Pamela has been practicing law for more than 25 years, and specializes in tax, commercial, and bankruptcy law, as well as complex litigation. Since her expertise ranges across a wide remit, she can provide a holistic approach on matters.

Pamela started her career at the Chilean Bankruptcy Superintendence, moving onto to PwC, one of the biggest consulting, tax and accounting firms internationally. She later went on to represent creditors and debtors involved in complex reorganization and liquidation, money laundering, torts and collection proceedings.

Pamela was the Chilean legal advisor and link between courts, the creditor’s comity, the debtor and the superintendence in regard to the first cross border case in Chilean history, which recognized the rights of Chilean liquidators to recover assets in different jurisdictions (case: Onix-A.Chang).

Pamela is based in Santiago de Chile, where she founded Lathrop Blanco Goldbaum Abogados. She also founded Goldbaum Advisors LLC in Florida, USA, and leads multidisciplinary teams composed of lawyers, accountants, auditors, forensics, finance experts, among others as necessary for the best outcome.

Pamela is known for her incisive analysis, strategic planning, and being determined and driven in all her cases. She has a commercial and practical approach and can explain complex situations using simple terms. She has been a professor of tax law and economy at the law school of Universidad Catolica de La Santisima Concepcion, Chile, has lectured on insolvency and asset recovery in Latin America, United States and the European Union; and is the Co-Chair and founding member of the Latin America Chapter of IWIRC (International Women’s Insolvency and Restructuring Confederation).

Ms. Plochocki is an experienced advocate who focuses her practice on complex transnational disputes, both at the trial and appellate levels. Her matters have included high-profile, multi-jurisdictional financial frauds and insolvencies, in which she has represented investors, individual executives, and corporations. Ms. Plochocki has a proven track record in international judgment enforcement and asset recovery. She has prevailed in contested applications for evidence for use in foreign proceedings pursuant to 28 U.S.C. § 1782 and won recognition of disputed international arbitral awards and regularly speaks on US asset recovery tools and strategies.

Ms. Plochocki also has expertise in the extraterritorial application of U.S. law and jurisdiction and regularly counsels and represents international clients on civil and criminal liability in US courts. She has successfully defended clients from allegations of material support for terrorism and achieved favorable resolutions for clients facing exposure to liability for business and financial activities conducted abroad. In recognition of her excellence in the field of International Law, Ms. Plochocki was selected as a Washington DC “Rising Star” by Super Lawyers in 2017 and 2018.

Ms. Plochocki graduated with honors from the University of Michigan Law School and Barnard College of Columbia University. She is admitted to practice in the state and federal courts of Washington D.C., New York, and California.

William is a litigation partner at New Zealand’s largest litigation firm, Meredith Connell. He specialises in cases involving suspected corporate fraud, investment disputes, professional negligence, and other white-collar matters.

He has made hundreds of appearances at every level of the New Zealand courts, for public- and private-sector clients. He conducts jury trials on behalf of the New Zealand state.

In 2015, William graduated Master of Laws from the University of Cambridge, with first-class honours and a Leonard Coling scholarship.

Between 2015 and 2019, he worked as an attorney in the London office of an American law firm, in one of the world’s top white-collar-crime practices.

In 2017, he was admitted to the English Bar and is a member of Middle Temple. In 2023, he was admitted to the Bar of the Pitcairn Islands.

William is a former editor-in-chief of the Auckland University Law Review. He is the current author of the New Zealand chapter in J. Seddon et al (eds), The Practitioner’s Guide to Global Investigations (GIR, Sixth ed. 2022). His published articles have appeared in the Oxford University Commonwealth Law Journal (UK), the New Zealand Business Law Quarterly, the New Zealand Law Journal, the Supreme Court Law Review (Canada), the Journal of Civil Litigation and Practice (Aus) and the Journal of Banking and Finance Law and Practice (Aus).

Examples of past cases are:

Counsel for one of New Zealand’s largest construction companies in investigating and freezing the assets of past employees and contractors suspected of a long-running, multi-million-dollar invoicing fraud (see e.g. THL (2005) v JDR Ltd [2022] NZHC 3627).

