FIRE Americas: Cayman

In-Person on the 5th - 7th June 2024

The Westin, Grand Cayman 

Bringing together experts from across North America, South America and the Caribbean 

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Meet your North and South American and International speakers:

Casey Michel
Head of Combating Kleptocracy Program Human Rights Foundation & Author of
American Kleptocracy: How the U.S. Created the World’s Greatest Money Laundering Scheme in History

I'm currently the head of the Combating Kleptocracy Program at the Human Rights Foundation, as well as a writer, analyst, and investigative journalist working on topics ranging from kleptocracy, illicit finance, dark money, foreign lobbying, and foreign interference to the legacies of Russian and Soviet colonialism.

My first book—AMERICAN KLEPTOCRACY: How the U.S. Created the World’s Greatest Money Laundering Scheme in History, out now from St. Martin’s Press—centers on America’s transformation into the world’s greatest offshore haven, and what that means for the rest of us. AMERICAN KLEPTOCRACY is one of the “best books to read to understand financial crime” (The Economist), “masterful” (Financial Times), “brilliantly clear” (The Atlantic), a “compact grenade of a book” (The Australian), and “make[s] the case that the world’s leading tax haven is America” (New York Review of Books).


Casey Michel
Casey Michel Head of Combating Kleptocracy Program Human Rights Foundation & Author of
American Kleptocracy: How the U.S. Created the World’s Greatest Money Laundering Scheme in History
Melanie Cyganowski
Partner
Otterbourg (USA)

As a recognized leader in the bankruptcy/restructuring bar for more than 30 years, I have combined my commitment to excellence in legal practice, sound management principles as a practice group leader, and scholarly-based opinions as the underpinning for decision-making as a judge and counselor.

COUNSELOR-LEGAL/BUSINESS AFFAIRS

My legal practice emphasizes advice to distressed companies and governments in every aspect of restructuring inside the bankruptcy process and outside in the ongoing affairs of troubled companies making their way toward recovery. Additionally, courts and clients look to me for services as an arbitrator or mediator in a variety of bankruptcy disputes, as well as for expert services.
In addition, one of the benefits of relationship-building in the private and government sectors of the bankruptcy world is the ability to qualify and act as CEO for distressed companies, which is a part of my unique fiduciary practice.

JUDICIAL AFFAIRS/PUBLIC SERVICE

Building on initial law firm training at Sullivan & Cromwell, and increasing responsibility as a senior attorney at Milbank Tweed, I looked to public service as my next step, accepting a U.S. Bankruptcy Court judgeship in the Eastern District of New York.

During the last years of my term, I served as Chief Judge, with the added traditional administrative responsibilities that include representing the Court, oversight of dockets and offices of the Clerk, and in our district, oversight of construction of new courthouses.

CONSENSUS BUILDER

One of the chief common denominators in building my career has been to gain consensus using logic, and common sense in tandem with growing expertise and continuous, scholarly engagement.

As the chair of a key practice group, I am responsible for mobilizing formidable teams across multiple practice disciplines. I organize and integrate the necessary personnel and ideas and work with a multitude of practitioners internally and externally in the restructuring process. This approach allows me to build significant and highly productive client relationships.


Melanie Cyganowski
Melanie Cyganowski Partner
Otterbourg (USA)
Bradley Sharp
President & CEO
Development Specialists, Inc (USA)

Bradley Sharp is the President & CEO of Development Specialists, Inc. (“DSI”), a leading provider of management consulting and financial advisory services to companies in need of restructuring or turnaround management. As one of the first turnaround firms in the United States, DSI has expanded from its headquarters in Chicago to include a significant national footprint with offices in New York, Los Angeles, San Francisco, South Florida, Madison and Columbus, Ohio. 

Mr. Sharp has almost 30 years’ experience providing crisis management and third-party fiduciary services in numerous industries including finance, real estate development, high tech, manufacturing, food and agriculture.  He has served as a Federal Equity Receiver, Chief Restructuring Officer and Trustee under Chapter 11 and Chapter 7 of the U.S. Bankruptcy Code.  Mr. Sharp is also one of the Joint Official Liquidators in an official liquidation under the supervision of the Grand Court of the Cayman Islands. Mr. Sharp has significant experience with investor frauds and companies facing criminal issues.  Mr. Sharp is an expert witness with respect to fiduciary duties, banking, finance and securitizations.

