FIRE Starters Global Summit: Dublin

This Next Gen event brings together the rising stars of Asset Recovery, Fraud & Insolvency to forge networks, discuss experiences and build their own personal brand, at an affordable price
25th - 27th February 2026 | Conrad Hotel, Dublin, Ireland

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Agenda

Wednesday 26th February 2025 Thursday 27th February 2025 Friday 28th February 2025

Registration & Welcome
1.00pm

FIRE Starters Committee Welcome Remarks
1.50pm

Laurence Clarke, Senior Associate
Kingsley Napley (UK)

Evin Durmaz, Senior Associate
Monfrini Bitton Klein (Switzerland)

Catherine Eason, Partner
PCB Byrne (UK)

Jon Felce, Partner
Cooke, Young & Keidan (UK)

Sam Goodman, Barrister
Twenty Essex (UK)

Grant Noble, Director
Grant Thornton (UK)

Abigail Rushton, Senior Associate
Charles Russell Speechlys

Jessica Thorpe, Partner
Aletheia Intelligence

FIRE Up Your Career: Business Development Tools
2.00pm

  • How to pick and choose a mentor or mentee
  • Networking tips and tricks
  • Building your international practice 

David M. Mizrachi , Founder
MDU Legal (Panama)

Karen Stachura, Of Counsel
Collas Crill (Jersey)

Harmonising the International Scene
2:40pm

  • Dissecting and comparing common law vs civil law
  • Exploring the differing legal tools in asset recovery
  • Defining “Fraud” in the asset recovery space
  • The need to increase cross-jurisdictional collaboration

Beatriz Faneca, Partner
Faneca Advogados (Brazil)

Josephine Chee, Partner
Rajah & Tann (Singapore)

Marija Tosic, Senior Associate
Gasser Partner (Liechtenstein)

Networking & Refreshment Break
3.20pm

The Scope of Freezing Injunctions
3.40pm

  • Information to obtain for your defence strategy
  • Being pro-active – is this the right course of action?
  • Challenging a freezing order – risks and reward

Andreas Erotocritou, Partner
A.G. Erotocritou LLC (Cyprus)

Tobias Schaffner, Partner
Niedermann Rechtsanwälte (Switzerland)

Hadar Israeli, Partner
Barnea Jaffa Lande (Israel)

Andrew Barns-Graham (3HC), Barrister
3 Hare Court

Fail to Prevent, Prepare to Pay: Getting ready for the UK's Failure to Prevent Fraud offence
4.20pm

  • ECCTA23 and the new FTPF offence
  • The response to the new Home Office guidance
  • When it goes wrong: The cost of investigation vs. the cost of prevention

Conor O’Leary, Senior Associate
Mason Hayes & Curran (Ireland)

Adam Garside , Director | Forensics | EMEA
Control Risks

Harry Stewart, Senior Associate
Fladgate

Ashleigh Hothi, Senior Consultant
Control Risks

Committee Summation & Close of Day 1
5.00pm

Welcome Drinks Reception
5.10pm

Co-Hosted by

Women in FIRE Dinner
7.30pm

Allies welcome!

Register your interest here

Registration & Morning Refreshments
9.00am

FIRE Starters Committee Opening Remarks
9.30am

Keynote Session - Scamming The Scammers
9.40am

A well-known expert on romance fraud, hear from Becky Holmes who 'outs' online romance scammers. She shines a light on the darkest corners of the world of romance fraud.

