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.

After returning to Morocco in 2005, Mehdi joined the family business and founded DLF Avocats, a boutique law firm specialized in international transactions (M&A, project financing, dispute resolution) with a focus on mining and energy, including renewables.

The DLF team is composed of 20 multilingual skilled lawyers, paralegals and support members whose main concern is flexibility and attention to the client’s need.

Mehdi has also held positions in several institutions, as a board member of the Belgian and Luxemburg Chamber of Commerce (CCBLM) from 2012 to 2022 as well as Vice President of the German Chamber of Commerce from 2013 to 2019 and is still a board member of the same chamber.

Mehdi is very active in the international and cross-border transactions with a strong presence in the Middle East and Africa. Thanks to this input, DLF is the privileged partner acting as local and regional counsel for several foreign law firms.

Bruce Horowitz is a founding partner of PAZ HOROWITZ, former Managing Partner of the Firm and its former IP Section Director. He now concentrates on Anti-corruption, Anti-extortion and Compliance. PAZ HOROWITZ is a full-service firm for international and national corporate clients, providing internationally recognized services in Anti-corruption, Anti-Money-Laundering, Compliance, Corporate, M&A, Intellectual Property, Dispute Resolution, Employment Law, Public Contracts, Natural Resources, and Taxation. From the Firm’s first day in 1991, Bruce has provided FCPA and Anti-corruption advice to International and National clients.

Since 1990, Bruce has been helping client companies and individuals to understand the bribery, extortion and coercion situations that they are likely to face, and to navigate those situations successfully, ethically and safely. He, also, teaches and trains individuals from all sectors of society on these issues.

Bruce is the President of the International Chamber of Commerce’s Ecuador Commission on Integrity and Anti-corruption; an Invited Instructor at the International Anti-corruption Academy in Laxenburg, Austria, Arbitration Judge for the American and Quito Chambers of Commerce Arbitration Centers; Co-founder and President of the Center for the Study of Bribery, Extortion and Coercion Situations (CESSEC); The American Bar Association’s (ABA) Representative to Ecuador; Founder of the ABA Quito Chapter; and former Chair of the ABA Anti-corruption Committee. Bruce is the TRACE International Law Firms’ Partner for Ecuador; and is the only professional in Ecuador recommended for Anti-Corruption and Compliance work by the Latin American Corporate Counsel Association (LACCA).

Yves Klein is a founding partner of Monfrini Bitton Klein, a conflict-free litigation boutique based in Geneva, successor of the firm founded in 1978 by Enrico Monfrini. The firm focuses on asset recovery, business crime defense, anti-corruption investigations and offshore litigation.

He develops strategies for searching and recovering assets internationally, and coordinates cross-border proceedings. He represents his clients, be they states, liquidators of foreign insolvencies, corporations or individuals, before civil, criminal and bankruptcy courts, to recover the proceeds of crimes and to obtain damages from perpetrators and facilitators.

Together with his partner Enrico Monfrini, Yves Klein has conducted the groundbreaking corruption recovery proceedings in the Nigeria vs. Abacha case, where more than US$ 2 billion has been recovered in ten jurisdictions since 1999. For the past 20 years, he also has been retained as Swiss counsel in several other corruption recovery cases, notably Brazil v Dos Santos Netto, Haiti v Duvalier, Tunisia v Ben Ali and Guinea v Steinmetz.

He also represents liquidators of foreign insolvencies, especially banks and publicly traded companies, and has recovered tens of millions of dollars for their depositors, investors and creditors, prominently in the context of Ponzi schemes. Notable among these types of clients, he represents the bank insolvencies in Switzerland of Stanford International Bank Ltd (Antigua), Banco Santos SA (Brazil) and Banco Turco Romana SA (Romania).

Yves Klein also applies his asset recovery skills in the enforcement of foreign judgments and arbitration awards. He has obtained the recognition of such foreign decisions for amounts in excess of US$ 100 million and has successfully recovered the assets that defendants concealed in Switzerland or abroad.

He has been recognized by Who’s Who Legal as one of the world’s “most highly regarded individuals” in asset recovery since 2013 and is ranked by Chambers Europe.

As Chair of the International Bar Association’s Asset Recovery Subcommittee (Anti-Corruption Committee), Yves Klein has established relationships with the World Bank, the OECD’s Working Group on Bribery, and anti-corruption law enforcement officials to develop best practices for the coordination of the use of civil asset recovery proceedings with criminal proceedings.

He has published about tracing and recovery of assets, particularly in cases of corruption, since 1996 and regularly speaks at international conferences on these matters.