Mr. Sharp is a Fellow of the American College of Bankruptcy, a member of the International Insolvency Institute (III), a full member of the National Association of Federal Equity Receivers (NAFER) and is a board member of the American Bankruptcy Institute (ABI).


Bradley Sharp
Bradley Sharp President & CEO
Development Specialists, Inc (USA)
Stephen Leontsinis
Managing Partner
Collas Crill (Cayman)

Stephen is Managing Partner and head of the Dispute Resolution department in the Cayman Islands. He has a demonstrated history of advocacy in the practice of corporate and commercial litigation, with an emphasis on offshore insolvency and restructuring of companies.

Stephen's practice has a strong focus on company law including corporate insolvency; schemes of arrangements; capital reductions; shareholder disputes; director's liability; international asset tracing; the enforcement of foreign judgments; worldwide Mareva injunctions, Anton Piller orders, and Norwich Pharmacal orders. Stephen has significant contentious litigation experience arising from the representation of both liquidators, shareholders and creditors of companies and hedge funds including the claw back of fraudulent conveyances and undue preferences, allegations of investment fraud and investment manager disputes.

Since his appointment as Head of Dispute Resolution, Stephen has grown the team from two to eight lawyers, all with a strong background in insolvency and restructuring matters. Prior to joining the firm Stephen spent two and a half years in Miami as a member of a boutique litigation firm in the United States which focused on cross border insolvency and trust disputes.

Stephen was called as an advocate of the High Court of South Africa in 2003 and has subsequently qualified as a solicitor-advocate of the High Court of England and Wales and a solicitor-advocate of the Supreme Court of the Eastern Caribbean. Stephen was called to the Cayman Islands Bar in January 2009. Stephen is ranked in Chambers and Partners and Legal 500.


Stephen Leontsinis
Stephen Leontsinis Managing Partner
Collas Crill (Cayman)
Marlyn Narkis
Partner
MDU Legal (Panama)

Marlyn Narkis
Marlyn Narkis Partner
MDU Legal (Panama)
Duane Loft
Partner
Pallas Partners (USA) LLP

Duane Loft leads Pallas’s New York practice. He represents clients in complex commercial litigation, with a particular focus on restructuring disputes, contested issues in bankruptcy, and cross-border litigation. An experienced trial lawyer, Duane is regularly called upon to provide courtroom leadership for creditors, institutional shareholders, and fund principals in cases where litigation drives recoveries. Duane is ranked in Chambers USA for Bankruptcy/Restructuring and is listed in Lawdragon 500 Leading Global Litigators Guide.  Both the New York Law Journal and Law360 have named him a “Rising Star,” and his cases are featured regularly in Reorg Research, Bloomberg, and the Wall Street Journal.

In the area of restructuring litigation, Duane has represented ad hoc groups of creditors in a number of significant corporate bankruptcies, including the Chapter 11 cases of Intelsat S.A. and LBI Media, in each case serving as trial counsel in multi-week hearings on contested plans of reorganization. Duane’s recent matters include representing the 2034 Noteholders of Bombardier Inc. in litigation to collect a make-whole payment arising from a covenant breach and to invalidate a vote-rigging liability management exercise; defending fraudulent transfer claims in Chapter 15 adversary proceedings brought by the trustee of Norske Skogindustrier, an insolvent Norwegian paper company, relating to a 2016 restructuring; and representing an Ad Hoc Group of Hertz creditors to recover backstop fee owed in connection with restructuring of Hertz’s European businesses.

In cross-border disputes, Duane has helped recover billions of dollars for institutional shareholders, including through Section 1782 discovery proceedings that have led to precedent-setting decisions in district and appellate courts throughout the United States.


