Cathrine Wollenberg Zittan

Cathrine advises on business-related issues, including estate administration, handling creditor positions and reconstruction/refinancing and management liability and the professional liability of advisors.

Boris Frederiksen

Boris is one of Denmark’s most experienced insolvency and asset recovery attorneys. He has assisted in numerous financial restructuring cases in Denmark and acted as a liquidator in high-profile insolvency proceedings for a number of large Danish companies; the majority of these cases have included substantial cross-border elements.

Cases where Boris has been appointed as a liquidator include, IT Factory, Sandgården A/S and a number of other real estate developers, Eurotrust A/S, Capinordic Bank A/S, Amagerbanken A/S, Fjordbank Mors A/S, Max Bank A/S, Tønder Bank A/S, Alpha Insurance A/S, Qudos Insurance A/S, Gefion Finans A/S, The Skare Group including Skare Meat Packers K/S and also the recent environmental scandal in Nordic Waste A/S.

Boris has also assisted authorities and financial institutions in complex fraud cases and is currently advising The Danish tax authorities in a multi jurisdiction fraud case involving a 13 billion DKK fraud with fraudulent refunds of withholding tax on dividends. The case involves more than 500 lawsuits in 8 different jurisdictions across the world and subsequent asset recovery in multiple jurisdictions.

He is widely recognised in all large international rating agencies as a leading practitioner in Insolvency and Restructuring in Denmark. His experience and expertise mean that he is regularly approached to handle the most complex cases in Denmark, and is regularly appointed by the Danish FSA, the Danish authorities and by major financial institutions to handle complex cases. He acts as liquidator or as advisor in respect of all matters related to bankruptcy or asset recovery.

Boris is an experienced litigator, and he has been entitled to appear before the Danish Supreme Court since 2001 and appears before the Supreme Court on a regular basis. He is the Deputy Chairman of the Association of Danish Insolvency lawyers; and for over 10 years has been the Chairman of the Board at Poul Schmith in which time, the firm has become the largest law firm in Denmark, known to be a full service domestic Danish law firm with offices in Copenhagen and Aarhus.

Yitzhak Yaari

Adv. Yitzhak Yaari is a partner and head of the Civil Litigation and Class Actions department at Chen, Yaari, Vaki & Co. For over 30 years, Adv. Yaari has represented business executives, government companies, banks, and other commercial entities in diverse civil and commercial disputes heard in courts and arbitrations. Among Adv. Yaari’s recent successes is an arbitration award issued by a retired Supreme Court Justice, through which Adv. Yaari succeeded in recovering tens of millions of dollars for his client – a businessman who fell victim to a massive fraud scheme. During the arbitration, funds and art collections owned by shell companies in Israel and worldwide were frozen.
The other name partners at Chen, Yaari, Vaki & Co. – attorneys Jack Chen and Yaniv Vaki – are among Israel’s leading white-collar defense lawyers. The combination of specialties – civil litigation and white-collar defense – makes Chen, Yaari, Vaki & Co. a boutique firm providing comprehensive solutions for court representation.
Adv. Yaari holds an LL.B. from the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. He co-authored (with Adv. Doron Tamir) the book “Bills Case Law” (Nevo Publishing), which has been published in three editions.
Adv. Yaari is a certified ICC arbitrator.

Nick Dunne

Nick works in the Insolvency & Dispute Resolution Group at Walkers.

He focusses on complex international and cross-border commercial disputes and arbitrations with a particular emphasis on fraud and asset recovery. He also advises on a range of contentious and non-contentious employment matters.

Nick frequently appears before the Grand Court and the Cayman Islands Court of Appeal, and has experience of appeals to the Judicial Committee of the Privy Council. He also heads up the Cayman Islands Employment Group, and has dealt with both contentious and non-contentious labour and licensing matters.

Tara Roche

Tara is a senior associate in the Litigation, Dispute Resolution and Investigations Group and a member of the Corporate Crime Group at Arthur Cox LLP.

In her corporate crime practice, Tara advises both corporate clients and regulatory and state bodies on all aspects of corporate, financial and regulatory crime, including civil and criminal fraud; regulatory enforcement; prosecution and defence; asset tracing; mutual legal assistance; internal and criminal investigations; and EU sanctions. Tara also advises on anti-bribery and corruption; corporate governance, protected disclosures; lobbying; whistleblowing; ethics in public office; and money laundering legislation.

Tara was recognised at the Women in Business Law Awards 2024, winning the EMEA Litigation Rising Star Award.

Luca Cavagnaro

Luca Cavagnaro deals with commercial and corporate law and advises on ordinary and extraordinary operations.

He has assisted both national and international clients, including listed companies, on matters within the environment and energy, shipping, transport and logistics sectors.  Luca advises on matters related to corporate governance and compliance matters, including legislative decree 231/2001, ethics, anti-corruption, anti-money laundering, human rights and HSE.