FIRE Americas & Offshore Virtual
22 Sep 2020
Location: Midday Cayman, 1pm Miami, 6pm London - Virtual Event (Zoom) Members: FREE - Book by 22 Sep

Highlights
FIRE Americas & Offshore is a unique virtual series of events, spread across 2 bullet sessions. It will drill down into the key Asset Recovery issues across the region, chaired by Paul Kennedy - Campbells & Leyza Blanco - Sequor Law
Benefit from 2 distinct event dates
- 22nd September - Turn on your Offshore SatNav
- 21st October - North & South America in focus
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FIRE Americas & Offshore Asset Recovery Experts include

Shareholder
Sequor Law (USA)

Sequor Law (USA)

Partner
DFA Advogados (Brazil)
Marcelo Lucidi is a partner of DFA (Brazil), specialising in cross-border insolvency, asset recovery and distressed M&A. He has experience both in the transactional area, in projects of reorganisation and purchase of publicly and closely held companies, and in commercial litigation with a focus on insolvency. He has advised investors in the purchase of assets of companies in judicial reorganisation or bankruptcy. In the area of international recovery of assets, he advises financial institutions, trustees and a variety of creditors in identifying and recovering assets diverted as a result of bankruptcy fraud as well as fraud in the capital markets.

DFA Advogados (Brazil)
Managing Director
Grant Thornton (Cayman)
Grant Thornton (Cayman)

Partner
Campbells (Cayman)

Campbells (Cayman)
Partner
FFP (Cayman)
FFP (Cayman)

Partner
Cooke, Young & Keidan
Natalie has expertise in litigation and arbitration involving banking and financial services, insolvency, trust, contractual, partnership, shareholder and commercial disputes. She has a particular specialism in fraud and asset recovery and has acted on some high profile Russian and CIS cases. She has worked on multi-jurisdictional asset tracing cases, including obtaining extensive Worldwide Freezing, Search, Disclosure and Passport Surrender Orders in one of Russia’s biggest ever alleged bank frauds.
Natalie is on the list of Supervising Solicitors and has hands on experience of working on highly contested search orders involving multiple parties. She recently assisted the Civil Procedure Rules Committee with the drafting of the new precedent Imaging Order.
Natalie typically advises on cases involving fraud, breach of trust, deceit, misrepresentation and conspiracy. She has acted for a wide range of international clients ranging from insolvency practitioners, a pension provider subject to a pensions’ liberation fraud, creditors of a ponzi scheme, minority shareholders in a large high street brand, an investment bank, a commodities trading entity, to state appointed liquidators of banks in significant claims to recover proceeds of fraud. Cases often have an international element and involve interim relief applications, jurisdiction challenges, enforcement of awards/orders and asset tracing.
Background
Natalie qualified as a lawyer in England and Wales in 2005 having obtained an LLB Law with German Law Hons from King’s College London and her LPC (distinction) from the College of Law. She trained and qualified at SJ Berwin LLP. She has worked in the litigation teams at Lawrence Graham LLP, Signature Litigation LLP and Taylor Wessing LLP. She joined civil fraud boutique PCB Litigation LLP (which subsequently became PCB Byrne) and was made up to partner in 2019. Natalie joined Cooke, Young and Keidan LLP in April 2022.
What the legal directories say
The Legal 500 (2022) edition recognises Natalie as a Next Generation Partner in Civil Fraud and Commercial Litigation and recommends her for Banking Litigation.
The Legal 500 describes Natalie as “a hard working, knowledgeable and client oriented practitioner”, “personable, professional and user friendly”, “great to work with, always on top of the detail” and as “a junior partner who is one to watch. Great management of the case team and extremely good at telling the client how it is”. She is “known for [her] strategic thinking and [is] client-oriented” and has “excellent control of her cases and is an excellent leader”.
In The Legal 500 2020 edition, Natalie is identified as a key lawyer for civil fraud and in the 2021 edition, she is also identified as a key lawyer for Commercial Litigation and Banking Litigation and is described as “creative in approach [with] excellent client communication”.
Professional groups
Natalie is Honorary Secretary of the London Solicitors Litigation Association and is on the Founding Committee for next generation practitioners for Thought Leaders4 Disputes and the IWIRC European Networks Steering Committee.
Her professional memberships include the Law Society of England and Wales, Commercial Fraud Lawyers Association, Thought Leaders4 FIRE and RAIIDAR International (Recovering Assets, Insolvency, Investigations, Disputes and Restructuring).
Publications, articles and seminars
Natalie is a member of Lexis PSL’s Case Analysis Expert Panel on Dispute Resolution and regularly writes case summaries for that publication. She is co-editor of the England and Wales chapter of “Enforcement of Foreign Judgments”. She is actively involved in responding to legal consultations for the LSLA.
She has had numerous speaking engagements including the annual ABA/RAA Conference on the resolution of CIS-related disputes, The Law Society’s English Law Week in Russia and on numerous Thought Leaders4 webinars.

Cooke, Young & Keidan
Director
BDO CRI (Cayman)
BDO CRI (Cayman)
Partner
Conyers (BVI)
Conyers (BVI)
Agenda
22nd September - Midday Cayman, 1pm Miami, 6pm London. All times below are Miami
Speakers:
Paul Kennedy - Partner - Campbells (Cayman)
Leyza Florin - Shareholder - Sequor Law (USA)
This session will focus on the asset recovery steps available offshore, the pros and cons of each from an officeholder perspective, differences between the jurisdictions (e.g. Black Swan).
Speakers:Michael Pearson - Partner - FFP (Cayman)
Margot MacInnis - Managing Director - Grant Thornton (Cayman)
Tameka Davis - Partner - Conyers (BVI)
Paul Kennedy - Partner - Campbells (Cayman)
This case study session will illuminate an insolvency proceeding precipitated by the drop in the price of coffee due to Covid, which uncovered an underlying fraud involving a coffee exporter with ties to the US, Brazil, Cayman and London.
Speakers:Marcelo Lucidi - Partner - DFA Advogados (Brazil)
Declan Magennis - Director - BDO CRI (Cayman)
Natalie Todd - Partner - Cooke, Young & Keidan
Leyza Florin - Shareholder - Sequor Law (USA)

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