Duane Loft
Duane Loft Partner
Pallas Partners (USA) LLP
Leyza Florin Blanco
Shareholder
Sequor Law (USA)

Leyza Florin Blanco
Leyza Florin Blanco Shareholder
Sequor Law (USA)
Marcelo Sacramone
Founding Partner
Sacramone, Orleans e Bragança Advogados (Brazil)

Marcelo Sacramone
Marcelo Sacramone Founding Partner
Sacramone, Orleans e Bragança Advogados (Brazil)
Addy R. Schmitt
Managing Partner, Washington, DC Office
Harris St. Laurent & Wechsler (USA)

Addy R. Schmitt
Addy R. Schmitt Managing Partner, Washington, DC Office
Harris St. Laurent & Wechsler (USA)
Henrique Forssell
Founding partner
Duarte Forssell Advogados (Brazil)

Henrique Forssell is one of the founding partners of DFA, with extensive experience advising judicial administrators, foreign liquidators and financial institutions in the identification of bankruptcy and bank fraud of national repercussion. In the past ten years, he has been appointed by several judicial authorities to lead and coordinate some of the most important international asset recovery processes in Brazil. Since 2011, he has been a member of FraudNet, an organization established by the International Chamber of Commerce (International Chamber of Commerce), which selects highly qualified lawyers experienced in asset recovery in each country. He was appointed as a reference lawyer in Brazil in the area of ​​recovery of fraudulent assets by the English magazine Who's Who Legal.


 Henrique Forssell
Henrique Forssell Founding partner
Duarte Forssell Advogados (Brazil)
Annalisa Shibli
Counsel
Collas Crill (Cayman)

Overview

Annalisa is a Senior Associate in the Dispute Resolution team in Cayman. She has a broad practice covering commercial litigation, cross-border insolvency and restructuring. Her experience includes work on high value fraud and asset tracing claims, the enforcement of foreign arbitral awards and shareholder disputes. She regularly advises limited partners, shareholders, directors and fund managers on insolvency related matters.

Experience

Annalisa was admitted as an attorney in the Cayman Islands in 2014, following which she practiced as an associate at Walkers both in the Cayman Islands and Hong Kong.

Background

Annalisa obtained an LLB with Honours from Durham University and went on to complete the LPC at the University of Law in Manchester, before returning to the Cayman Islands to train as an Articled Clerk with Walkers.

Memberships

INSOL International Cayman Islands Legal Practitioners' Association

International Women's Insolvency & Restructuring Confederation (IWIRC)

Annalisa is also a Cayman Islands Notary Public

Overview

Annalisa is a Senior Associate in the Dispute Resolution team in Cayman. She has a broad practice covering commercial litigation, cross-border insolvency and restructuring. Her experience includes work on high value fraud and asset tracing claims, the enforcement of foreign arbitral awards and shareholder disputes. She regularly advises limited partners, shareholders, directors and fund managers on insolvency related matters.

Experience

Annalisa was admitted as an attorney in the Cayman Islands in 2014, following which she practiced as an associate at Walkers both in the Cayman Islands and Hong Kong.

Background

Annalisa obtained an LLB with Honours from Durham University and went on to complete the LPC at the University of Law in Manchester, before returning to the Cayman Islands to train as an Articled Clerk with Walkers.

Memberships

INSOL International Cayman Islands Legal Practitioners' Association

International Women's Insolvency & Restructuring Confederation (IWIRC)

Annalisa is also a Cayman Islands Notary Public


Annalisa Shibli
Annalisa Shibli Counsel
Collas Crill (Cayman)
Miguel E. Urriola
Partner
Fabrega Molino (Panama)

Miguel has impressive experience handling complex strategic and reorganizational issues, trade union rights, consultation on redundancies and business transfers, industrial action, balloting, and collective labor law. Since 2005, he has participated as arbitrator in several arbitration proceedings at the Conciliation and Arbitration Centre of Panama.

Miguel has conducted complex and high-profile employment tribunal claims and employment litigation.  He is a distinguished negotiator of collective labor agreements in Panama.

