David M. Mizrachi

David M. Mizrachi is the senior partner of MDU Legal in the Republic of Panama. He is a United States trained attorney (BA with Departmental Honors, University of Pennsylvania; JD cum laude, Tulane Law School), who is admitted to practice law in Panama and the State of Florida (State and Federal Courts).

A substantial part of David’s international practice is devoted to asset tracing and recovery. He assisted a foreign court appointed receiver in recovering Panama based assets procured through a Ponzi scheme and has served notice of proceedings and procured evidence on behalf of foreign government agencies in cases related to investment and securities fraud. David’s legal actions allowed a foreign investor to recover monies paid into a Panama based boiler room securities operation. He also facilitated the recovery of a Panama registered vessel given as a guarantee to a failed Caribbean bank. His firm has recently obtained several ex parte asset freeze orders from Panamanian courts and recently obtained an ex parte court order which required a Panamanian Corporation to disclose its beneficial owners. His firm also obtained an ex parte suspension order which halted direct and indirect trading of the stock of a company and the exercise of any voting rights related to its shares pending an action to determine the ownership of part of that company’s shares. Recently his firm obtained an ex parte judicial order suspending the effects of the registration of the minutes of a corporation which had purportedly changed its board of directors without shareholder consent. He routinely assists foreign firms and governmental agencies with their legal needs in Panama and coordinates multinational litigation efforts on behalf of his local clients.

Mr. Mizrachi has served in court or as a private expert on Panamanian law in cases pending in New York, Florida, Indiana, Washington State, Bermuda, Israel and the United Kingdom. He has recently spoken on asset tracing and recovery matters in London, Geneva, Washington, Costa Rica, Miami and Fort Lauderdale. His firm is the Panamanian member of International Law Firms, ICC FraudNet and Trace International. David is the author of the Panama Section of the FraudNet Compendium on Asset Tracing and Recovery (Eric Schmidt Verlag, 2010). He is a certified translator (Spanish/English/Spanish). He enjoys reading about enology, history and biblical archaeology.

Danny Ong

Danny is the Managing Director of Setia Law LLC, a specialist high-stakes dispute resolution and crisis management team in Singapore. Danny specialises in a broad range of corporate and commercial dispute work, with particular emphasis on complex cross-border fraud and asset recovery, contentious insolvency, banking and securities, corporate and commercial (including shareholder) disputes. He has been recognized in his areas of expertise by The Legal 500 (Asia-Pacific) Series, The International Who’s Who Legal, The International Financial Law Review 1000, and Asialaw Profiles, The Guide to Asia-Pacific’s Leading Law Firms.

In the area of fraud and asset recovery, Danny has advised and represented various stated-owned companies, governmental agencies, and international financial institutions, in the investigation and prosecution of claims involving complex multi-jurisdictional corporate and commercial fraud, bribery, corruption, breaches of fiduciary duties, enforcement of foreign judgments, and the recovery and tracing of assets globally. With his in-depth ‘on-the-ground’ knowledge and deep experience in this specialist area and also in Asia, Danny has been at the forefront of some of the largest cross-border fraud and asset recovery cases seen in the region.

Jason Teo

Jason is an Associate Director at Setia Law LLC, a specialist high-stakes dispute resolution and crisis management team in Singapore. He is active in corporate and commercial disputes, with particular emphasis on cross-border fraud and asset recovery litigation.

Jason and his team at Setia Law LLC frequently act in relation to freezing injunctions and pre-action disclosure orders before the Singapore Courts, and have represented litigants in leading cases in Singapore involving cryptocurrency, high-frequency algorithmic trading, payments processing, and collective action. Notably, Jason acted for the successful claimant in B2C2 Ltd v Quoine Pte Ltd, a landmark Singapore judgment involving cryptocurrency trades executed autonomously by algorithmic trading software.

Jason has experience in a wide range of corporate and commercial disputes, including shareholder and contract disputes, and disputes in the banking, oil & gas, technology, property and construction industries. He has also advised clients in cross-border liquidations involving recovery in high-risk jurisdictions.

Siegbert Lampert 360x360

Siegbert Lampert

Lampert & Partner serves a broad range of national and international, public and private, corporate and also individual clients. Lampert & Partner represented in the past and acts now also on behalf of different national governments. Besides major civil and criminal proceedings, several high-profile cases of grand fraud and corruption are handled by the firm.

