fiduciary obligations to one of its principals.

Alex has also represented clients, including major Russian and European oil companies, in multiple international litigations involving various jurisdictional, cross-border discovery, and complex conflict of laws issues. Alex serves as the Co-Chair of the Firm’s Cross-Border Discovery Practice Group.

Alex has served on the board of directors for the Beverly Hills Bar Association and is one of the founders of the Los Angeles East European Bar Association. He is also a contributing author to California Business Litigation, a two-volume attorney’s handbook published by Continuing Education of the Bar.

Dr. Alexander Amann LL.M. (UCLA) is founder and owner of Amann Partners Attorneys at Law.  He is specialized in asset recovery, private enforcement, collective redress, unfair competition law, criminal law, and litigation funding matters.  Dr. Amann represents individual clients in high stake asset recovery disputes but also thousands of victims in various investors and consumer damages cases in Liechtenstein, Austria and Switzerland.

Lynsey Barron is a Chambers USA-ranked attorney in Atlanta, Georgia specializing in white-collar criminal defense and appeals. She is a former Assistant United States Attorney who specialized in financial fraud and public corruption crimes. She also has an active internal investigations practice. 

Before starting her own law practice in 2021, she was a partner at the law firm Miller & Martin PLLC and head of the firm's white collar criminal defense practice. She spent several years in Jones Day's Atlanta office practicing white collar criminal defense and commercial litigation. In addition to her Big Law experience, Lynsey was in-house counsel for United Parcel Service (UPS), where she managed compliance, investigations, data privacy, and cyber security. She has significant experience managing internal investigations; ethics and compliance issues including the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act (FCPA), Committee on Foreign Investment in the U.S. (CFIUS), and international trade regulation and compliance. 

Lynsey is also a Visiting Assistant Professor of Practice at Emory University School of Law where she teaches White Collar Crime, Federal Criminal Practice, and Sentencing Law and Policy. She clerked for Judge Beverly B. Martin on the Eleventh Circuit Court of Appeals. 

Dr. Hannes Arnold is senior partner of GASSER PARTNER Rechtsanwälte, formerly Batliner Gasser, one of the leading law firms in Liechtenstein and a Chambers Global top tier firm, which was established in 1954.
Dr. Arnold is admitted to the Liechtenstein and Austrian Bar and specializes in Corporate Law, Company Law as well as banking and financial markets law. He advises high net worth individuals in a variety of estate planning, asset structuring and litigation matters. Dr. Arnold has handled complex asset tracing endeavours and enforcement of international judgements with respect to Liechtenstein structures and has broad experience in challenging and defending Liechtenstein private wealth structures in international and cross border litigation and arbitration.

Marcelo Lucidi is experienced both in the transnational area, in projects of reorganization and purchase of publicly and closely-held companies, and in strategic civil litigation with a focus on insolvency. He has advised investors in the purchase of assets and Isolated Production Units of companies in judicial reorganization or under bankruptcy regime. In the area of international recovery of assets, he advises financial institutions, trustees and a variety of creditors in identifying and recovering assets diverted as a result of bankruptcy and capital markets frauds in Brazil and abroad.

Piers Plumptre is an English qualified partner working in the London office of Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher. Piers is a member of the Dispute Resolution and International Arbitration Groups.

Piers’s practice includes international arbitration and enforcement, complex commercial litigation, financial services disputes, and international fraud and white-collar crime. Piers’ arbitration practice encompasses both commercial and investor-state cases, under all major institutional rules. The cases Piers handles are almost exclusively multi-jurisdictional, and he is admitted to practice in the BVI as well as England and Wales. Fitting that pattern, Piers regularly acts for clients seeking to enforce judgments and arbitral awards, in the English courts and elsewhere. He has a particular expertise in cases involving states and state-owned entities.

Benoît specialises in litigation, including civil, criminal and regulatory litigation before all Swiss courts and authorities. He represents HNWIs, corporate clients as well as foreign States.

Recommended for his “strong technical knowledge” (Legal 500, EMEA) Benoît acts in both domestic and cross-border/international commercial disputes and fraud litigation, typically dealing with both the civil and criminal litigation streams. An important aspect of this is formulating an efficient litigation strategy to maximise respective benefits, also providing external communication support when needed. He notably has vast experience representing victims of financial crimes before Swiss criminal authorities for asset recovery purposes.

Benoît also has a keen interest in asset recovery and insolvency matters as well as enforcement proceedings. He regularly domesticates foreign judgments, awards and orders, particularly in cross-border insolvency matters. Where required, he also advises on asset protection strategies before, during and after litigation.

Admitted to practice law in the Cayman Islands, Hong Kong and Australia, Robert True specializes in large, multi-jurisdictional dispute projects, particularly those concerning financial services, fraud and insolvency. Inherent in Robert’s work is the need to build strong co-counsel relationships with local firms-of-record, to balance often competing local-law considerations and to develop and implement a cogent case theory in concurrent suits.

Robert’s clients are often the liquidators of failed investment vehicles, as well as listed and private companies. He also acts for financiers and private equity, and is experienced in both plaintiff and defendant litigation work.