Before FABREGA MOLINO, he was a partner of a prestigious law firm in Panama for sixteen years, representing local and international clients including multinational companies, family groups amongst others, in commercial, intellectual property, labor, and consumer protection disputes, both in Civil Courts as well as in Commercial Courts. He has been distinguished by prestigious international publications and directories such as Chambers Global, Chambers Latin America, and Who’s Who Legal in the area of dispute resolution and asset recovery.


Miguel E. Urriola
Miguel E. Urriola Partner
Fabrega Molino (Panama)
Lori Marks-Esterman
Partner
Olshan (USA)

Litigation Practice Group Leader Lori Marks-Esterman is an experienced commercial litigator representing private and public companies in complex corporate disputes.

Lori is the Chair of Olshan’s Litigation Practice Group, and is a seasoned trial attorney with nearly 25 years of experience in litigating complex, commercial disputes.  Lori represents a wide-range of clients, including hedge funds and private equity companies, shareholder activists, real estate developers, and other private and publicly held companies.  She has significant experience in a broad array of corporate litigation matters, with an emphasis on shareholder and investor disputes, merger and acquisitions litigation, director and officer liability, and actions involving breaches of major and complex contracts. 

Lori also has significant real estate litigation expertise, and was quoted extensively in The Real Deal’s article entitled “The Judges Who Rule over Real Estate.”  She also has significant experience representing clients in business-tort cases and employment-related claims, including restrictive covenants, tortious interference with business, and unfair competition.

Lori routinely provides litigation guidance and counsel relating to the firm’s activist practice.  She has successfully handled multiple matters for shareholder activist clients enforcing investor rights, compelling inspections of books and records and contesting company actions in influential jurisdictions including Delaware Chancery Court and New York courts.  And, Lori was recently lead trial counsel for three highly sophisticated corporate matters that went to trial in the Court of Chancery of the State of Delaware. 


Lori Marks-Esterman
Lori Marks-Esterman Partner
Olshan (USA)
Zachary Bluestone
Lawyer
Bluestone, P.C. (USA)

Zack Bluestone is a Principal in the Washington, DC/New York offices of Bluestone, P.C., where he focuses his practice on the enforcement of judgments and arbitration awards, as well as related cross-border recovery and commercial disputes. Recent matters have concerned investment fraud, 1782 applications, insurance fraud in telecom, cryptocurrency exchange hacks, economic torts against governmental bad actors, and enforcement actions against sovereigns.

 

Zack regularly represents governmental agencies and insurers, investors, litigation funders, digital asset issuers, corporates, and others involved in global finance and trade. Clients call on Zack to litigate complicated issues through trial, master difficult facts, and pursue all available avenues to obtain a recovery, often involving sensitive contractual and business issues. These disputes typically encompass multiple jurisdictions and several potential parties and claims, presenting often complex enforcement questions.


Zachary Bluestone
Zachary Bluestone Lawyer
Bluestone, P.C. (USA)
Brigeeta Richdale
Vice Chair, White Collar Defense & Investigations
Cozen O'Connor (Canada)

Brigeeta is the vice chair of the White Collar Defense & Investigations practice group, a leader of the luxury brand protection team, and represents some of the world’s most famous trademarks and IP owners. Brigeeta’s clients seek her counsel and advice in all aspects of securities regulatory proceedings, intellectual property enforcement, and related litigation. She focuses on counterfeit and online IP infringements, matters involving allegations of fraud, insider trading, and market manipulation.

Before joining Cozen O’Connor, Brigeeta was a prosecutor in the Enforcement Department at the British Columbia Securities Commission, a Criminal Investigator, and a member of law enforcement. Brigeeta’s clients benefit from her extensive experience in investigations and enforcement proceedings before various securities and regulatory commissions, the Canada Border Services Agency, as well as national and international agencies, including Canada Revenue Agency, Internal Revenue Service, U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission, Federal Bureau of Investigation, and Interpol. Brigeeta’s clients rely upon her to work seamlessly across borders and with regulators and law enforcement officials throughout North America, Europe, and Asia.