Becky Holmes,
Romance Fraud Expert

Panel: Enforcement is Key
10.30am

  • Enforcing awards and judgements against third parties
  • Maximising the chance of recovery
  • Gaining judicial support and assistance
  • Fast tracking communication and orders

Max Marenbon, Barrister
Serle Court

Fabio Trevisan , Partner
BSP (Luxembourg)

Marek Keiman, Managing Associate
Magnusson (Estonia)

Simon Jerrum, Partner
Russell Cooke

Networking & Refreshment Break
11.20am

Workshop Sessions
11.50am

Build your own agenda! Choose one of the following themed streams:

Workshop A -
Practitioners of the Future
Workshop B -
101 on Asset Recovery
Workshop C -
Navigate the International World
The Path to Partner All About Asset Tracing Impacts on Your Cross-Border Work
  • Building your profile
  • Bringing work in and finding where the next case will come from
  • Leaning into cultural diversity – a naturally cross-border role
  • Navigating and exploring different client fee structures
  • How to break jurisdictional barriers to find assets
  • Can we reinvent the wheel? Assessing the traditional ways of asset tracing
  • Methods with e- discovery and cross-border work
  • Obtaining evidence from different jurisdictions
  • United States: looking extra-territorially - will the FEPA impact investigations? Trends on FCPA enforcements
  • China: investment of Chinese firms into other jurisdictions
  • Hong Kong: The power of police has to freeze assets using Letters of No Consent (without a court order)

Dmytro Marchukov, Co-Head of Cross-Border Litigation, Integrites (Ukraine)

Luca Angstmann, Partner, Buis Bürgi (Switzerland)

Hana Al Khatib, Partner, Global Advocacy and Legal Counsel (UAE)

Kees van de Meent, Partner, Florent (The Netherlands)

Déborah Bur, Associate, Archipel (France)

Max Mailliet, Founding Partner, E2M - Etude Max Mailliet (Luxembourg)

Amy Gregg, Barrister, 3VB

Marcelo Ribeiro, Partner, White Collar Crime, Lefosse (Brazil)

Ian De Witt, Partner, Tanner De Witt (Hong Kong)

Devon Airey, Barrister, 3VB

Emma Hughes, Barrister, 3VB

Networking & Lunch Break
12.40pm

Workshop Sessions
1.40pm

Build your own agenda! Choose one of the following themed streams:

Workshop A -
Practitioners of the Future
Workshop B -
101 on Asset Recovery
Workshop C -
Navigate the International World

Women in FIRE

(allies are welcome!)

 Restructuring & Insolvency Exploring the Offshore World
  • Empowerment tools – reducing stigma and supporting each other
  • Being seen in the workplace
  • Being aware of the mechanisms of insolvency across jurisdictions
  • What is the liability of directors – who is responsible?
  • Director’s duties - size of company, and informal processes
  • The involvement of public states in restructuring and insolvenc
  • Case Study: Lessons Learned from the Aviation Industry
  • Key things to be aware of for asset recovery at offshore jurisdictions
  • Hong Kong vs Grand Cayman
  • Mainland China – progression in the works

Aufa Radzi, Partner, Skrine (Malaysia)

Ingrid Tronshaug, Managing Associate, Wiersholm (Norway)

Katie Allard, Senior Associate, Kingsley Napley

Tomislav Sunjka, Founder & Principal, SunjkaLaw (Serbia)

Sarah Kocks, Attorney-at-Law, Kocks & Partners (Belgum)

Claudine Morgan, Legal Director, Charles Russell Speechlys

Eleana Poulladou, Associate, Michael Kyprianou (Cyprus)

Lynn Yin, Legal Director, Asserson (UK)

Jason Mbakwe, Senior Associate, Carey Olsen (Cayman Islands)

Workshop Sessions
2.30pm

Build your own agenda! Choose one of the following themed streams:

Workshop A -
Practitioners of the Future
Workshop B -
101 on Asset Recovery
Workshop C -
Navigate the International World

Help Or Hinder? Navigating Legal Technology –
A New Age for Next Gen Lawyers

 Fraud and Asset Tracing in the Crypto World Exploring The Flow of Work from Emerging Markets
  • Ensuring harmony with new legal tech tools
  • Staying up to date with the latest technologies
  • Integrating tools to stay relevant and efficient with your work
  • Tracking down where the crypto is held
  • Exploring injunctions for crypto
  • Where does crypto assets end up during bankruptcy
  • Updates on insolvency legislations
  • ‘Black box’ jurisdictions – the need to understanding the legal systems
  • What to do with a lack of transparency