Notable past cases include acting for liquidators of the US$2.6B Canadian listed Sino Forest Corporation fraud in proceedings brought against valuers for negligence in Singapore, against wrongdoers in Canada and against auditors and dishonest assisters in Hong Kong, and for the liquidators of the GFC era Weavering Macro Fixed Income Fund in proceedings for fraud and negligence brought against auditors in the Cayman Islands.

An internationally renowned leader in high-profile, cross-border cases – focusing on OFAC Sanctions, CFIUS, the FCPA, and global asset recovery and due diligence – Robert Appleton advises and defends international and U.S. companies, organizations and individuals in sensitive government investigations, before US regulatory bodies and criminal litigation. Robert is a highly accomplished OFAC Sanctions leader and focuses on recent Russia and China sanctions.

Robert is known for his skill in assisting clients with complex cross-border international challenges and potential issues with U.S. regulators – US Treasury Department (OFAC), Department of Commerce (DOC), Bureau of Industry & Security (BIS), Department of Justice (DOJ) and Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC). Robert has steep OFAC Treasury sanctions experience and regularly represents clients before the DOJ, the US Treasury Department, Commerce and the SEC. Robert routinely represents clients to gain CFIUS approvals for “covered” transactions and regularly makes and supports CFIUS filings on behalf of clients in consultation with the Olshan M&A team.

Tomislav Šunjka is the founder and principal of ŠunjkaLaw, an independent, specialized law firm in Serbia focused on asset tracing and recovery. With a robust background in business law, Tomislav’s deep understanding of transactions, bank transfers, and financial arrangements gives his asset recovery practice a unique edge. Recognized as a leading authority in complex investigations and litigation, he combines strategic thinking with an unwavering focus, delivering unrivaled expertise to every case.
Tomislav’s extensive knowledge of foreign and extraterritorial anti-corruption laws solidifies his role as a top-tier expert in international contexts. His skills as an extraordinary case manager make him highly sought after for multi-jurisdictional cases, with clients engaging him even beyond Serbian borders. He represents victims of financial fraud and is adept in cases of bankruptcy, financial crime, and corruption, as well as civil and commercial disputes, high-level political and business crimes related to anti-corruption and asset recovery.
Mr. Šunjka is the founding Co-chair of the International Bar Association (IBA) Asset Recovery Committee and an elected member of the IBA Legal Practice Division (LPD) Council. A certified auditor in ISO standards 37001 (Anti-bribery) and 37301 (Compliance), he collaborates with renowned organizations such as the UNCITRAL Working Group on Asset Recovery in Insolvency, the World Bank Stolen Asset Recovery Initiative (StAR), and the World Economic Forum Gatekeepers project. His expertise is further acknowledged by his membership in ICC FraudNet, a global network ranked in Chambers Global’s civil fraud section, where he contributes to cases involving white-collar crime, compliance, corporate internal investigations, and enforcement of judgments and awards.

Cody G. Reedman is an accomplished bankruptcy, insolvency, and litigation lawyer. After articling with senior bankruptcy and insolvency lawyer Murray K. Morrison at Morrison & Co. Law Corporation, he has built a practice that combines litigation experience with practical business solutions for clients facing financial challenges or complex disputes.
 

Cody has achieved notable success at Canada's highest court, appearing as lead counsel in a landmark case at the intersection of securities and bankruptcy law. In Poonian v. British Columbia (Securities Commission), 2024 SCC 28, a precedent-setting Supreme Court of Canada decision addressing whether administrative monetary penalties and disgorgement orders survive a discharge from bankruptcy. He currently serves as appellant counsel in Piekut v. His Majesty the King in Right of Canada as Represented by the Minister of National Revenue, another Supreme Court of Canada matter that will resolve important statutory interpretation issues regarding the automatic discharge of government student loans in bankruptcy.

While Cody regularly handles complex commercial matters and precedent-setting cases, he routinely assists bankrupts seeking their discharge from bankruptcy, having achieved exceptional results in both opposed and unopposed discharge applications. This expertise in personal bankruptcy matters continues alongside his growing commercial practice, where he and his team at Reedman Law assist businesses and professionals with sophisticated insolvency issues, restructuring, and complex litigation. His deep understanding of insolvency law, from routine consumer proposals to precedent-setting appeals, allows him to offer sophisticated legal solutions while remaining accessible to clients and referring professionals across British Columbia, Alberta, and Yukon.

Baruch Baigel is the head of Dispute Resolution at Asserson Law Offices. Baruch, a Cambridge and Harvard law school graduate, is a UK-qualified solicitor-advocate and International Arbitrator with extensive experience in England, Europe and the Middle East. 

Baruch has become the go-to name for complex, high-value cross-border claims and defences in the English Court, with particular expertise in Civil Fraud and Asset Recovery. 

Baruch has acted for several household name brands in business-defining cases including the Leviev, Fishman and Steinmetz Groups. 

Over the last decade, three of Baruch’s cases were listed among the Top 20 cases of the year by the Lawyer, including the UK Madoff litigation, the solar panel industry compensation claim under A1P1 of the HRA and a £200m negligence claim against a major UK firm of solicitors. 

Baruch also sits as Israel’s delegate on the ICC Commission on arbitration and ADR is a member of the ICC task force addressing fraud and corruption in arbitration and is on the panel of arbitrators at VIAC, SIAC and AIAC

Gemma is a partner and solicitor advocate with Baker McKenzie's Dispute Resolution team and our market-leading Private Wealth litigation group in London. Gemma has experience in advising clients engaged in disputes related to private wealth, succession and trusts. In such disputes, she acts for trustees, executors, protectors, beneficiaries and interested third parties and is very familiar with all the major offshore jurisdictions. Gemma is a full member of STEP and ACTAPS, and a regular speaker at international conferences about wealth litigation.