Brigeeta has extensive experience guiding clients through myriad online piracy issues and complex disputes, including private and public company litigation. Brigeeta provides proactive risk-management advisory services and crisis response leadership to enable companies and luxury brand owners to avoid, prepare for, manage, and respond to extraordinary situations, including regulatory actions and litigation. Brigeeta regularly speaks at international conferences and law schools on the topics of securities enforcement, counterfeit goods, and fraud investigations. Brigeeta has also been called upon to educate international brand holders on both internal and external investigations and the strategic prevention of counterfeit goods and services within the international market. Her experience in matters related to counterfeit goods is invaluable to clients prosecuting and defending applications before the Trademarks Opposition Board and in enforcement actions before Canada’s Federal Court.

As an internationally Certified Fraud Examiner, Brigeeta represents clients with complex, cross-border internal investigations, including whistleblower complaints.  She is frequently called upon to provide strategic advice to management on workplace investigations, compliance assessments, and the remediation and prevention of cyber breaches and online and electronic disclosures. Brigeeta’s in-depth knowledge of the digital economy and intellectual property enforcement strategies is of significant strategic value to clients in the technology, manufacturing, retail, and entertainment industries.


Brigeeta Richdale
Brigeeta Richdale Vice Chair, White Collar Defense & Investigations
Cozen O'Connor (Canada)
Ian Herbert
Counsel
Miller & Chevalier (USA)

Ian Herbert represents global companies, executives, and trustees through government investigations and related litigation. Mr. Herbert has handled all aspects of multi-jurisdictional investigations, including complex legal analysis, global litigation strategy, and factual development. A member of the firm's Trust and Family Office and Anti-Money Laundering practice groups, Mr. Herbert has experience advising both individuals and entities, including multinational corporations, offshore trustees and financial services companies on a range of issues, including foreign bribery, tax fraud, and other financial crimes. 

Mr. Herbert has deep experience engaging with the Department of Justice (DOJ), Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC), and other federal and state regulators. Additionally, because his matters often involve a coordinated response to both U.S. and foreign regulators, Mr. Herbert is familiar with the relevant enforcement authorities outside the United States and is experienced in navigating the complex issues that occur in multi-jurisdictional investigations. Mr. Herbert has also represented individuals in federal district court on federal charges for racketeering, mail fraud, health care fraud, and obstruction of justice. 

Mr. Herbert maintains a robust pro bono practice focused primarily on representing individuals in criminal prosecutions and post-conviction proceedings. In 2017, he briefed, argued, and obtained a reversal of a criminal conviction in the D.C. Court of Appeals. In 2020, he secured the early release of another client under the First Step Act. 

Mr. Herbert writes regularly on issues related to white-collar criminal enforcement and money-laundering. He is an editor of both the Executives at Risk newsletter, which reports on noteworthy cases and investigations impacting corporate executives, and the Money Laundering Enforcement Trends newsletter, which focuses on developments in money laundering regulation and enforcement.


Ian Herbert
Ian Herbert Counsel
Miller & Chevalier (USA)
Howard A. Fischer
Partner
Moses & Singer (USA)

Howard Fischer has extensive experience in trying complex financial disputes. 

As a former Senior Trial Counsel at the U.S. Securities & Exchange Commission (SEC), he was entrusted with some of the most sophisticated and noteworthy cases that the federal government prosecuted in the last decade. During his nine year tenure at the SEC, he earned multiple awards for exemplary service and served as first chair for numerous trials. This included acting as lead counsel in the litigation against Wing Chau and Harding Advisory LLC - relating to CDO asset selection in the run-up to the financial crisis - resulting in a major conviction against one of the characters lampooned in the film “The Big Short.”  Howard was also the lead trial counsel in the prosecution of Kareem Serageldin, another figure referenced in “The Big Short”, involving the mismarking of certain mortgage-backed assets, by Credit Suisse, in the wake of the financial crisis.

Howard also led the SEC litigation involving the infamous London Whale, arising from JPMorgan Chase traders incurring multi-billion dollar losses in its credit derivatives book.  This case involved many years of discovery on several continents, including several multi-week depositions.


Howard A. Fischer
Howard A. Fischer Partner
Moses & Singer (USA)
Joel E. Cohen
Managing Director
Stout (USA)

Joel Cohen is a Managing Director in the Disputes, Compliance, & Investigations group.