David Ranzenhofer, Partner, Friedman Kaplan (USA)

Emanuele Rumi Rios, Senior Associate, GPD (Italy)

Julian Taufmann, Senior Associate, Noerr (Germany)

Katarzyna Szczudlik, Partner, Schoenherr (CEE)

Lionel Leo, Partner, WongPartnership (Singapore)

Irena Markitani, Counsel, A.G. Erotocritou LLC (Cyprus)

Justinas Jarusevicius, Partner, Attorney at law, Motieka Audzevicius (Lithuania)

Benedikt Konig, Attorney at Law, Paragraph7 (Liechtenstein)

Networking & Refreshment Break
3:20pm

The Law of Contempt: In Need of Reform?
3:50pm

  • The law of contempt in 2024 
  • Potential issues: weaponisation, complexity, lack of clarity and expense
  • Evaluation of UK Law Commission’s key proposals for reform
  • Comparative approaches to contempt

Edward Gilmore, Barrister
Twenty Essex (UK)

Karen Petch, Barrister
Twenty Essex

Clare Elliott, Senior Associate
Peters & Peters (UK)

Bill Geiringer , Senior Associate
Pinsent Masons

FIRE Starters Essay Competition Winner
4:40pm

Ryan Al-Hakim, Associate
Milbank

Committee Summation of Day 2 & Time to Change
5:10pm

FIRE up in RED Drinks Reception
6:00pm

Wear your best RED outfit!

Conference Dinner
7:30pm

After-Party Drinks Reception
9:30pm

HOUSE DUBLIN
27 Leeson Street Lower, Saint Kevin's, Dublin 2, Ireland

Hair of the Dog Morning Refreshments
10.00am

FIRE Starters Committee Welcome Back
10.30am

Keynote Session - Success isn’t Always in the Winning but in the Trying
10.35am

With his go-getter spirit, Eddie 'the Eagle' will inspire people on willingness to take risks, and allowing yourself to fail but also get back up and try again.

Eddie ‘the Eagle’ Edwards,
Olympic Ski Jumper (GB)

Sanctions and FIRE
11.15am

  • Anti-Suit injunctions and relief
  • Contractual obligations vs being in the scope of sanctioned regions
  • The interplay between the sanctions regime and commercial litigation
  • Tips on how to deal with sanctioned assets

Justinas Jarusevicius, Partner, Attorney at law
Motieka Audzevicius (Lithuania)

Hannah Blecha, Partner
Schwärzler Attorneys at Law (Liechtenstein)

Daniel Weber, Partner
Barandun (Switzerland)

Kit Smith, Managing Associate
Keidan Harrison

Networking & Refreshment Break
11.55am

Ethics in the Profession
12:10pm

  • Ethical considerations in investigative fraud claims
  • Dealing with pressure from clients
  • Things to do privately and publicly
  • Effectively getting relief against fraudsters and getting justice
  • Looking at entrapment and breaching injunctions

Davinia Cutajar, Partner
WH Partners (Malta)

Jens Stadtmüller, Lawyer and Founder
Stadtmüller Dispute Consulting (Germany)

Stéphane Bonifassi, Lawyer
Bonifassi Avocats (France)

The Other Side - How AI is Used from The View of Other Parties
12.50pm

  • The AI models used to hide assets
  • Assisting with legal research
  • Improving technology to find any kind of asset
  • Regulatory implications in the digital asset space

Théo Reljic, Counsel
Sekri Valentin Zerrouk (France)

Juliana Sato, Head of Debt Structure
eNor (Brazil)

Markus Taufner, Counsel
Wolf Theiss (Austria)

Neil Chauhan, Associate
HFW

Lunch & FIRE Starters Committee Summary
1.30pm

Networking Activity: Irish Whiskey Museum Tour
2.30pm


Hosted by

Meet at the Hotel Lobby at 2:30
Coach to depart at 2:45pm
Whiskey Tour to commence at 3:15
Tour ends at 4:30pm
Coach returns to the Conrad at 5pm