Gabriela Ruiz is the Managing Partner of the firm’s Miami office and leads the firm’s Latin America practice. 

Gaby is a highly-regarded litigator and seasoned trial lawyer who represents individual and corporate clients in domestic and cross-border disputes. Her practice includes complex commercial litigation, international judgment enforcement, asset recovery, and defending against government investigations and enforcement actions. 

Gaby is ranked in Chambers Latin America 2024: Corporate Crime & Investigations (International Counsel), Chambers Global 2023: Corporate Crime & Investigations (International Firms), and Chambers Brazil 2022: Corporate Crimes & Investigations (International Firms), with Chambers noting that Gaby is “really smart, very motivated” and “is held in high esteem by clients and peers alike for her notable work representing clients, both corporate and individual, in sophisticated disputes and investigations. Latin-American business publication Latinvex recognized Gaby among its “Latin America: Top 100 Female Lawyers” in 2022 and 2023, and in 2023, Latinvex recognized Gaby among its “Latin America: Top 100 Lawyers.”  The Legal 500 has also recognized Gaby as being “known for cross-border investigations, including cases involving dual proceedings in the U.S. and Latin America.” 

Gaby is trilingual, with fluency in Portuguese and Spanish. 

Alex helped set up the Young Solicitors Family Law Association in 1998. He is a member of Resolution, the International Bar 
Association and a fellow of the International Academy of Family Lawyers. Alex is a qualified mediator and collaborative lawyer 
and is featured in Spear’s Family Law Index’s ‘Top Recommended Family Lawyers’ list. Alex is also listed in Tatler Address 
Book’s Advisory as one of the leading family lawyers in their trusted network of influential and elite private client experts with 
“gilt-edged” expertise.
He is a trustee of the Royal Courts of Justice Citizens Advice Bureau and a regular commentator and speaker on family law

Alexander Cook KC has a litigation-focussed commercial Chancery practice, with a significant emphasis on high value disputes in England & Wales and offshore. His work encompasses all aspects of commercial litigation and arbitration, civil fraud, company law, insolvency, and actions under the Proceeds of Crime Act 2002 (POCA).

Consistently ranked as a leading practitioner in the legal directories, Alexander is recommended in 7 practice areas across the 2024 editions (including in commercial litigation, company, civil fraud, insolvency and the English Bar offshore), being described as “a client’s dream”, “everything that you want in a barrister”, “technically brilliant” with an “encyclopaedic knowledge of case law”, “clear, decisive and commercial”, advocacy which is “assured, secure, persuasive”, and “written work…beyond compare”.

Sunil Abraham is a partner at Cecil Abraham & Partners. He specialises in Corporate and Commercial, Banking and Securities, Fraud Litigation and Asset Recovery disputes as well as in Arbitration disputes. He has significant advocacy experience before the High Court of Malaya, Court of Appeal of Malaysia and Federal Court of Malaysia, as well as before arbitral tribunals under various institutional rules.

He is a Fellow of the Chartered Institute of Arbitrators (UK) and a Fellow of the Malaysian Institute of Arbitrators.

Dato’ Sunil Abraham regularly sits as an arbitrator in commercial and infrastructure related disputes.

He has served as the co-chair of the Asia Pacific Regional Forum of the International Bar Association (IBA), co-chair of the Asia Pacific Arbitration Group of the IBA and as a member of the Management Board of the IBA

He has been recognised as a leading individual by Legal 500 Asia Pacific, Benchmark Litigation and Asialaw Profiles as well as being ranked by Chambers & Partners Asia Pacific in the area of dispute resolution. He has also been recognised in Who’s Who Legal for Commercial Litigation and Arbitration. In 2016, he was named by Asian Legal Business in the Top 40 Under 40 Practitioners in Asia.

Ziva, a solicitor-advocate, advises clients on dispute resolution issues, including complex trust disputes, contested estates and commercial disputes containing fiduciary elements. She counsels individuals and companies on the conduct and the avoidance of disputes and has extensive experience in cross-jurisdictional and international litigation.

David Jandrasits is a Partner and Attorney at Law in Liechtenstein at Schwärzler Attorneys at Law. Key specializations are Trust/Foundation/Corporate Law including all aspects of related Litigation and Dispute Resolution, as well as Asset Recovery. The main areas of activity relate to Private Clients and Private Client Litigation, Disputes regarding Foundation and Trust Law, Banking and Finance, Capital Market Law, Asset Recovery, Cross-Border Commercial/Corporate Litigation as well as White Collar Crime, Trustee Assets Tracing, Anti Money Laundering, Investor Protection.

