Miguel Cases is the co-managing partner of Cases & Lacambra. He leads the Commercial & Corporate law and the Financial Services Group, including its Asset Recovery practice. He is qualified to practice both in Spain and the Principality of Andorra where he is the resident partner. He is recognized in major legal directories such as Chambers& Partners, Legal 500 and Best Lawyers as leader in his fields of practice.

He has extensive experience advising credit institutions and investment services firms, being the legal counsel of several national and international financial institutions, public administrations and investment funds in their regulatory activity, anti-money laundering policies, fraud prevention, banking agreements, and specially complex cross border disputes including asset recovery in Andorra where he has advised local and foreign regulators, financial institutions and governmental agencies in fraud and money laundering cases.

He is a regular lecturer in international business schools in his specialty areas and regularly publishes about regulatory framework applicable to the rendering of financial services.

Cases & Lacambra is a Client focused international law Firm, with a deep commitment to offer the best comprehensive advice in business law. The Firm, with presence in Europe and America, has a highly tested track record in complex transactions involving the financial sector, special situations, financial markets regulations, cross-border disputes, asset tracing and recovery and transactions with a relevant tax sensibility. Cases & Lacambra teams are high-profile, committed to excellence and cross-border oriented.

Fabio Virzi is a Partner of Cases & Lacambra in Spain. He is a member of the Litigation and Arbitration practice at the Firm’s Madrid office.

Fabio has extensive an experience advising all kind of clients in the resolution of civil and commercial disputes, both in the pre-litigation phase and during the proceedings..

He specializes in civil and commercial litigation before the Spanish Courts and has an extensive experience in matters relating to obligations and contracts, noncontractual liability, corporate affairs, unfair competition, directors’ liability, shareholders disputes, amongst others. Furthermore, Fabio has a strong track record in the enforcement of national and foreign judgments and awards, as well as in asset tracing and recovery.

Fabio is an expert on litigation relating to the finance, banking, construction, and insurance industries sectors, as well as to M&A transactions and private equity.

Fabio is also an expert in the field of domestic and international arbitration. He has taken part in domestic arbitration proceedings before the leading Spanish courts of arbitration (the Civil and Commercial Court of Arbitration and the Madrid Court of Arbitration, etc.), as well as in international arbitrations under the rules of the International Chamber of Commerce (ICC).

Derek is a partner in the Toronto office of Davies Ward Phillips & Vineberg LLP, a leading Canadian law firm that is regularly at the center of Canada’s most complex, high-stakes and high-profile business litigation. Davies regularly advises international blue-chip firms – including mining, financial, high-tech and telecom businesses – at all stages of fraud, misappropriation and asset recovery litigation.

Derek is a go-to litigator for clients involved in large and complex commercial disputes, including fraud, conspiracy and misappropriation claims, securities litigation, mining litigation and commercial contractual disputes. These have included numerous precedent-setting motions, trials and appeals for high-profile Canadian and multinational corporations.

Derek has appeared as lead counsel before a variety of courts across Canada and several tribunals, including the Ontario Securities Commission and the Canadian Competition Tribunal. He was recognized as a 2016 Lexpert Rising Star – Leading Lawyers Under 40, a “Future Leader” by Who’s Who Legal: Litigation, a “Next Generation Lawyer” for Dispute Resolution by The Legal 500 Canada, and a “Litigation Star” and 2018 “Emerging Talent of the Year” by Benchmark Canada. More recently, Derek was co-lead counsel for one of the world’s largest mining companies in Labrador Nickel Royalty Limited Partnership v. Vale Canada Limited et al., a complex commercial dispute that Benchmark Canada recognized as 2019 “Impact Case of the Year” for Canada.

Christopher J. Redmond is the founder and principal at the Redmond Law Firm, LLC. His practice is focused on complex international litigation, asset tracing and recovery, and cross-border insolvency proceedings.

Christopher has been a delegate at UNCITRAL Working Group V (Insolvency) since 1999, first as a delegate for the American Bar Association and for the last eleven (11) years, as a member of the United States delegation. He continues to also serve as Chair of the ABA UNCITRAL Task Force.