(Welcome to arrange your own transportation)


1.00pm
Registration & Welcome
1.50pm
FIRE Starters Committee Welcome Remarks
Laurence Clarke - Senior Associate - Kingsley Napley (UK)
Evin Durmaz - Senior Associate - Monfrini Bitton Klein (Switzerland)
Catherine Eason - Partner - PCB Byrne (UK)
Jon Felce - Partner - Cooke, Young & Keidan (UK)
Sam Goodman - Barrister - Twenty Essex (UK)
Grant Noble - Director - Grant Thornton (UK)
Abigail Rushton - Senior Associate - Charles Russell Speechlys
Jessica Thorpe - Partner - Aletheia Intelligence
2.00pm
FIRE Up Your Career: Business Development Tools
  • How to pick and choose a mentor or mentee
  • Networking tips and tricks
  • Building your international practice 
David M. Mizrachi - Founder - MDU Legal (Panama)
Karen Stachura - Of Counsel - Collas Crill (Jersey)
2:40pm
Harmonising the International Scene
  • Dissecting and comparing common law vs civil law
  • Exploring the differing legal tools in asset recovery
  • Defining “Fraud” in the asset recovery space
  • The need to increase cross-jurisdictional collaboration
Beatriz Faneca - Partner - Faneca Advogados (Brazil)
Josephine Chee - Partner - Rajah & Tann (Singapore)
Marija Tosic - Senior Associate - Gasser Partner (Liechtenstein)
3.20pm
Networking & Refreshment Break
3.40pm
The Scope of Freezing Injunctions
  • Information to obtain for your defence strategy
  • Being pro-active – is this the right course of action?
  • Challenging a freezing order – risks and reward
Andreas Erotocritou - Partner - A.G. Erotocritou LLC (Cyprus)
Tobias Schaffner - Partner - Niedermann Rechtsanwälte (Switzerland)
Hadar Israeli - Partner - Barnea Jaffa Lande (Israel)
Andrew Barns-Graham (3HC) - Barrister - 3 Hare Court
4.20pm
Fail to Prevent, Prepare to Pay: Getting ready for the UK's Failure to Prevent Fraud offence
  • ECCTA23 and the new FTPF offence
  • The response to the new Home Office guidance
  • When it goes wrong: The cost of investigation vs. the cost of prevention
Conor O’Leary - Senior Associate - Mason Hayes & Curran (Ireland)
Adam Garside - Director | Forensics | EMEA - Control Risks
Harry Stewart - Senior Associate - Fladgate
Ashleigh Hothi - Senior Consultant - Control Risks
5.00pm
Committee Summation & Close of Day 1
5.10pm
Welcome Drinks Reception

Co-Hosted by

7.30pm
Women in FIRE Dinner

Allies welcome!

Register your interest here

9.00am
Registration & Morning Refreshments
9.30am
FIRE Starters Committee Opening Remarks
9.40am
Keynote Session - Scamming The Scammers

A well-known expert on romance fraud, hear from Becky Holmes who 'outs' online romance scammers. She shines a light on the darkest corners of the world of romance fraud.

Becky Holmes - - Romance Fraud Expert
10.30am
Panel: Enforcement is Key
  • Enforcing awards and judgements against third parties
  • Maximising the chance of recovery
  • Gaining judicial support and assistance
  • Fast tracking communication and orders
Max Marenbon - Barrister - Serle Court
Fabio Trevisan - Partner - BSP (Luxembourg)
Marek Keiman - Managing Associate - Magnusson (Estonia)
Simon Jerrum - Partner - Russell Cooke
11.20am
Networking & Refreshment Break
11.50am
Workshop Sessions

Build your own agenda! Choose one of the following themed streams:

Workshop A -
Practitioners of the Future
Workshop B -
101 on Asset Recovery
Workshop C -
Navigate the International World
The Path to Partner All About Asset Tracing Impacts on Your Cross-Border Work
  • Building your profile
  • Bringing work in and finding where the next case will come from
  • Leaning into cultural diversity – a naturally cross-border role
  • Navigating and exploring different client fee structures
  • How to break jurisdictional barriers to find assets
  • Can we reinvent the wheel? Assessing the traditional ways of asset tracing
  • Methods with e- discovery and cross-border work
  • Obtaining evidence from different jurisdictions
  • United States: looking extra-territorially - will the FEPA impact investigations? Trends on FCPA enforcements
  • China: investment of Chinese firms into other jurisdictions
  • Hong Kong: The power of police has to freeze assets using Letters of No Consent (without a court order)

Dmytro Marchukov, Co-Head of Cross-Border Litigation, Integrites (Ukraine)

Luca Angstmann, Partner, Buis Bürgi (Switzerland)

Hana Al Khatib, Partner, Global Advocacy and Legal Counsel (UAE)

Kees van de Meent, Partner, Florent (The Netherlands)

Déborah Bur, Associate, Archipel (France)

Max Mailliet, Founding Partner, E2M - Etude Max Mailliet (Luxembourg)

Amy Gregg, Barrister, 3VB

Marcelo Ribeiro, Partner, White Collar Crime, Lefosse (Brazil)

Ian De Witt, Partner, Tanner De Witt (Hong Kong)

Devon Airey, Barrister, 3VB

Emma Hughes, Barrister, 3VB
12.40pm
Networking & Lunch Break
1.40pm
Workshop Sessions

Build your own agenda! Choose one of the following themed streams:

Workshop A -
Practitioners of the Future
Workshop B -
101 on Asset Recovery
Workshop C -
Navigate the International World

Women in FIRE

(allies are welcome!)

 Restructuring & Insolvency Exploring the Offshore World
  • Empowerment tools – reducing stigma and supporting each other
  • Being seen in the workplace
  • Being aware of the mechanisms of insolvency across jurisdictions
  • What is the liability of directors – who is responsible?
  • Director’s duties - size of company, and informal processes
  • The involvement of public states in restructuring and insolvenc
  • Case Study: Lessons Learned from the Aviation Industry
  • Key things to be aware of for asset recovery at offshore jurisdictions
  • Hong Kong vs Grand Cayman
  • Mainland China – progression in the works

Aufa Radzi, Partner, Skrine (Malaysia)

Ingrid Tronshaug, Managing Associate, Wiersholm (Norway)

Katie Allard, Senior Associate, Kingsley Napley

Tomislav Sunjka, Founder & Principal, SunjkaLaw (Serbia)

Sarah Kocks, Attorney-at-Law, Kocks & Partners (Belgum)

Claudine Morgan, Legal Director, Charles Russell Speechlys

Eleana Poulladou, Associate, Michael Kyprianou (Cyprus)

Lynn Yin, Legal Director, Asserson (UK)

Jason Mbakwe, Senior Associate, Carey Olsen (Cayman Islands)
2.30pm
Workshop Sessions

Build your own agenda! Choose one of the following themed streams:

Workshop A -
Practitioners of the Future
Workshop B -
101 on Asset Recovery
Workshop C -
Navigate the International World

Help Or Hinder? Navigating Legal Technology –
A New Age for Next Gen Lawyers

 Fraud and Asset Tracing in the Crypto World Exploring The Flow of Work from Emerging Markets
  • Ensuring harmony with new legal tech tools
  • Staying up to date with the latest technologies
  • Integrating tools to stay relevant and efficient with your work
  • Tracking down where the crypto is held
  • Exploring injunctions for crypto
  • Where does crypto assets end up during bankruptcy
  • Updates on insolvency legislations
  • ‘Black box’ jurisdictions – the need to understanding the legal systems
  • What to do with a lack of transparency

David Ranzenhofer, Partner, Friedman Kaplan (USA)