Described by clients as a "real international statesman," Steve Davidson handles high-profile arbitrations and complex business litigation across the globe. As a recognized leader in international disputes and judgment enforcement by Global Arbitration Review, Legal 500, and others, including Chambers USA as a Band 1 ranked lawyer in International Arbitration/Judgment Enforcement, Steve serves as lead counsel to Fortune 500 corporations and other large companies abroad in cases involving complicated and sensitive contractual issues and business matters. Clients such as BNSF, ExxonMobil, ConocoPhillips, Nokia Solutions and Networks, American Airlines, and Credit Suisse call on Steve to litigate knotty issues through trial, master difficult facts, and pursue all available avenues to obtain a recovery. His cases typically encompass multiple fora and several potential parties and claims, presenting complex enforcement questions. He has handled numerous bench and jury trials.

In the area of international arbitration, Steve has been successful as lead counsel in a number of commercial and investment treaty cases. He has developed a mastery in arbitrations involving complex technologies, in particular telecoms. In 2020, he was featured prominently in GAR’s recognition of Steptoe on its exclusive 100 list: "The modern arbitration practice took root when Steven Davidson in Washington, DC helped Motorola launch multiple claims against Turkish businessman Cem Uzan, his family and companies. That dispute led to successful enforcement proceedings and the second ICSID claim ever filed against Turkey, which the firm settled in the mid-2000s." Steve has also served as an arbitrator in ICC cases.

Steve's success in worldwide enforcement of court judgments and arbitral awards, including provisional and pre-judgment remedies, has been heralded in several prestigious publications. Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Steve Coll described Steve in his New York Times bestselling book Private Empire: ExxonMobil and American Power as "one of the world’s leading specialists in the art of seizing and liquidating assets on behalf of large, aggrieved companies." In connection with his work on behalf of ExxonMobil against Venezuela, Mr. Coll wrote: "For the Steptoe attorneys the late-December Friday afternoon seizure of $300 million belonging to Hugo Chavez's government was like hitting a walk-off home run in the bottom of the ninth before a full house at Yankee Stadium."

Michael Baratz focuses on all aspects of commercial litigation, arbitration, and mediation, as well as judgment enforcement, including many matters with a cross-border emphasis.

Complex Litigation and Arbitration

Michael regularly litigates all phases of commercial disputes in federal and state courts around the country through trial and appeal. He also frequently represents clients in proceedings before a variety of arbitral bodies, including the International Centre for Settlement of Investment Disputes (ICSID); the International Chamber of Commerce (ICC); the Zurich Chamber of Commerce (ZCC); the American Arbitration Association (AAA); and the Financial Industry Regulatory Authority (FINRA).

Judgment Enforcement

Michael represents clients in connection with their efforts to obtain recognition and enforcement of judgments and arbitral awards in courts around the world, and in seeking pre-judgment remedies in these matters.

Barbara advises companies and individuals on a wide range of criminal, regulatory and civil matters, including matters involving the U.S. Department of Justice, the Securities and Exchange Commission, state and local prosecutors’ offices, and other domestic and international enforcement and regulatory agencies.

A seasoned former federal prosecutor who is fluent in Spanish and proficient in Portuguese, Barbara represented the U.S. Department of Justice for more than eleven years, domestically and in Latin America, in international investigations and complex criminal matters. Barbara has unique insight into the workings of multi-national and multi-agency investigations and prosecutions. Chambers and Partners ranked Barbara as one of South Florida’s top attorneys for White Collar Crime and Government Investigations, describing her as “intelligent, creative, compassionate and responsive” and noting that her “vision and service to clients are excellent.”

Featured in the Legal 500’s Hall of Fame and described as “incredibly empathetic and really good to work with” in Chambers Private Wealth Disputes, 2024, Roberta is Head of the Trust and Estate Disputes team.

She has an excellent reputation in representing high net worth individuals, family offices, trustees, protectors, executors and beneficiaries. With wide-ranging expertise covering validity issues, breach of trust, removal applications, construction arguments, freezing injunctions, asset tracing and recovery, Roberta advises on the full remit of estate disputes.

Roberta’s supportive and constructive approach to litigation inspires confidence in her clients. Noted for being sympathetic and calm, she fiercely defends her clients’ best interests, while always considering the wider and long-term implications for their personal, financial and commercial interests. Roberta also works closely with her family and private client colleagues, often advising on divorce issues, post and pre-nuptial agreements, and on stress testing trust structures.

Her reputation as a leader in her field was recognised recently by her appointment as a member of the Association of Contentious Trust and Probate Specialists (ACTAPS) committee.

Michael leads a team that represent a wide and varied client base including leading trust companies and corporate service providers, trustees, family offices, beneficiaries, HNW and UHNW individuals (and their corporates) in a broad range of heavyweight commercial, trust and family disputes.

Michael qualified in 1993, joined Penningtons Manches Cooper in 2002 and became a partner in 2003. He specialises in domestic and international trust and estate litigation including disputed wills, breach of trust claims, administration of estate disputes, and claims under the Inheritance (Provision for Family and Dependants) Act 1975.

In addition, Michael advises on contentious applications in the Court of Protection, succession planning and acting for charities. He has also represented clients in numerous mediations, as well as reported cases, in getting their disputes resolved and regularly gives evidence as an expert witness in court proceedings outside the UK.

Michael is a member of STEP, the world's leading organisation for private wealth professionals, the Association of Contentious Trust and Probate Specialists (ACTAPS) and the Charity Law Association. He has been included by Citywealth in its Leaders Lists for the last four years and is a named individual in Spear's 500.

