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Erin Broderick
Partner, Eversheds Sutherland (Chicago)
Partner, Eversheds Sutherland (Chicago)
Erin serves as Eversheds Sutherland's (US) Head of Cross-Border Restructuring & Insolvency Group.
Erin has extensive experience advising clients on international and domestic restructuring, financial litigation, and distressed transactions. She represents a diverse range of stakeholders across the dispute and transactional spectrum as well as numerous parties in bankruptcy proceedings and insolvency-related litigation.
Erin has a consistent record of success in high-stakes, high-profile, complex litigation. She has an equally strong track record in achieving consensus and efficient settlement of disputes when it is in her clients' interests. Erin frequently represents investment funds throughout the investment life cycle, including in complex restructurings and commercial litigation. Recognized for her acute business acumen, Erin offers clients proactive, creative and pragmatic solutions in myriad distress scenarios. She is capable of leveraging her M&A and finance experience to cultivate deal solutions in distress situations. She is known for speaking plainly to make complex matters easy to understand and for providing transparent risk assessments.
Adam Kaufmann
Executive Partner, Lewis Baach Kaufmann Middlemiss (New York)
Executive Partner, Lewis Baach Kaufmann Middlemiss (New York)
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
Managing Director, FTI Consulting (Cayman)
Managing Director, FTI Consulting (Cayman)
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.
Spencer Vickers
Co-Chairperson, RISA Cayman (Cayman)
Co-Chairperson, RISA Cayman (Cayman)
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
Partner, Bär & Karrer (Switzerland)
Partner, Bär & Karrer (Switzerland)
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 Kleiner
Head of Private Wealth Disputes, Charles Russell Speechlys (UK)
Head of Private Wealth Disputes, Charles Russell Speechlys (UK)
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
Senior Partner, Lennox Paton (The Bahamas)
Senior Partner, Lennox Paton (The Bahamas)
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 Ozanne
Partner, Walkers (Guernsey)
Partner, Walkers (Guernsey)
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.
Alison is a regular speaker at conferences in Guernsey and the UK. She runs the successful annual Walkers Summer Business Schools for sixth formers in Guernsey and Jersey.
She is recognised in Legal 500’s Hall of Fame, and by Chambers & Partners.
Andrew Wanambwa
Partner, Lewis Silkin (UK)
Partner, Lewis Silkin (UK)
I am a partner in the Dispute Resolution team. My practice focuses on domestic and cross-border litigation and dispute resolution.
Dispute Resolution
I have advised on several large-scale disputes before the English High Court, including:
- Advising senior executives of a multinational corporation in a $1.5bn claim for conspiracy to injure;
- Advising a multinational telecoms company in a £100m+ claim involving breach of fiduciary duty;
- Advising an international bank on a £100m+ professional liability claim against its former legal advisers;
- Advising a large corporate entity on a high value application for the rectification of its pension trust deed.
In addition to my London-based work I have acted in litigation and arbitral matters involving emerging markets such as Zimbabwe and Pakistan. I have also worked in Hong Kong and the British Virgin Islands. While in Hong Kong I defended a $1.5 billion professional indemnity claim against one of the Big 4 accountancy firms. In the British Virgin Islands I advised on, among other matters, a $600 million economic tort claim involving Russian parties and off-shore corporate entities.
Nicholas Kennedy
Partner. Baker McKenzie (Dallas)
Partner. Baker McKenzie (Dallas)
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.
Brigeeta Richdale
Co-Chair, Luxury Brand Protection and Enforcement, Cozen O'Connor (Canada)
Co-Chair, Luxury Brand Protection and Enforcement, Cozen O'Connor (Canada)
Brigeeta represents some of the world’s most famous trademarks and IP owners. Brigeeta’s clients seek her counsel and advice in all aspects of regulatory investigations and proceedings, intellectual property enforcement, and related litigation. She focuses on counterfeit and online IP infringements, matters involving allegations of fraud, insider trading, and market manipulation.