Founding partner Siegbert Lampert is the author of important publications in the fields of asset tracing, fraud and corruption, like e.g. FraudNet’s World Compendium on “Asset Tracing and Recovery”, Sweet & Maxwell’s “International Commercial Fraud” or the Getting the Deal Through publication on “Anti-Corruption Regulation”.

Lampert & Partner is in Liechtenstein terms a medium sized firm. Founder partner Siegbert Lampert, a Constitutional Court judge from 2005 until 2014, established the firm in 1996.

Lampert & Partner are active members in several important professional networks and organisations, like for example the IBA, STEP (Society of Trust and Estate Practitioners), EUROJURIS International, WORLD-LINK for Law and INSOL International.

Major fields of activity: Civil and commercial Litigation, White Collar Crime, MLAT Proceedings, International Judicial Assistance, Banking and Financial Services, Insurances, Trusts and Estate Planning.

Colette Wilkins

Walkers has one of the largest commercial litigation and dispute resolution teams in the Cayman Islands. Colette and her colleagues can provide timely and expert assistance in connection with all aspects of civil litigation and insolvency and have considerable experience in connection with asset tracing, enforcement proceedings, commercial and corporate disputes and contentious banking and financial issues. Colette has been a partner at Walkers in the Cayman Islands since 2009. She practised as a barrister from chancery/commercial chambers in London for fifteen years before being admitted as an attorney in the Cayman Islands in 2005. Colette has extensive experience in high value and cross border commercial litigation, with a particular emphasis on disputes arising in connection with fraud, asset recovery, corporate governance, distressed investment vehicles and liquidations. Since 2009 Colette has been commended in the leading legal directories including Who”s Who Legal, Chambers Global and Legal 500. The strength of the Walkers asset recovery team is commended in the 2013 International Who”s Who of Asset Recovery Lawyers which noted that Colette “stands out as one of the most highly regarded individuals in the research. Recommended for her “pragmatic and solutions-oriented” approach, she earns “high praise” from her peers and clients”.

Established in 1964, Walkers is a leading International Financial Centre law firm, with a focus on corporate and international finance law. From our global network of eight offices, the firm offers a full range of legal services and delivers practical advice based on an in-depth knowledge of the legal, regulatory and commercial environment in the British Virgin Islands, Cayman Islands, Ireland and Jersey. Walkers has 54 partners and 365 staff worldwide.

Specialities: Commercial Litigation and Dispute Resolution, Compliance, Corporate, Crime, Employment, Finance (Asset Finance, Banking, Insurance Linked Securities, Regulatory, Restructuring and Structured Products and capital Markets), Insolvency and Corporate Recovery, Insurance, Investment Funds, Islamic Finance, Private Equity, Property , Taxation and Trusts.

Mahmood Azam Awan

Mahmood Awan is an Advocate of the Supreme Court of Pakistan and a leading asset recovery lawyer based in Islamabad, Pakistan.

Mahmood founded a boutique law firm specializing exclusively in civil fraud and private international law after receiving his LL.M in Banking and Finance at King”s College London in 2001. He has co-founded four law firms focusing primarily on white collar crimes, asset recovery and cybercrimes in Pakistan. He is currently the senior partner at Mahmood Awan & Partners in Islamabad and Awan Seerat Tirmizi in Lahore and Karachi, Pakistan.

Mahmood has extensive experience in enforcement of foreign judgments and has acted as primary Counsel for the liquidators of Bank of Credit and Commerce International in multi-jurisdictional legal proceedings to recover misappropriated funds. He has advised Stock Exchanges or investors on several cases of fraud by brokerage firms since 2001. He has advised the country’s largest E&P company among other clients including Pakistan LNG Terminals Limited.

Mahmood has been advising energy sector clients since 2002 and has represented Oil and Gas Development Company Limited as its primary Counsel in several highly complex litigated matters before all five High Courts in Pakistan. He acts as an arbitrator and has also advised and represented clients on matters before regulatory authorities.

Leading teams of lawyers in Islamabad, Lahore and Karachi, Mahmood is recognized for his expertise in design and delivery of efficient solutions to complex litigation in a jurisdiction popularly perceived as highly unpredictable in matters of scheduling trials and other proceedings.

Mahmood has appeared as an expert witness before Senate Standing Committee on Finance, advised the Board of Islamabad Stock Exchange, been a Securities and Exchange Commission of Pakistan nominee on the Governing Board of the then Lahore Stock Exchange and has worked extensively on prevention of fraud in capital market operations since 1995.