Annually recommended by the legal directories, The Legal 500 cites him as 'easy to work with and looks after the lay client’s concerns while dealing unobtrusively with the difficulties that arise. Michael Cash has very sound knowledge of the law as well as a good sense of litigation tactics'.

Anthony is a partner with Baker McKenzie's Dispute Resolution team and chair of the market-leading Trusts Disputes group in London. Anthony specialises in advising clients engaged in disputes related to private wealth, succession, trusts and private banking. In such disputes, he acts for trustees, executors, protectors, beneficiaries and interested third parties and is very familiar with all the major offshore jurisdictions.

After reading law at the University of Geneva (Switzerland), I was admitted to the Bar as a qualified „avocat“ in 1988.

I have been practising as attorney uninterruptedly since that date, first as an associate in Geneva and Zurich and thereafter, from 1998 as a partner in an international law firm based in Switzerland, except when I engaged in post- graduate studies which led to a Master in European law from the University of Lausanne in 1994.

A large part of my career was spent in the United Kingdom since from 1999 to 2009, I was the resident partner in charge of my firm‘s London office.

I have issued numerous opinions on Swiss law, with an emphasis on matters presenting international ramifications, banking and finance including shipping finance.

I represent parties before both State and arbitral jurisdictions, including in a counsel selection, strategy definition and/or coordination role in pluri-jurisdictional cases. I have also acted as a Swiss law expert before State or arbitral courts on a number of occasions, including appearing before the High Court of Justice in London.

I have developed a strong practice in cross- border insolvencies, including the recognition and declaration of enforceability of foreign bankruptcy decrees, and including handling criminal aspects when the case arises. I am fluent in German, French, English and Italian and have reasonable command of Spanish and (written) Dutch.

Mark Wilson is head of Gateley’s Complex and International Recovery Work unit.
He has more than 30 years’ experience in all aspects of corporate insolvency, turnaround, and restructuring.
Mark specialises in contentious insolvency, fraud, and professional liability matters, with significant experience in auditor liability claims, as well as bringing claims against, and defending, insolvency practitioners. 
Using his experience to assess risk and quickly identify the viability of claims and defences, Mark has acted for various high-profile, multinational clients, including professional services business, liquidators, and administrators.
He has ranked as a Band 1 lawyer for Restructuring and Insolvency in Chambers and Partners UK 2025, with testimonials highlighting his “insightful analysis, sage advice and commercial acumen”, as well as his “very good strategic overview of where cases are going”.
Mark is also described as a “an absolute titan in his field of contentious insolvency” with “evident intellectual horsepower” and is recognised as a leading partner in Insolvency & Corporate Recovery by Legal 500.

Madlyn is a partner on our restructuring and insolvency team.

Madlyn has more than 25 years of experience representing companies, lending groups, syndicate agents,  global financial institutions, and private credit investors in complex US domestic and cross-border out-of-court restructurings, prepackaged Chapter 11 cases and contentious Chapter 11 cases as well as related litigation matters. She has substantial cross-border insolvency experience (including Chapter 15 cases and parallel proceedings).

Madlyn is regularly called upon by her clients to act as “first chair” trial counsel in contentious restructuring matters and insolvency related litigations. She has deep expertise in metals and mining, energy and infrastructure, consumer products, financial services, agriculture, entertainment, media, communications, shipping, and health care (including device manufacturing and distribution).

Madlyn is ranked as a leading attorney in Chambers USA, Best Lawyers and Expert Guides – Women in Business Law. She has also been named the “Best in Insolvency and Restructuring” – Americas Women in Business Law Awards (2016) by Euromoney. She is a member of Freshfields’ Finance and Risk Committee.

Danielle’s commercial litigation, international arbitration and ADR practice focuses on complex (often cross-border) disputes involving insolvency, fraud, trusts, contract, media, IP, professional negligence claims, corporate and regulatory issues, shareholder disputes and group litigation. Danielle’s experience includes obtaining urgent injunctive relief and freezing orders in the English courts. Much of her work is in emerging areas within the TMT, Cryptocurrency and Blockchain, Energy, Banking and Professional Services sectors.

Alex D. Moglia is founder and president of Moglia Advisors. He serves as chief restructuring officer, turnaround and financial advisor, receiver, assignee for the benefit of creditors, bankruptcy trustee, liquidating trustee, examiner, expert witness, and M&A advisor. Prior to founding Moglia Advisors, Alex was an investment banker at Continental National Bank, and Director of Acquisitions at CNW Corporation, a diversified publicly-traded company. Early in his career, and prior to leaving the practice of law, he was a corporate attorney at Winston & Strawn.

Alex is a member of the International Committee of the National Association of Bankruptcy Trustees, and was a delegate at a recent United Nations conference in Vienna, Austria, on bankruptcy and asset recovery.

An attorney in the Philadelphia office of Marks & Sokolov, Tom represents Western and Russian clients in complex commercial disputes including civil RICO, Foreign Corrupt Practices Act, Convention on the International Sale of Goods, construction litigation, legal malpractice, lender liability, securities fraud, insurance defense and maritime matters. Tom has successfully and effectively litigated numerous complex and high-profile commercial disputes.  

He has represented plaintiff and defense sides in numerous federal and state courts at the trial level and appellate level, and in several arbitrations. He has extensive experience in 28 U.S.C. §1782 matters which permit foreign litigants to take discovery in the United States for use in their home forums.  He has also drafted and negotiated consulting, employment, financing, joint venture, loan, procurement, purchase, sales, real estate and member/shareholder agreements.  