James Fox
Head of Dispute Resolution Middle East, DWF (UAE)
Head of Dispute Resolution Middle East, DWF (UAE)
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 A. Shivji KC
Barrister, 4 Stone Buildings (UK)
Barrister, 4 Stone Buildings (UK)
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 Berger
Partner, DLA Piper (New York/Washington DC)
Partner, DLA Piper (New York/Washington DC)
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.
Joshua Rievman
Partner, Dunning Rievman & Macdonald (New York)
Partner, Dunning Rievman & Macdonald (New York)
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 Sainati
Partner, Wiley (Washington DC)
Partner, Wiley (Washington DC)
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
Partner, Friedman Kaplan (New York)
Partner, Friedman Kaplan (New York)
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.
Kathy Patrick
Partner, Gibbs & Bruns (Texas)
Partner, Gibbs & Bruns (Texas)
Kathy’s cases run the gamut of high profile, high dollar, and high risk cases. She has represented clients pursuing recoveries for securities frauds in Brazil, Thailand, and Indonesia, the private prison industry, the waste disposal industry, and in mortgage-backed securities. She has also pursued commercial cases for clients seeking to enforce leveraged buyout agreements, construction contracts, and corporate indemnities. On the defense side, she successfully defended a client accused of a market allocation conspiracy in the North Sea, defended the outside directors of Enron and Westar in regulatory investigations and securities litigation, and is leading the defense of a large energy company in environmental and energy litigation. Kathy’s representative clients include: Occidental Petroleum Corporation, ExxonMobil, PIMCO, BlackRock, Trust Company of the West, Invesco, Western Asset Management, the former outside directors of Enron Corporation and the State of Arizona.
Matthew McGill
Partner, Gibson Dunn (Washington DC)
Partner, Gibson Dunn (Washington DC)
Matthew D. McGill is a partner in the Washington, D.C. office of Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher and Co-Chair of the firm’s Judgment and Arbitral Award Enforcement and Betting and Gaming Practice Groups. He also is a member of the firm’s Appellate and Constitutional Law and Sports Law Practice Groups.
A three-time “Litigator of the Week” (The AmLaw Litigation Daily), Matthew has been ranked by Chambers USA in Nationwide Appellate Law (2007-2024) and recognized by The National Law Journal as a 2020 “Litigation Trailblazer” for his pioneering work enforcing judgments against foreign sovereigns. Most recently, Matthew has been named to Lawdragon’s 2024 “500 Leading Litigators in America” guide and was listed as a “Leading Global Litigator” for 2023. Matthew has also been featured in the 2024 edition of The Best Lawyers in America® for his work in Gaming Law. For his work toward legalizing sports wagering and confining the Wire Act to its intended scope, Matthew has been recognized by Law360 as a 2019 Sports Law “MVP” and “2020 Sports & Entertainment Trailblazer” by The National Law Journal.
Nina Marino
Partner, Kaplan Marino (Los Angeles)
Partner, Kaplan Marino (Los Angeles)
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.”
Shane Hardy
Chair, Canadian Intellectual Property Practice Group, Cozen O'Connor (Canada)
Chair, Canadian Intellectual Property Practice Group, Cozen O'Connor (Canada)
Shane is a strategic business adviser who has assisted in the acquisition, licensing, and marketing of some of the world’s most famous trademarks and IP assets. Shane is one of a select few Canadian practitioners recognized for his experience in commercial transactions regarding intellectual property assets and is frequently called upon by brand owners around the world to assist with their international acquisition and licensing plans. Shane has assisted clients with cross-border acquisitions where target entities have an intellectual property focus and is a leader of the firm's luxury law protection team.
