Alejandro Pignataro is the Founding Partner of Pignataro Abogados, where he leads the Asset Tracing & Recovery Practice. He obtained his LL.M. in American Law with a concentration in International Business Practice from Boston University in 2003, and his JD from the University of Costa Rica in 2000.

Alejandro has devoted over 20 years of professional practice to provide legal counsel to foreign corporations and investors in Costa Rica. His expertise is in Corporate Law. Furthermore, he frequently serves as local counsel to receiverships and private counsel in multi-jurisdictional fraud cases, directing the domestic legal proceedings, interfacing with the enforcement agencies involved, and attending to the administration of the Receivership Estate.

The Firm’s Fraud and Business work team is assisted by Associates with vast experience in litigation and arbitration in Costa Rica.

Mr. Pignataro is the Costa Rican representative for ICC FraudNet. He is fluent in English, Spanish and French.

PIGNATARO ABOGADOS was established in 2015 as a boutique corporate law firm committed to providing top-tier legal advice to select corporate and individual clients doing business in Costa Rica and the Caribbean Basin region. The firm brings together a group of leading corporate law practitioners and civil litigation experts with an insightful understanding of the local market and its legal challenges. Our practice focuses on this specific array of fields of expertise in order to guarantee highly technical, pertinent legal advice with a business perspective.

Guillermo Jorge is a partner at Bruchou, Fernandez Madero & Lombardi, a top-tier full service law firm in Argentina, where he leads the practice of Compliance, Internal Investigations & Business Crime.

Prior to joining Bruchou, Guillermo was the founding partner of Governance Latam in Argentina, a top compliance and investigations boutique. Guillermo has more than 20 years of experience representing victims of fraud and corruption and in preventing and enforcing anti-bribery and anti-money laundering standards. He has a unique experience in helping Governments to set up and train anti-bribery and anti-money laundering agencies across Latin America as well as in helping companies to establish and implement governance and compliance structures.

Guillermo has an extensive involvement in the field of asset recovery. He has served as an expert on several Working Groups at the United Nations and at the World Bank. In that capacity, he has written the Chapter on Asset Recovery of the “Technical Guide to the UNCAC” (https://http://www.unodc.org/documents/corruption/Technical_Guide_UNCAC.pdf) and the Handbook on Asset Recovery for the Asian Pacific Economic Cooperation (http://publications.apec.org/publication-detail.php?pub_id=1666). Guillermo has also conducted scoping missions for the Stolen Asset Recovery Initiative in Argentina, Peru and Paraguay, and collaborated with several of the initiative’s publications, including “The Asset Recovery Handbook”, “The Puppet Masters”, “On the take: Criminalizing Illicit Enrichment to Fight Corruption”, and “Identification and Quantification of the Proceeds of Bribery”.

Back in 2000, Guillermo was part of the legal team that helped the Peruvian Government to prosecute and extradite some associates of Alberto Fujimori from Argentina and that lead to the recovery of more than USD 170 million. Since then, he has been consulted by the Governments of Argentina, Brazil, Bolivia, Chile, Panama, Peru and Paraguay on several asset recovery related matters.

Guillermo has also an extensive academic involvement. He is Global Adjunct Professor of New York University (USA) and Senior researcher at the Center for Anticorruption Studies at San Andrés University (Argentina). In the field of asset recovery, Guillermo has authored Recuperación de Activos de la Corrupción, the first book on corruption asset recovery published in Spanish (Editores del Puerto, Buenos Aires, 2008) as well as several articles, including, among others, “The Peruvian Efforts to Recover Proceeds from Montesino´s Criminal Network of Corruption”, in Pieth, M. (ed.), Recovering Stolen Assets, Peter Lang, Bern, 2008, available at http://live.v1.udesa.edu.ar/files/uahumanidades/libros/2008jorge.pdf and “International Standards against Money Laundering” (ICC, the FraudNet Compendium, 2009).

The Firm has successfully litigated many major asset recovery, money laundering and fraud claims in the Commonwealth Caribbean. We have been successful in recovering millions of dollars in assets for our clients. Our team of lawyers is particularly skilled in addressing the multijurisdictional issues which arise in litigation as a result of the Asset Tracing and Recovery tools which we employ on behalf of our clients.