Tom is admitted in Pennsylvania, New Jersey, the U.S. District Courts for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania, New Jersey and Colorado, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit and the U.S. Supreme Court.

Alan advises individuals and families on succession planning as well as specialising in charities, third sector and philanthropy.

On succession planning, Alan helps with wills, trusts, powers of attorney, family business work, inheritance tax-related matters, wealth structures, international succession and the full range of lifetime planning and assistance after someone dies. After death work also includes legal rights and challenges to wills by disappointed beneficiaries and others. Alan has been recognised as a ‘Legal Influencer – Private Client (UK)’ at the Lexology Marketing Awards.

On charities, third sector and philanthropy, Alan’s work includes setting up charities, OSCR-related work, variations, reorganisations and mergers of charities, governance, trustee training, grantmaking and grant-giving administration, funding arrangements, gifting, legacies and gifts in will services. In this area, Alan advises individuals, families, charities (of all sizes and types), public sector bodies as well as corporates on CSR and ESG matters. Alan is a member of the Law Society of Scotland’s charity law committee.

Rebecca Hume represents clients on complex commercial disputes and multi-jurisdictional insolvency cases. She is particularly skilled at cross-border debtor disputes, international fraud, asset tracing and recovery, and international judgement and award enforcement.

Rebecca's assignments often involve complex hedge funds and private equity structures. She is a solicitor often called upon to help clients realise value in distressed situations where there is large-scale fraud or wrongdoing.  Rebecca strategises to find creative solutions to trace and recover assets and monetise claims. Her clientele includes insolvency practitioners and foreign office holders of bankrupt estates, directors and officers, fund managers and administrators, investors and HNWIs located in onshore and offshore jurisdictions.

Rebecca spent over 12 years working offshore and was admitted to practice in the Cayman Islands and the BVI. As well as being involved in complex assignments in these jurisdictions, she frequently co-counsels with other law firms, particularly in the US and Europe.  She has pursued cases in many jurisdictions including the US, The Bahamas, Bermuda, Hong Kong and the PRC, successfully assisting her clients in the recovery of hundreds of millions of dollars.

Rebecca regularly speaks at domestic and international conferences. She is on the Advisory Board of the ThoughtLeaders4 FIRE International Conference on fraud and asset recovery, and on the steering committee of Cambridge Forum's International Enforcement of Judgements and Awards Forum.

Rebecca is Europe Networks Director of IWIRC (International Women's Insolvency & Restructuring Confederation). She also sits on the IWIRC UNCITRAL Committee and is a member of the Europe Network. She is a member of R3 Association of Business Recovery professionals, INSOL and 100WF.

Jorge is a litigation partner in the RBMS Dispute Resolution Team. For over 20 years, Jorge had been dealing with complex cross border disputes, with a special focus on litigation, arbitration and asset-tracing and recovery. He is also experienced in representing liquidators and creditors in complex cross-border restructuring and insolvency cases, both onshore and in offshore jurisdictions. He also handled complex fraud cases involving ponzi schemes across jurisdictions as well as the liquidation of financial institutions.
Jorge has been listed in legal 500 on several occasions and has acted in international arbitrations in some of the major institutions such as ICSID and ICC.

Richard F. Albert represents clients in white collar criminal and regulatory matters, and in civil litigation. He has defended a wide range of matters involving allegations of securities fraud, including claims of market manipulation, insider trading, and accounting violations, as well as alleged antitrust violations, healthcare fraud, Foreign Corrupt Practices Act violations, money laundering, tax fraud, and obstruction of justice. He also has conducted internal investigations and represented public companies, banks, brokerage firms, hedge funds, and their executives in complex civil litigation and arbitration.

Named a leading lawyer by Chambers USA: America’s Leading Lawyers for Business in the area of Litigation: White Collar Crime & Government Investigations, he has been described as a “ferocious cross examiner” and a “fantastic all-around white-collar lawyer” who “has a great way with clients and prosecutors, and very good judgment.” Benchmark Litigation: The Definitive Guide to America’s Leading Litigation Firms & Attorneys has recognized Rich as a “Litigation Star” in the area of White-Collar Crime/Enforcement/Investigations. The Legal 500 United States has recommended him in the areas of White Collar Criminal Defense and Securities Litigation. Who’s Who Legal – The International Who’s Who of Business Lawyers has recognized Rich as a leading business crime defense and investigations lawyer.

Rich is a Fellow of the American College of Trial Lawyers and a co-author of the “White Collar Crime” column in the New York Law Journal. He regularly speaks at continuing legal education seminars on white collar criminal defense and legal ethics.  In 2018, Rich was honored with a Burton Award for Distinguished Legal Writing.

Rich serves on the Board of Directors of the Legal Aid Society, and on the Board of the Federal Bar Foundation of the Federal Bar Council. He is also a former board member of the New York Council of Defense Lawyers.

For years Rich represented indigent defendants as a member of the federal Criminal Justice Act Panel.  Earlier in his career, he served as an Assistant U.S. Attorney in the Southern District of New York, where he conducted a broad range of criminal investigations and trials.