Tom Sullivan
Senior Counsel, Marks & Sokolov (Philadelphia/Moscow)
Senior Counsel, Marks & Sokolov (Philadelphia/Moscow)
Tom has extensive experience representing Western and Russian clients in complex commercial disputes involving Bi-Lateral Investment Treaties, Investor-State Arbitration enforcement actions, the internal corporate affairs doctrine, civil-RICO, breach of contract and fraud. He also represents entities subject to U.S. economic sanctions, advises on sanctions compliance issues and has obtained OFAC licenses for the release of blocked property.
He has successfully litigated numerous matters under 28 U.S.C. §1782 which permits foreign litigants to take discovery in the U.S. for use in litigation matters pending, or within reasonable contemplation, outside the U.S. He authored Chapter 7 of Obtaining U.S. Discovery For Use In Non-U.S. Tribunals Pursuant To 28 U.S.C. § 1782, Juris Publishing LLC 2020.
David Momborquette
Partner, McDermott Will & Emery (New York)
Partner, McDermott Will & Emery (New York)
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 Apicella
Partner, Wiggin and Dana (New York)
Partner, Wiggin and Dana (New York)
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
Member, Miller & Chevalier Chartered (Washington DC)
Member, Miller & Chevalier Chartered (Washington DC)
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.
Howard Fischer
Partner, Moses & Singer (New York)
Partner, Moses & Singer (New York)
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 Catanese
Partner, Foley & Lardner (New York)
Partner, Foley & Lardner (New York)
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
Managing Director, Stout (New York)
Managing Director, Stout (New York)
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 Von Mehren
Senior Associate, Freshfields (New York)
Senior Associate, Freshfields (New York)
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
Senior Partner, Miles Preston (UK)
Senior Partner, Miles Preston (UK)
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
Partner, Payne Hicks Beach (UK)
Partner, Payne Hicks Beach (UK)
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
Partner, Dunning Rievman & Macdonald (New York)
Partner, Dunning Rievman & Macdonald (New York)
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).
Lori Marks-Esterman
Executive Committee Member, Chair, Olshan Frome Wolosky
Executive Committee Member, Chair, Olshan Frome Wolosky
Lori Marks-Esterman is among the nation’s leading litigators representing investors and other stakeholders in capital markets matters and other complex commercial disputes. She is a seasoned trial attorney proficient in handling capital markets litigation and corporate governance disputes and she chairs Olshan’s Litigation Practice.
Hedge funds, private equity companies, shareholder activists, real estate developers, and other public and private entities entrust their most challenging litigation matters to Lori. She litigates and has secured critical wins in multimillion- and multibillion-dollar litigation matters in influential jurisdictions in securities-related litigation, M&A disputes, and cases involving corporate governance, shareholder activism, breach of contract, breach of fiduciary duty, and D&O liability.
Lori also excels in general commercial litigation, assessing risk, defining strategy, and devising business solutions that drive value. She has prevailed in business, contract, and investor disputes, real estate litigation, business tort cases, and commercial employment-related claims.
Investors in private and public companies routinely rely on Lori in high-profile contentious activist matters. She has served as lead trial counsel in several highly sophisticated matters tried in the Delaware Court of Chancery and New York courts.
Matt Kaiser
Partner, Kaiser (Washington DC)
Partner, Kaiser (Washington DC)
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
Partner, Morgan & Morgan (Panama)
Partner, Morgan & Morgan (Panama)
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.
Zachary Bluestone
Shareholder, Bluestone (Washington DC)
Shareholder, Bluestone (Washington DC)
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
Of Counsel, Foley & Lardner (New York)
Of Counsel, Foley & Lardner (New York)
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.
Thomas Eymond-Laritaz
Founder & CEO, Highgate (UK)
Founder & CEO, Highgate (UK)
Thomas Eymond-Laritaz is the Founder & CEO of Highgate, a strategic advisory firm expert in dispute resolution and special situations. Thomas has advised more than a dozen Presidents and Prime Ministers, and numerous CEOs and prominent individuals throughout the world on large-scale disputes, crises and philanthropic projects.
