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
26th - 28th February 2025, 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)

Catherine Eason, Partner
PCB Byrne (UK)

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

Sam Goodman, Barrister
Twenty Essex (UK)

Benoît Mauron, Partner
LALIVE (Switzerland)

Grant Noble, Director
Grant Thornton (UK)

Abigail Rushton, Senior Associate
Charles Russell Speechlys

Jessica Thorpe, Director, Business Intelligence
DGA Group (UK)

FIRE Up Your Career: Business Development Tools
2.00pm

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

David M. Mizrachi , Founder
MDU Legal (Panama)

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)

Dr. Katarzyna Witkowska, Partner
CRIDO (Poland)

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)

Maria Tereza Costa Passarella, Founding Partner
Costa Passarella & Accioly Advogados Associados (Brazil)

Enforcement is Key
4.20pm

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

Fabio Trevisan , Partner
BSP (Luxembourg)

Marek Keiman, Managing Associate
Magnusson (Estonia)

Max Marenbon, Barrister
Serle Court

Simon Jerrum, Partner
Russell Cooke

Committee Summation & Close of Day 1
5.00pm

Welcome Drinks Reception
5.00pm

Women in FIRE Dinner
7.30pm

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: Prevention, Prevention, Prevention
10.30am

  • Improving your prevention tools
  • Minimising the consequences and avoiding liquidation
  • How to effectively predict and prepare for the future
  • Legal instruments and tools to protect your assets

Evin Durmaz, Senior Associate
Monfrini Bitton Klein (Switzerland)

Laura Voda, Partner
Fichte & Co (UAE)

Mostafa Abdelhamid, Senior Associate
Khodeir & Partners (UAE)

Midori Yamaguchi, Senior Associate
Mori Hamada & Matsumoto (Japan)

Networking & Refreshment Break
11.10am

Workshop Sessions
11.40am

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)

Gretel Scott, 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
12.20pm

Workshop Sessions
1.30pm

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
Women in FIRE Restructuring & Insolvency Exploring the Offshore World
  • Empowerment tools – reducing stigma and supporting each other
  • Being seen in the workplace
  • Views from a diversity officer
  • 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)

Tomislav Sunjka, Founder & Principal, SunjkaLaw (Serbia)

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

Michelle Wiesner-Lameth, Partner, act legal (Germany)

Eleana Poulladou, Associate, Michael Kyprianou (Cyprus)

Workshop Sessions
2.10pm

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
  • Demo: Blockchain Tracing
  • 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)

Ciaran Healy, Head of Corporate Legal and General Counsel, CDB Aviation 

Jason Teo, Associate Director, Setia Law (Singapore)

Julian Taufmann, Senior Associate, Noerr (Germany)

Katarzyna Szczudlik, Partner, Schoenherr (CEE)

Lionel Leo, Partner, WongPartnership (Singapore)

Gabriela Menna Barreto Scanlon, Founding Partner, MB Scanlon (South America)

Networking & Refreshment Break
2:50pm

FIRE Starters Committee Welcome Back
3:10pm

Panel: The Other Side - How AI is Used from The View of Other Parties
3:15pm

  • 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)

Panel: Sanctions and FIRE
3:55pm

  • 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)

Debate: The Burning Questions for the Year Ahead
4:35pm

Each speaker has 5 minutes to say what they think the main FIRE topic will be, with the opportunity for a 30 second rebuttal and then it goes to an audience vote

Committee Summation of Day 2 & Time to Change
5:15pm

FIRE up in RED Drinks Reception
6:00pm

Prize for the best dressed!  

Conference Dinner
7:30pm

After-Party Drinks Reception
10:00pm

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)

The In-House Perspective: War Stories
11.15am

  •   Unexpected distressed situations – what advice did they seek and was it useful?
  • Dealing with your board of directors and assuming responsibility
  • Prioritising the legal work
  • Public relations and working together with other departments

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)

FIRE Starters Essay Competition Winner
12.50pm

Presented by: 