William is a partner in Kingsley Napley’s Dispute Resolution team, based in London.  He deals mainly with civil fraud litigation and asset recovery.  He is Listed in Who's Who Legal Investigation Guide 2023 as Recommended Leaders in Their Field. He is also recommended in the Who's Who Legal: Asset Recovery Global Guide 2024, Who's Who Legal: Investigations Global Guide 2024, and is listed as a Thought Leader in the Who's Who Legal: GIR - Asset Recovery 2024 Guide. 
 
William has specialised in commercial litigation with a particular focus on civil fraud actions since he qualified. He has extensive and wide-ranging litigation experience, having acted in cases involving contractual disputes, breach of fiduciary duty, breach of trust, and insolvency-related litigation.  He is listed in the global directory “Who’s Who of Asset Recovery”, and is ranked in Chambers and Partners and The Legal 500. 

William has acted in many international fraud cases throughout his career, involving the recovery of assets concealed in offshore jurisdictions. He is highly experienced in using freezing injunctions, search orders and disclosure orders in international fraud investigations.  He acts as a supervising solicitor in the execution of search orders.

William's main areas of expertise are civil fraud (often involving multiple jurisdictions), internal fraud investigations, general commercial litigation, (including shareholder disputes) and contentious and fraud related insolvency litigation.

Dr. Diora Ziyaeva is a Partner in the Firm's Commercial Litigation group and US Region Co-Lead in Mining and Natural Resources. Her main areas of practice include investment treaty arbitration, international commercial arbitration, complex commercial litigation and public international law.

Licensed in New York and Uzbekistan and fluent in seven languages, Diora is recognized within the legal community as one of the top international lawyers of her generation. She sits as arbitrator and serves as counsel in a broad range of international matters and is a Member of the ICC International Court of Arbitration.

Over the course of her career, Diora has represented States, corporations, and individuals in disputes under the rules of all the major arbitral institutions, as well as several regional institutions. Diora advises parties in international litigations involving proceedings in foreign and domestic courts, including the United States Supreme Court. She also advises governments, investment firms and asset managers about mitigating risks, evaluating investments in international claims and arbitration awards.

Duane leads Pallas’s New York practice. He represents clients in complex commercial litigation, with a particular focus on restructuring disputes, contested issues in bankruptcy, and cross-border litigation. An experienced trial lawyer, Duane is regularly called upon to provide courtroom leadership for creditors, institutional shareholders, and fund principals in cases where litigation drives recoveries.

Duane is recognised as a leading lawyer in both General Commercial Litigation and Bankruptcy/Restructuring by Chambers USA, where clients describe him as “an extremely talented lawyer,” “thoughtful, quick-witted and commercial,” and “an advocate you want on your side.” He has also been recognised in Lawdragon’s 500 Global Plaintiff Lawyers Guide and by the New York Law Journal and Law360, both of which have named him a “Rising Star.”

In the area of restructuring litigation, Duane has represented ad hoc groups of creditors in a number of significant corporate bankruptcies, including the Chapter 11 cases of Intelsat S.A. and LBI Media, in each case serving as trial counsel in multi-week hearings on contested plans of reorganisation.

In cross-border disputes, Duane has helped recover billions of dollars for institutional investors, including through Section 1782 discovery proceedings that have led to precedent-setting decisions in district and appellate courts throughout the United States.

Marlyn Narkis Assis joined the firm in 2006 when she obtained her certificate of competence, becoming associate in 2012. During her practice at MDU Legal, she gained valuable experience as corporate lawyer, specializing in corporate law, commercial law, real estate, trademark law, migration, health law and public procurement.

Her practice focuses on legal counsel and on supporting local and international companies in all the stages of the business, including the preparation of corporate documents and other issues related to the daily legal needs of the companies such as negotiating contracts, obtaining permits, licenses, or other administrative proceedings with the Panamanian authorities. She assists clients with the legal aspects of real estate and development transactions. She also acts as lawyer in a banking institution, by supervising their proceedings of due diligence.

She has represented our clients in legal affairs related to the Public Procurement Sector, including the preparation of public offers, legal assistance during the bidding procedures, claiming and defending the interests of the clients before the corresponding instances, legal support in the review and governmental contract negotiations, counsel in the writing and review of construction contracts and legal support during the development of projects, including her relationship with contractors and public institutions. Marlyn is the current treasurer of the Latin-American Chapter of the International Women’s Insolvency and Restructuring Confederation (“IWIRC”) and was acknowledged as a leading attorney in transactions law by Chambers Global and Chambers Latin America.

Renowned in High-End Legal Circles

Richard Kaplan stands at the pinnacle of criminal defense law, trusted by discerning clients in big law, elite legal boutiques, and governmental spheres. With over 36 years of unparalleled expertise, Richard has garnered acclaim for his adept handling of complex legal challenges, often achieving outright dismissals. His clientele includes esteemed lawyers, referred by judges and political figures who recognize his mastery in mental health aspects of defense. Richard is sought after for his profound insights into factual intricacies, making him a coveted consultant among legal peers. Confidentiality is the cornerstone of his practice, underpinning his trusted relationships with colleagues and clients alike.

Brianna represents plaintiffs and defendants at all stages of complex commercial litigation. She has particular experience in antitrust, capital markets, and cross border litigation. 