Thomas worked for the French Prime Minister in Paris, and served as senior political adviser to the Bulgarian Prime Minister in Sofia and to the Georgian President in Tbilisi. He worked for five years in Kyiv as Chief of Staff to Victor Pinchuk, one of Ukraine’s most prominent investors. Before setting up Highgate in 2020, Thomas served as Managing Director at Mercury and Executive Director at APCO Worldwide in London.
Thomas has a longstanding passion for philanthropy and sustainability. He worked for the French Ministry of Environment and played a key role in the creation of the first international Emissions Trading System (ETS). He designed and led the largest philanthropic foundation in Eastern Europe, and spearheaded the creation of an Aspen Institute in both Ukraine and the U.K. He currently sits on the board of the Aspen Institute Kyiv.
Thomas is a French and British citizen. He graduated from the Ecole des Mines de Paris and the Corps des Mines.
Andrea Smith
Partner, Gibson Dunn (New York)
Partner, Gibson Dunn (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 Gluck
Partner, Holland & Knight (New York)
Partner, Holland & Knight (New York)
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."
Genevieve Quierin
Partner, Stephenson Harwood (UK)
Partner, Stephenson Harwood (UK)
Genevieve acts for corporate and individual clients in a broad range of commercial disputes. She frequently represents companies in the banking and finance, private equity, hospitality and leisure, retail, media and telecoms sectors. Her expertise spans pre-action strategic advice to directors, shareholders and company founders through to high value, multi-jurisdictional High Court litigation.
Nick Vamos
Partner, Peters & Peters (UK)
Partner, Peters & Peters (UK)
The former Head of Special Crime and Head of Extradition at the Crown Prosecution Service, Nick has unique expertise and insight into complex, international, high-profile and sensitive criminal matters.
In Chambers 2024, Nick is described as a brilliant lawyer who is great at managing client expectations", and in Legal 500 2024, one client said "Nick is a fantastic lawyer whose modesty and charm belies his high-profile and his incredible client list".
Charlene Sun
Partner, DLA Piper
Partner, DLA Piper
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 Wescott
Partner, JMW (UK)
Partner, JMW (UK)
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.
Toby Graham
Partner, Farrer & Co (UK)
Partner, Farrer & Co (UK)
Toby specialises in contentious trusts and estates, usually of high-value with international elements. He has recently been involved in trust disputes before courts in England, The Bahamas, Bermuda, BVI, Cayman, Cyprus, Guernsey, Jersey, New Zealand, Singapore, Switzerland and TCI.
Head of Farrer & Co’s contentious trusts and estates group, Toby has experience of a broad range of disputes such as third party claims; validity issues; breach of trust; Hastings Bass; applications for approval under VTA; disputes over investment performance; Inheritance (Provision for Family and Dependants) Act 1975 and validity challenged to wills.
Toby works with an international network of experienced advisers, ensuring his clients receive first class advice within their jurisdiction.
Toby qualified as a solicitor in 1992 and joined Farrer & Co in 2007.
Emily Ward
Partner, Continuum Legal Group (Atlanta)
Partner, Continuum Legal Group (Atlanta)
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 Brazil
Partner, BCL Solicitors (UK)
Partner, BCL Solicitors (UK)
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
Founding Partner, Duarte Forssell Advogados (Brazil)
Founding Partner, Duarte Forssell Advogados (Brazil)
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).
Oleg (Alex) Stolyar
Partner, Loeb & Loeb (Los Angeles)
Partner, Loeb & Loeb (Los Angeles)
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
Managing Partner & Attorney at Law, Amann Partners (Liechtenstein)
Managing Partner & Attorney at Law, Amann Partners (Liechtenstein)
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
Attorney, Barron Law (Atlanta)
Attorney, Barron Law (Atlanta)
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.