Advisor and counsel for the New Zealand subsidiaries of a large multinational company through a major internal investigation and subsequent high-profile litigation against its former directors and auditor in one of the largest alleged revenue frauds in New Zealand history (see e.g. Fujifilm Business Innovation New Zealand Limited v Whittaker [2021] NZHC 3292).

Overseeing the successful application to the English High Court to release two high-net-worth individuals from a world-wide-freezing order because of non-disclosure, with indemnity costs obtained (see Banca Turco Romana SA v Cortuk [2018] EWHC 662 (Comm) (28 March 2018)).

Advising a state government on a multi-jurisdiction investigation of historic fraud and corruption involving alleged losses of over US$1 billion, including regulatory and asset-recovery advice and engagement with US and Swiss law-enforcement agencies.

Representing a high-frequency trading firm facing charges of market manipulation in China following the 2015 Chinese futures crash, in a high-profile and politically significant case.

Advising and representing an international financial institution in litigation involving allegations of suspected money-laundering by its customers.

Pernille is one of Denmark’s most experienced insolvency attorneys, and she has assisted in a number of financial restructurings and in the insolvency proceedings against a wide range of large Danish companies including Sterling Airways A/S, Sterling Airlines A/S, Centerplan A/S, Sandgården A/S, O. W. Bunker A/S, Fona A/S, Arnold Busck A/S and ACT Global A/S.

Pernille is widely recognised by the large international rating agencies as leading in Denmark in Insolvency and Restructuring. Her extensive experience and expertise means that she is often asked to handle the most complex cases in Denmark; for instance as trustee of the estate in bankruptcy of O.W. Bunker, which is the largest bankruptcy in Denmark in recent times.

Since 1988, Pernille has been entitled to appear before the Danish Supreme Court and she has conducted several significant cases in relation to bankrupt and insolvent businesses.

As the then chairman of the Danish Association of Trustees (in Danish: Kuratorforeningen) Pernille participated in the establishment of the Association of Danish Insolvency Lawyers in 2004, and she was chairman until 2018. For a number of years, Pernille also chaired the Danish Bar and Law Society’s Insolvency Law Committee and the Association of Danish Law Firms’ Insolvency Law Committee. Pernille is also a member of The Danish Debt Collection Agency’s select group of attorneys whom the Agency may appoint as trustees.

Dr. Aimee Prieto is a Certified Fraud Examiner (CFE) and an attorney from the Dominican Republic with 20 years of practice. She is the founding partner of Prieto Cabrera & Asociados established in 2008, a law firm specializing in asset recovery and investigations, real estate transactions, and litigation. Aimee has worked on multiple asset recovery cases involving valuable assets. Among these cases are complex asset cases of the United States Government, including the first successful asset civil forfeiture between the United States of America and the Dominican Republic related to a multi-million dollar healthcare fraud forfeiture committed in the U.S. with the ill-gotten proceeds invested in the Dominican Republic. Aimee is the Co-Chair of the Latin American Network for IWIRC (International Women”s Insolvency and Restructuring Confederation), the premier global organization for women in the restructuring and insolvency professions.

John has practiced in the regulatory, commercial litigation and antitrust fields locally and across the African region for over 20 years. He has been recognized as a leader in his field for many of these. Recently, John represented Business at the OECD as the first regional representative. John has acted in many of the leading antitrust, commercial litigation and regulatory matters in South Africa and the region. He has been a partner in a major South African firm, co-founder of a South African practice and the founder of a Pan-African legal group.

Significant Matters:

• Successfully advised Monsanto & Company in relation to the USD 66 billion acquisition by Bayer ATKG before the South African agencies.

• Represented Allergan Plc in the much-publicised proposed acquisition of Allergan by Pfizer Incorporated.

• Advised Comcast in relation to regional antitrust issues during its bid for 20th Century Fox.

• Successfully advised both Samsung Electronics Company Limited and Harman International Industries Incorporated in obtaining unconditional clearance of the large merger before the South African competition authorities.

• Successfully advised Merck & Co. and Sanofi-Aventis SA in relation to their much publicised animal health joint venture.

• Advised Verizon Business in relation to the disposal of its South African business to MTN Limited.

• Advised Anglo American in relation to the sale of Anglo’s zinc assets to Vedanta Plc.

• Successfully represented Eli Lily Animal Health Elanco in relation to the acquisition of Novartis Animal Health before the South African competition authorities.

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