Joel has over 19 years of experience in the dispute, forensic, and insolvency practice areas, most specifically focused in the financial services and asset management industries. His experience encompasses a number of significant cross-border insolvency and litigation matters, where he has served as financial advisor and consulting expert to fiduciaries, offshore liquidators, bankruptcy, and litigation trustees. He has assisted these clients in a variety of litigation consulting services, including asset tracing, fraud, Ponzi schemes, industry custom and practice for investment managers, and forensic analysis. Joel has also led several internal investigations within the context of family office, investment advisors, and various corporate structures.

Before joining Stout, Joel was a Managing Director at a boutique financial advisory and consulting firm. Prior to that, he spent a number of years with a global financial advisory firm in its Dispute & Investigations group where he helped manage a team of CPAs, economists, attorneys, and finance professionals in executing a diverse array of complex engagements related to the various hedge fund/private equity fraud, insolvencies, and litigations that characterized the global financial crisis of 2008-09.

He was a leader in the disputes practice at a Big 4 accounting firm and senior vice president at a prominent investment bank in charge of internal investigations. Joel has worked with premier law firms on accounting malpractice, business insurance disputes, fraud detection, and economic investigations.

Joel has expertise in managing the expectations of various stakeholders involved in insolvency proceedings, liquidations, litigation settlements, and receiverships, namely in his capacity of assisting a board, trustee, receiver, or official liquidator with their duties, including U.S. and cross border considerations. He has extensive experience within the offshore world, regularly handling cases out of the Caribbean.


Joel E. Cohen
Joel E. Cohen Managing Director
Stout (USA)
Jonathan Harris
Managing Partner NY Office
Harris St. Laurent & Wechsler (USA)

Jonathan Harris is the Firm’s Founder and Managing Partner. Trained as a trial lawyer, and having extensive business and financial experience, he is equally successful in the courtroom and in business negotiations.

Mr. Harris represents plaintiffs and defendants as lead counsel in litigations, arbitrations, mediations and investigations. He regularly advises companies, founders, and executives in employment matters, partnership and business deals.

Mr. Harris has been named as: a Super Lawyer for twelve consecutive years; is double ranked by Chambers in Litigation: White Collar Crime and Government Investigations and in Labor and Employment: Mainly Plaintiffs; is ranked by Lawdragon as one of the nation's top 500 Leading Plaintiff Employment & Civil Rights Lawyers; has been named American Lawyer’s Co-Litigator of the Week; named by the National Law Journal to its 2021 national list of Trailblazers in Employment Law; a two-time winner of ACQ Global Award’s Gamechanger of the Year for Litigation in New York; a two-time winner of Corporate LiveWire’s Global Award Winner for Investor Litigation; and to the Nation’s Top One Percent list by The National Association of Distinguished Counsel. He has also appeared on The Future Law Podcast. Mr. Harris is also a Fellow of the Litigation Counsel of America and the Trial Lawyer Honorary Society.


Jonathan Harris
Jonathan Harris Managing Partner NY Office
Harris St. Laurent & Wechsler (USA)
Nicholas Kennedy
Partner
Baker McKenzie (USA)

Nick Kennedy is a trial lawyer. Unlike many others at large law firms, Nick regularly tries high stakes cases—at least one per year, and often more. These cases have regularly had tens of millions, hundreds of millions, and in one case more than a billion in dispute. Nick has been first chair in 4 arbitrations with more than USD 100 million in controversy. On the offensive side, his clients have recovered at trial or arbitration nearly a billion dollars in cases he has handled. On the defensive side, he has helped clients avoid claims for many hundred millions more through successful defense verdicts or arbitration awards. While Nick thrives at trial, he also has a successful pre-and post-trial practice with scores of successful dispositive and expert motions, along with appeals all the way up to the U.S. Supreme Court.