Hannes Arnold
Senior Partner, Gasser Partner (Liechtenstein)
Senior Partner, Gasser Partner (Liechtenstein)
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
Partner, Duarte Forssell Advogados (Brazil)
Partner, Duarte Forssell Advogados (Brazil)
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
Partner, Gibson Dunn (UK)
Partner, Gibson Dunn (UK)
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 Mauron
Partner, LALIVE (Switzerland)
Partner, LALIVE (Switzerland)
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.
Robert True
Of Counsel, Quinn Emanuel (Australia)
Of Counsel, Quinn Emanuel (Australia)
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.
Robert Appleton
Partner, Olshan Frome Wolosky (New York)
Partner, Olshan Frome Wolosky (New York)
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
Founder and Principal, ŠunjkaLaw (Serbia)
Founder and Principal, ŠunjkaLaw (Serbia)
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 Reedman
Founder & Managing Lawyer, Reedman Law (Canada)
Founder & Managing Lawyer, Reedman Law (Canada)
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
Head of Dispute Resolution, Asserson Law Offices (UK)
Head of Dispute Resolution, Asserson Law Offices (UK)
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 Willingham
Partner, Baker McKenzie (UK)
Partner, Baker McKenzie (UK)
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
Managing Partner, Ford O'Brien Landy (Miami / LATAM)
Managing Partner, Ford O'Brien Landy (Miami / LATAM)
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 Carruthers
Founding Partner, Hughes Fowler Carruthers
Founding Partner, Hughes Fowler Carruthers
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
Barrister, 4 Stone Buildings (UK)
Barrister, 4 Stone Buildings (UK)
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”.
Aniz Ahmad Amirudin
Partner, Cecil Abraham & Partners (Malaysia)
Partner, Cecil Abraham & Partners (Malaysia)
Aniz Ahmad Amirudin was admitted to practise as an Advocate and Solicitor of the High Court of Malaya and has been in active practice for close to 20 years specialising in a wide range of complex commercial and civil disputes having appeared as counsel in all levels of Malaysian Courts with special focus on Construction & Infrastructure. He has extensive experience in both advisory and advocacy aspects in these areas and has been involved in both international and domestic arbitrations held under the auspices of the AIAC, SIAC, ICC and LMAA rules.
Aniz also actively sits both as an Arbitrator and as an Adjudicator on various construction and commercial disputes being a panel member of more than 10 institutes around the world including London, Dubai, Abu Dhabi China and Japan.
Aniz is also a Committee Member of the Bar Council Arbitration and Construction Law Committee and Committee Member of the ICC Malaysia Arbitration Committee.
Apart from Arbitration, Aniz has also been actively involved in securing worldwide freezing injunctions and tracing of assets.
From being recognised by the Global Arbitration Review 100, The Legal 500 Asia Pacific and the Asia Law Profiles, Aniz has also been recognised as a Litigation Star by Benchmark Litigation Asia-Pacific in 2023 and 2024.
Ziva Robertson
Partner, Charles Russel Speechlys
Partner, Charles Russel Speechlys
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.
Gabriela Scanlon
Founder, MBScanlon (South America)
Founder, MBScanlon (South America)
As a dual-qualified lawyer, admitted to practice in New York, Washington, D.C. and Brazil, Gabriela is able to efficiently navigate different legal systems and provide clients with innovative legal strategies and techniques.
Before founding the firm, Gabriela practiced at Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom in São Paulo, where she handled corporate matters, Kobre & Kim in both New York and Washington, D.C., and Paul Hastings in Washington, D.C., where she handled Latin America-focused litigation and government enforcement.
David Jandrasits
Partner and Attorney at Law, Schwärzler Attorneys at Law (Liechtenstein)
Partner and Attorney at Law, Schwärzler Attorneys at Law (Liechtenstein)
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.