Christopher has also served as a U.S. delegate to UNODC (United National Office of Drugs and Crimes), addressing issues of commercial fraud on a worldwide basis and coordination between the public and private sectors. As a U.S. member of ICC FraudNet, (ranked as a Band One International Group in Asset Recovery by Chambers), he is counsel in a number of international cases, including acting as counsel for the joint liquidators in the Stanford International Bank proceeding.

He is an experienced trial counsel in both jury and civil trials including a number of Chapter 15 proceedings. He has served as a joint liquidator in the Isle of Man and the Channel Islands. He has served as a Panel Trustee in Kansas since 1978 and has handled over 12,000 insolvency cases, from consumer cases to business cases. He has also served as a Chapter 11 Trustee in a number of business cases and served as counsel for the official unsecured creditors committee in a number of billion dollar insolvency cases.

Christopher is a Fellow of the American College of Bankruptcy, a Fellow of the International Insolvency Institute, has been listed in Best Lawyers for over thirty (30) years and is also recognized by Who’s Who Legal International as one of the top five (5) recovery lawyers in North America.

Skjørshammer is one of Norway”s leading experts within restructuring and insolvency. Skjørshammer acts for domestic and international clients in financial restructurings, debt negotiations and bankruptcies, and he advises creditors, shareholders, investors and board of directors on all aspects of insolvency law. His practice further includes advising Norwegian and international banks in the handling of deferred loans.

Skjørshammer has been involved both as an adviser and publicly appointed as chairman of debt negotiations committees and as bankruptcy trustee in many of the largest and most complex cases in Norway during the recent years. He is recognised for his strong commitment and solution-oriented advice, and is highly acknowledged for his project management skills in complex projects where commercial understanding and industry insight is a prerequisite.

Being Norway”s exclusive representative of ICC FraudNet, an organisation specialised in asset-recovery with representatives in more than 80 countries, Skjørshammer has considerable experience in representing Norwegian clients in matters involving other jurisdictions. His practice encompasses both matters relating to the selection of local partners and project management.

The international rating agencies Chambers Europe and Legal 500 ranks Skjørshammer as one of the leading restructuring and insolvency lawyers in Norway. Skjørshammer is a strong communicator and widely used as a lecturer on issues related to restructurings and the handling of financial challenges, both for fellow lawyers and law students.

Stephen Baker is an English Barrister, Jersey Advocate and Senior Partner of specialist litigation and dispute resolution practice based in Jersey Channel Islands, Baker & Partners.

Having been called to the English Bar in 1989, Stephen is a highly-experienced Court room Advocate, specialising in complex criminal and regulatory law, as well as international commercial and trusts litigation.

Stephen is a specialist in conducting investigations into the flow of suspected corrupt payments made to politicians through Jersey and has been responsible for suspicious activity reports and investigations on behalf of both the Attorney General of Jersey and the Jersey Financial Services Commission.

He also has expertise in cases involving complex fraud and money laundering, particularly those with an international and political dimension. In the UK, Stephen has been instructed to prosecute by the Serious Fraud Office, the Inland Revenue, Her Majesty’s Customs and Excise, and the Department of Public Prosecutions Head Quarters.

Outside of Jersey and the UK, he has advised the United Nations on matters of confiscation and been instructed by a large non-European state to advise on meeting legislative standards set by the Financial Action Task Force. He is an appointed Crown Advocate and has regularly acted for foreign governments including the Federal Republic of Brazil, the Islamic Republic of Pakistan, and the Kenyan Anti-Corruption Commission.

Stephen regularly speaks on the topics of corruption and asset recovery to a global audience, and is frequently asked by the national media to comment on matters of international co-operation in compliance and confiscation.

Stephen is the Jersey representative of FraudNet and also sits on the board of the Jersey Institute of Law.

In 2017, Stephen gained international peer recognition for his work in asset recovery, having been appointed Senior Vice Chair of the International Bar Association’s Asset Recovery Subcommittee. Throughout his two-year appointment, Stephen will engage with IBA’s global membership and work with other IBA committees to contribute to the organisation’s conferences.

Baker & Partners

Baker & Partners is a specialist litigation and dispute resolution practice based in Jersey Channel Islands. The firm provides objective, clear and practical advice and has been at the forefront of some the Island’s most complex and high value litigation cases.

Since its inception in 2003, Baker & Partners has gained a global reputation for its expertise in its niche practice areas and regularly appears among other high ranking organisations in both the Legal 500 and Chambers & Partners directories.