Brianna’s recent experience includes representing institutional investors in connection with appraisal litigation in the Cayman Islands, Bermuda, and Japan, including in precedent-setting Section 1782 discovery proceedings in federal courts across the United States.

Brianna formerly clerked for Judge Charles R. Wilson of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit. 

Shan Greer is an international arbitrator and mediator associated with Arbitra International in London and serves as the Chief Executive Officer of the BVI International Arbitration Centre. Since assuming this role in January 2023, she has leveraged over two decades of experience to promote excellence in arbitration and dispute resolution globally.

Renowned for her pragmatic and commercially astute approach, Shan has advised and represented clients across a broad range of industries in diverse jurisdictions, including the Caribbean, Europe, and North America. Her ability to handle complex disputes with efficiency and fairness has positioned her as a trusted leader in the field.

Shan holds a Master’s degree in Construction Law and Dispute Resolution from King’s College London and is dually qualified as a barrister and solicitor in England, with admissions to practice in Saint Lucia, Saint Vincent, and Belize.

A sought-after arbitrator, adjudicator, and mediator, Shan’s practice includes ad hoc, institutional, international, and domestic arbitrations, seamlessly bridging civil and common law systems. Her dedication to equitable and effective dispute resolution has earned her widespread recognition and respect.

Shan’s deep expertise and strategic insights make her a valuable voice in advancing arbitration and dispute resolution, particularly within the offshore sector.

Peter has first-chaired more than 40 trials and arbitrations and has practiced actively in both New York and California.  His broad commercial and financial practice has included disputes over the interpretation and enforcement of complex financial contracts,  contracts for the development of natural resources, major construction contracts as well as adversary proceedings in bankruptcy court.   He has also maintained a substantial focus on insurance and reinsurance, including several matters involving Bermuda Segregated Account vehicles.  Peter has been named a “Thought Leader” by Who’s Who of International Arbitration.  Prior to forming Chaffetz Lindsey in 2009, Peter served as the Global Head of Litigation for Clifford Chance, leading that firm’s 600+ lawyer litigation practice and serving on the firm’s global management committee.

Alan J. Lipkin regularly advises debtors, committees or groups of creditors, noteholders, and equity holders, major creditors and shareholders, landlords,  and other key parties in chapter 11 and chapter 7 cases and out-of-court workouts.

In addition to his bankruptcy and restructuring expertise, Alan also has substantial experience in insurance insolvency and bank insolvency matters as well as in addressing potential bankruptcy and insolvency issues in structured finance and other complex transactions.

Alan has lectured and authored articles on several business reorganization topics including current bankruptcy issues in mass tort cases, real estate bankruptcies, representation of high-yield bondholders and equity committees, the application of fraudulent transfer statutes to leveraged buy-out transactions, and the bankruptcy laws of emerging growth countries. Alan has spoken on bankruptcy matters concerning Current Bankruptcy Issues in Mass Tort Cases at an ARIAS conference, Bitcoin and Blockchain at a New York City Bar Association CLE, and regarding chapter 11 and workouts to the New York Society of Security Analysts. He also has taught a Strafford CLE course on Fraudulent Conveyance Exposure for Intercorporate Guaranties and a New York Bar Association CLE course on Discovery in Cases under Chapter 15 of the U.S. Bankruptcy Code.

Before joining Chaffetz Lindsey, Alan was a partner and founding member of the Business Reorganization & Restructuring Department at Willkie Farr & Gallagher LLP. He began his legal career as a law clerk to Chief Judge Almeric L. Christian (U.S. District Court for the Virgin Islands).

Peter has dedicated his career to delivering exceptional trust and administration services, building lasting partnerships with high-net-worth individuals, their families, and advisors worldwide.

With over 30 years of experience, Peter specialises in complex trust litigation, asset recovery, and transforming underperforming trusts. His expertise also spans the development of philanthropic initiatives and managing significant business assets held within trust structures. As a former barrister with an extensive background in private and commercial trusts, Peter’s career has been built on his vast knowledge of the international trust sector.

Tameka Davis is a Partner in the British Virgin Islands Litigation & Restructuring practice. Tameka was called to the Bar of England and Wales in 2003 and joined Conyers in 2009. After a brief stint at the International Bar Association, she joined private practice in Jamaica before moving offshore to Anguilla in 2005. She has over 11 years experience in offshore commercial litigation.

Tameka’s practice includes international insolvency, bringing and defending unfair prejudice, breach of contract, conspiracy and asset tracing claims, obtaining and resisting interim relief including disclosure and urgent injunctive relief, and commencing and resisting forum convenien applications. She is particularly skilled at civil procedure and the enforcement of foreign judgments and arbitral awards in the BVI. Tameka appears in the Commercial Division of the High Court of the Virgin Islands and the Court of Appeal.

Tameka has advised many notable entities including, Bacardi International Limited, JSC Kazatomprom a state-owned uranium mining enterprise in Kazakhstan and since 2009, JSC BTA Bank, a Kazakhstan Bank. The latter specifically in relation to its ongoing efforts to recover billions of dollars misappropriated from it by its former chairman Mr Mukhtar Ablyazov. Tameka has also acted in a matter concerning a state-owned aluminum processing plant in Tajikistan and owners of a luxury resort in Anguilla. Tameka has advised and acted for BVI licensed insolvency practitioners, a California Court-Appointed trustee and high net worth individuals, amongst others.