Gabriel Bragança
Partner, Sacramone, Orleans e Bragança Advogados (Brazil)
Partner, Sacramone, Orleans e Bragança Advogados (Brazil)
Lawyer. Experience of 20 (twenty) years of experience in conflicts involving highly complex matters of Private Law, general litigation, contracts and legal consultancy, having worked as a partner in other renowned law firms in the area. Participated in a specialization course in Business Law, with a concentration in Civil Procedure and Contract Law at FGV Direito Rio.
Master's and PhD in Commercial Law from the Pontifical Catholic University of São Paulo. Recognized among the 500 most admired lawyers by Análise Advocacia in the years 2018, 2019 and 2021 in civil and banking litigation. Recognized as a partner in the area of Dispute Resolution, Arbitration and Bankruptcy by Chambers and Partners Brazil, Leaders League and Legal 500. Recognized in the area of Bankruptcy/Restructuring in 2023 by Chambers and Partners Brazil. Member of the arbitration panel of MEDARB, CAMES and CAMESC. Member of the Study Commission on Financial Institutions of the OAB/SP. Coordinator of the Competition Law Commission of the São Paulo School of Law. Member of the Bankruptcy Law Commission of the OAB/SP. Associated with the Institute of Lawyers of São Paulo – IASP, and member of the Banking and Real Estate Law Commissions and Vice-President of the Bankruptcy Law Commission of the IASP. Member of TMA – Brazil (Turnaround Management Association). Member of IBR – Brazilian Institute for Studies on Judicial Recovery of Companies. Member of CBAR – Brazilian Arbitration Committee. Author and Co-author of several academic articles and books.
Josh Kemp
Partner, ADG Legal (UAE)
Partner, ADG Legal (UAE)
With 16 years’ specialising in commercial litigation and arbitration, as well as construction and infrastructure, Josh leads the firm’s International Disputes, and Contentious Construction practices.
Josh’s commercial disputes practice focuses mostly on shareholder and joint venture disputes, major fraud investigations, contentious insolvency, enforcement and asset recovery. Josh was recently recognized as an Up and Coming disputes lawyer in the Chambers & Partners Global Legal Rankings.
He regularly acts in DIFC Court proceedings and has acted in international arbitrations in many of the major institutions such as ICC, LCIA, DIFCLCIA, DIAC and JAMS.
In the construction sphere, Josh has acted in litigation and arbitration for a range of industry clients such as major engineering construction contractors, O&M contractors, government authorities, employers, consultants and subcontractors.
Josh has a particularly strong track record acting for contractors in arbitration and litigation concerning major infrastructure projects, having successfully led cases recovering several hundred million dollars on delayed, complex projects.
Having read law in Australia, Josh subsequently studied a Master of Laws and was admitted as a legal practitioner in 2007. He is also an admitted attorney in the State of New York.
Josh is well-known for his thorough and pragmatic approach to complex problems and his commitment to reaching the best commercial outcomes for his clients.
Josh currently sits as Co-Chair of the Legal Committee for the Arab- Brazilian Chamber of Commerce, which boasts several thousand members across Brazil and the 22 countries of the League of Arab States.
Laura Smolowe
Partner, Munger Tolles & Olson (Los Angeles)
Partner, Munger Tolles & Olson (Los Angeles)
Steven Davidson
Partner, Steptoe (Washington DC)
Partner, Steptoe (Washington DC)
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
Partner, Steptoe (Washington DC)
Partner, Steptoe (Washington DC)
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 Llanes
Partner, Gelber Schachter & Greenberg (Miami)
Partner, Gelber Schachter & Greenberg (Miami)
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.”
Bernhard Motal
Partner, Gasser (Liechtenstein)
Roberta Harvey
Partner, Forsters (UK)
Partner, Forsters (UK)
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 Pulford
Partner, Pinsent Masons (UK)
Partner, Pinsent Masons (UK)
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 Cash
Partner, Penningtons Law (UK)
Partner, Penningtons Law (UK)
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 Poulton
Partner, Baker McKenzie (UK)
Partner, Baker McKenzie (UK)
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.
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