Lunch & FIRE Starters Committee Summary
13.10pm

Meet For Networking Activity
2.30pm

Tour of the Guinness Storehouse


1.00pm
Registration & Welcome
1.50pm
FIRE Starters Committee Welcome Remarks
Laurence Clarke - Senior Associate - Kingsley Napley (UK)
Catherine Eason - Partner - PCB Byrne (UK)
Jon Felce - Partner - Cooke, Young & Keidan (UK)
Sam Goodman - Barrister - Twenty Essex (UK)
Benoît Mauron - Partner - LALIVE (Switzerland)
Grant Noble - Director - Grant Thornton (UK)
Abigail Rushton - Senior Associate - Charles Russell Speechlys
Jessica Thorpe - Director, Business Intelligence - DGA Group (UK)
2.00pm
FIRE Up Your Career: Business Development Tools
  • How to pick and choose a mentor or mentee
  • Networking tips and tricks
  • Building youor international practice 
David M. Mizrachi - Founder - MDU Legal (Panama)
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)
Dr. Katarzyna Witkowska - Partner - CRIDO (Poland)
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)
Maria Tereza Costa Passarella - Founding Partner - Costa Passarella & Accioly Advogados Associados (Brazil)
4.20pm
Enforcement is Key
  • Enforcing arbitration awards against third parties
  • Maximising the chance of recovery
  • Gaining judicial support and assistance
  • Fast tracking communication and orders
Fabio Trevisan - Partner - BSP (Luxembourg)
Marek Keiman - Managing Associate - Magnusson (Estonia)
Max Marenbon - Barrister - Serle Court
Simon Jerrum - Partner - Russell Cooke
5.00pm
Committee Summation & Close of Day 1
5.00pm
Welcome Drinks Reception
7.30pm
Women in FIRE Dinner

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: Prevention, Prevention, Prevention
  • Improving your prevention tools
  • Minimising the consequences and avoiding liquidation
  • How to effectively predict and prepare for the future
  • Legal instruments and tools to protect your assets
Evin Durmaz - Senior Associate - Monfrini Bitton Klein (Switzerland)
Laura Voda - Partner - Fichte & Co (UAE)
Mostafa Abdelhamid - Senior Associate - Khodeir & Partners (UAE)
Midori Yamaguchi - Senior Associate - Mori Hamada & Matsumoto (Japan)
11.10am
Networking & Refreshment Break
11.40am
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)

Gretel Scott, 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
12.20pm
Networking & Lunch Break
1.30pm
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
Women in FIRE Restructuring & Insolvency Exploring the Offshore World
  • Empowerment tools – reducing stigma and supporting each other
  • Being seen in the workplace
  • Views from a diversity officer
  • 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)

Tomislav Sunjka, Founder & Principal, SunjkaLaw (Serbia)

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

Michelle Wiesner-Lameth, Partner, act legal (Germany)

Eleana Poulladou, Associate, Michael Kyprianou (Cyprus)
2.10pm
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
  • Demo: Blockchain Tracing
  • 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)

Ciaran Healy, Head of Corporate Legal and General Counsel, CDB Aviation 

Jason Teo, Associate Director, Setia Law (Singapore)

Julian Taufmann, Senior Associate, Noerr (Germany)

Katarzyna Szczudlik, Partner, Schoenherr (CEE)

Lionel Leo, Partner, WongPartnership (Singapore)

Gabriela Menna Barreto Scanlon, Founding Partner, MB Scanlon (South America)
2:50pm
Networking & Refreshment Break
3:10pm
FIRE Starters Committee Welcome Back
3:15pm
Panel: 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)
3:55pm
Panel: 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)
4:35pm
Debate: The Burning Questions for the Year Ahead

Each speaker has 5 minutes to say what they think the main FIRE topic will be, with the opportunity for a 30 second rebuttal and then it goes to an audience vote

5:15pm
Committee Summation of Day 2 & Time to Change
6:00pm
FIRE up in RED Drinks Reception

Prize for the best dressed!  

7:30pm
Conference Dinner
10:00pm
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
The In-House Perspective: War Stories
  •   Unexpected distressed situations – what advice did they seek and was it useful?
  • Dealing with your board of directors and assuming responsibility
  • Prioritising the legal work
  • Public relations and working together with other departments
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
FIRE Starters Essay Competition Winner

Presented by: 

13.10pm
Lunch & FIRE Starters Committee Summary
2.30pm
Meet For Networking Activity

Tour of the Guinness Storehouse


Event Partners

Event Partner

3VB

Monfrini Bitton Klein

Serle Court

Collas Crill

Twenty Essex
Lunch Partner

Russell-Cooke
Supporting Partner

Meet In Ireland

Failte Ireland

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