Peter D. Maynard, Counsel & Attorneys, is widely recognised for its expertise and efficiency. We devote our time not only to solving clients” problems but to anticipating and preventing them. We are well known for our ability to develop creative solutions based on an extensive knowledge of key industry sectors and legal practice.We not only seek to be an adviser, counsellor, and advocate for our clients, but also a team member dedicated to achieving mutual goals. Whether providing counsel to an individual or putting together an international corporate transaction, our attorneys have one overall goal: to get results for our clients by providing the best possible job in terms of quality work, timely service and sensitivity to cost.

Asset Tracing, Bankruptcy Law, Civil Litigation, Corporate Law, Intellectual Property Law/Trademark & Patents, Trusts.Fraud/Business Crime Profile: Peter D. Maynard Counsel and Attorneys advises corporations and individuals in connection financial institutions, fraud (public or private), money laundering, liquidations, receivers, and asset tracing and recovery, asset protection, and recovery of assets, which have resulted from fraudulent activities.

John is managing partner and advocate in Carey Olsen”s litigation and dispute resolution group in Guernsey.

John undertakes the complete range of major litigation and advocacy work including asset tracing, multi-jurisdictional disputes and commercial and trust litigation. John has been Counsel in many of the major litigation cases before the Royal Court of Guernsey and the Guernsey Court of Appeal and is one of the few Guernsey advocates to have appeared as counsel in the Privy Council. He has been lead counsel in ground-breaking trust litigation cases in the past 12 months.

John was a founder member of the Guernsey Royal Court Working Party which completely reviewed the island”s Civil Procedure in 2008 and is a member of the UK Fraud Advisory Panel. He is a founder (and only Guernsey) member of Fraudnet. He is also a member of the Association of Contentious Trust and Probate Specialists and is a Notary Public. John was the first elected Head of the Guernsey Bar in November 2008 and was re-elected to the role in 2010. In 2014 John was awarded ACTAPS Offshore Contentious Lawyer of the Year Award. In 2015 he was awarded the “most highly regarded” classification for Asset Recovery by Who”s Who Legal – one of only five offshore lawyers in the world to be awarded such accreditation. Carey Olsen has been awarded Asset Recovery Law Firm of the Year in Guernsey for the past 2 years by Who”s Who Legal.

Alejandro Catalá Guerrero is one of Mexico´s foremost lawyers and has solid experience in white collar crime. He has Postgraduate Studies from Universidad Panamericana, one of Mexico´s top law schools and has specialized in Mexican Criminal Law. He also has a degree from the Universidad Nuevo Mundo.

He has advised several large international corporations regarding white collar crime and has written several articles regarding the matter.

He is well know on an international and national level and has been an active participant in international organizations such as World Services Group and Lex Mundi. In 2010 he joined Fraudnet and has been offering consulting and giving advice to other members that need an understanding of the Mexican market.

He speaks Spanish and English.

Basham, Ringe y Correa S.C. specialties:
Administrative, Privatizations & Biddings, Aeronautic/Aerospacial, Antitrust, Civil & Commercial Litigation, Consumer Protection, Corporate, Contracts & Foreign Investments, Criminal Litigation, Energy, Environmental, Franchising, Health, Immigration, Intellectual Property, International Trade & Customs, Labor, Land Transportation, Maritime, Mergers & Acquisitions, Mining, Real State, Social Security, Tax, Telecommunications and Trusts.

Alfredo Taullard jointly Co-heads the Dispute Resolution Department at Hughes & Hughes. He has vast hands-on practice in complex civil and commercial Litigation, International Commercial Arbitration, and is a specialist in procedural, commercial and mining law.

Alfredo has been recognised as leading lawyer in Uruguay for Dispute Resolution by the most relevant guides in the legal profession, Who’s Who Legal – Asset Recovery, The Legal 500 Latin America, and Chambers & Partners Latin America. He is also the Australian Honorary Consul in Uruguay for the Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade.

Alfredo holds a Doctorate in Law and Social Sciences from the Universidad de la República School of Law. He has authored several publications on Procedural Law, Transnational Litigation, Civil Proceedings, as well as several papers for National and International Congresses on his areas of expertise.

Hughes & Hughes

Founded in the 19th century, Hughes & Hughes is one of the oldest and most prestigious law firms in Uruguay. The firm has had considerable growth during recent years and has successfully encompassed the long-term expertise with a modern, sophisticated and practical approach of the business.

They have extensive experience assisting clients in bankruptcy proceedings, including financial institutions and brokers, and have developed an organised structure prepared to efficiently deal with complex asset recoveries, including those generated by business crime. They have strongly developed strategies for an effective search of assets to enable important recoveries. Their proven experience has led to an increase in demand for this service by leading companies from all over the world.