Nick’s practices crosses industry and borders. He focuses heavily on the software, technology franchise, and consumer goods industries. Nick uses his ability to make complex technologies simple for jurors and arbitrators to represent technology owners in disputes about trade secrets, software performance, and contractual issues. He adeptly handles complicated financial concepts to represent business owners and partners in complex valuation, investment fraud, and fiduciary duty disputes. Nick regularly handles the damages portion of all types of complex cases, working closely with experts to do so. Nick also has a strong background with trade secrets and non-competes across industries, allowing him to help his clients protect their own IP and employees and defend against claims of misuse by others.

Nick routinely represents foreign clients in US disputes, or US clients in foreign disputes. He has arbitrated cases with all major arbitral institutions, including the ICC, ICDR, ICSID, UNCITRAL, JAMS, SCC, AAA, and LCIA. He has acted on behalf of investors against states in investor-state disputes under ICSID, UNCITRAL, LCIA, and SCC Arbitration Rules and in related enforcement proceedings. He has handled disputes in or related to several dozen countries. This diverse experience helps Nick to advise clients on how to craft appropriate dispute resolution clauses when drafting contracts, and how to maximize their benefits when a dispute arises. Finally, Nick’s international experience includes a strong track record of enforcing foreign judgments or arbitration awards in the US and abroad, including identifying and collecting upon assets of uncooperative debtors.


Nicholas Kennedy
Nicholas Kennedy Partner
Baker McKenzie (USA)
Bernardo Porras
Partner
Hughes & Hughes (Uruguay)

Co-responsible for the Litigation Department and strongly business oriented.  Specialized in financial entities and private- public  matters, he regularly guides the clients to practical solutions and seeks businesses opportunities for them.  He is also regularly involved in major real estate projects which include negotiations with governmental authorities, concessions and private-public solutions.


Bernardo Porras
Bernardo Porras Partner
Hughes & Hughes (Uruguay)
Scott Berman
Partner
Friedman Kaplan (USA)

Scott Berman has a varied practice in complex commercial disputes, particularly in securities, investment fund, and bankruptcy litigation. He regularly handles matters involving securities fraud, common law fraud, breach of fiduciary duty, breach of contract, fraudulent conveyance, and other claims arising from complex transactions.

Scott has extensive experience representing and advising large institutional investors, bankruptcy trustees, receivers, family offices, funds of funds, investment advisors, officers and directors and wealthy individuals in high-profile matters involving investment funds and their auditors, administrators, prime brokers, and other professionals, and has procured significant settlements. He also counsels investors and funds regarding investment decisions and potential issues before litigation has commenced and has resolved many matters pre-litigation.

Scott represents both plaintiffs and defendants in state and federal courts, including at trial and arbitration, and has significant experience handling cross-border disputes. He also acts as an arbitrator in cases involving financial disputes and has twenty years of experience serving as a mediator.


Scott Berman
Scott Berman Partner
Friedman Kaplan (USA)
Lincoln Caylor
Partner
Bennett Jones (Canada)

Litigator Lincoln Caylor advises clients on international economic crimes from asset-tracing investigations and asset-recovery litigation, to enforcement actions in complex, global financial frauds and related internal investigations, including Canada's anti-money laundering regime.


Lincoln Caylor
Lincoln Caylor Partner
Bennett Jones (Canada)
Michael Diaz
Partner
Diaz, Reus & Targ (USA)

Michael Diaz
Michael Diaz Partner
Diaz, Reus & Targ (USA)
Erin Broderick
Partner
Eversheds Sutherland (USA)

Erin serves as Eversheds Sutherland's (US) Head of Cross-Border Restructuring & Insolvency – Financial Restructuring Group.

Erin has extensive experience advising clients on restructuring, financial litigation, and distressed transactions, representing diverse stakeholders across the dispute and transactional spectrum. She has represented numerous parties in bankruptcy proceedings and insolvency-related litigation, including equity committees, ad hoc creditor committees, purchasers, lenders, foreign representatives, indenture trustees and debtors, with a particular focus on representation of investment funds in complex restructurings and commercial litigation.  Erin is recognized for her acute business acumen and ability to offer clients — from global financial institutions to start-up funds — proactive, creative and pragmatic solutions in complex and novel distressed scenarios.  


Erin Broderick
Erin Broderick Partner
Eversheds Sutherland (USA)

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