Emanuele Rumi Rios, Senior Associate, GPD (Italy)

Julian Taufmann, Senior Associate, Noerr (Germany)

Katarzyna Szczudlik, Partner, Schoenherr (CEE)

Lionel Leo, Partner, WongPartnership (Singapore)

Irena Markitani, Counsel, A.G. Erotocritou LLC (Cyprus)

Justinas Jarusevicius, Partner, Attorney at law, Motieka Audzevicius (Lithuania)

Benedikt Konig, Attorney at Law, Paragraph7 (Liechtenstein)
3:20pm
Networking & Refreshment Break
3:50pm
The Law of Contempt: In Need of Reform?
  • The law of contempt in 2024 
  • Potential issues: weaponisation, complexity, lack of clarity and expense
  • Evaluation of UK Law Commission’s key proposals for reform
  • Comparative approaches to contempt
Edward Gilmore - Barrister - Twenty Essex (UK)
Karen Petch - Barrister - Twenty Essex
Clare Elliott - Senior Associate - Peters & Peters (UK)
Bill Geiringer - Senior Associate - Pinsent Masons
4:40pm
FIRE Starters Essay Competition Winner
Ryan Al-Hakim - Associate - Milbank
5:10pm
Committee Summation of Day 2 & Time to Change
6:00pm
FIRE up in RED Drinks Reception

Wear your best RED outfit!

7:30pm
Conference Dinner
9:30pm
After-Party Drinks Reception

HOUSE DUBLIN
27 Leeson Street Lower, Saint Kevin's, Dublin 2, Ireland

10.00am
Hair of the Dog Morning Refreshments
10.30am
FIRE Starters Committee Welcome Back
10.35am
Keynote Session - Success isn’t Always in the Winning but in the Trying

With his go-getter spirit, Eddie 'the Eagle' will inspire people on willingness to take risks, and allowing yourself to fail but also get back up and try again.

Eddie ‘the Eagle’ Edwards - - Olympic Ski Jumper (GB)
11.15am
Sanctions and FIRE
  • Anti-Suit injunctions and relief
  • Contractual obligations vs being in the scope of sanctioned regions
  • The interplay between the sanctions regime and commercial litigation
  • Tips on how to deal with sanctioned assets
Justinas Jarusevicius - Partner, Attorney at law - Motieka Audzevicius (Lithuania)
Hannah Blecha - Partner - Schwärzler Attorneys at Law (Liechtenstein)
Daniel Weber - Partner - Barandun (Switzerland)
Kit Smith - Managing Associate - Keidan Harrison
11.55am
Networking & Refreshment Break
12:10pm
Ethics in the Profession
  • Ethical considerations in investigative fraud claims
  • Dealing with pressure from clients
  • Things to do privately and publicly
  • Effectively getting relief against fraudsters and getting justice
  • Looking at entrapment and breaching injunctions
Davinia Cutajar - Partner - WH Partners (Malta)
Jens Stadtmüller - Lawyer and Founder - Stadtmüller Dispute Consulting (Germany)
Stéphane Bonifassi - Lawyer - Bonifassi Avocats (France)
12.50pm
The Other Side - How AI is Used from The View of Other Parties
  • The AI models used to hide assets
  • Assisting with legal research
  • Improving technology to find any kind of asset
  • Regulatory implications in the digital asset space
Théo Reljic - Counsel - Sekri Valentin Zerrouk (France)
Juliana Sato - Head of Debt Structure - eNor (Brazil)
Markus Taufner - Counsel - Wolf Theiss (Austria)
Neil Chauhan - Associate - HFW
1.30pm
Lunch & FIRE Starters Committee Summary
2.30pm
Networking Activity: Irish Whiskey Museum Tour


Hosted by

Meet at the Hotel Lobby at 2:30
Coach to depart at 2:45pm
Whiskey Tour to commence at 3:15
Tour ends at 4:30pm
Coach returns to the Conrad at 5pm

(Welcome to arrange your own transportation)


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