William Brock, Ad. E

William is a leader of the commercial litigation group at Davies Ward Phillips & Vineberg LLP, a leading Canadian law firm. His practice is comprised of significant commercial and corporate litigation matters, including fraud and misappropriation claims, commercial contractual disputes, and shareholders disputes for a wide range of clients, including leading Canadian and foreign corporations and government entities. He regularly appears before the Quebec Superior Court, the Quebec Court of Appeal and the Supreme Court of Canada as well as provincial and federal administrative tribunals. He has also acted as counsel or as an arbitrator in numerous significant commercial arbitrations.

William has spoken or lectured at a large number of conferences in Canada and elsewhere, and at McGill University in relation to corporate law, litigation, fraud and misappropriation remedies and arbitration. He is listed in L’Expert/Thomson as one of Canada’s 100 Most Creative Lawyers, in L’Expert American Lawyer as one the 500 Leading Lawyers in Canada, and was recognized by L’Expert as one of the Top 25 Corporate Litigators in Canada. He is also recommended as a leading individual in Dispute Resolution in Chambers Global, and is recognized in the Who’s Who of Canada.

William was very fortunate to have survived acute leukemia in 2004, thanks to a stem cell transpant from one of his brothers, and the miracles of science and medicine. He is active in fundraising for blood cancer research, the development of stem cell technologies, and patient support, and often speaks on the importance of science and research.

Pernille Bigaard

Pernille is one of Denmark’s most experienced insolvency attorneys, and she has assisted in a number of financial restructurings and in the insolvency proceedings against a wide range of large Danish companies including Sterling Airways A/S, Sterling Airlines A/S, Centerplan A/S, Sandgården A/S, O. W. Bunker A/S, Fona A/S, Arnold Busck A/S and ACT Global A/S.

Pernille is widely recognised by the large international rating agencies as leading in Denmark in Insolvency and Restructuring. Her extensive experience and expertise means that she is often asked to handle the most complex cases in Denmark; for instance as trustee of the estate in bankruptcy of O.W. Bunker, which is the largest bankruptcy in Denmark in recent times.

Since 1988, Pernille has been entitled to appear before the Danish Supreme Court and she has conducted several significant cases in relation to bankrupt and insolvent businesses.

As the then chairman of the Danish Association of Trustees (in Danish: Kuratorforeningen) Pernille participated in the establishment of the Association of Danish Insolvency Lawyers in 2004, and she was chairman until 2018. For a number of years, Pernille also chaired the Danish Bar and Law Society’s Insolvency Law Committee and the Association of Danish Law Firms’ Insolvency Law Committee. Pernille is also a member of The Danish Debt Collection Agency’s select group of attorneys whom the Agency may appoint as trustees.

Pernille represents Denmark ICC’s FraudNet, a global organisation specialised in Fraud and Asset Recovery.

Dr. Aimee Prieto

Dr. Aimee Prieto is a Certified Fraud Examiner (CFE) and an attorney from the Dominican Republic with 20 years of practice. She is the founding partner of Prieto Cabrera & Asociados established in 2008, a law firm specializing in asset recovery and investigations, real estate transactions, and litigation. Aimee has worked on multiple asset recovery cases involving valuable assets. Among these cases are complex asset cases of the United States Government, including the first successful asset civil forfeiture between the United States of America and the Dominican Republic related to a multi-million dollar healthcare fraud forfeiture committed in the U.S. with the ill-gotten proceeds invested in the Dominican Republic. Aimee is the Co-Chair of the Latin American Network for IWIRC (International Women”s Insolvency and Restructuring Confederation), the premier global organization for women in the restructuring and insolvency professions.

John Oxenham

John has practiced in the regulatory, commercial litigation and antitrust fields locally and across the African region for over 20 years. He has been recognized as a leader in his field for many of these. Recently, John represented Business at the OECD as the first regional representative. John has acted in many of the leading antitrust, commercial litigation and regulatory matters in South Africa and the region. He has been a partner in a major South African firm, co-founder of a South African practice and the founder of a Pan-African legal group.

Significant Matters:

• Successfully advised Monsanto & Company in relation to the USD 66 billion acquisition by Bayer ATKG before the South African agencies.

• Represented Allergan Plc in the much-publicised proposed acquisition of Allergan by Pfizer Incorporated.

• Advised Comcast in relation to regional antitrust issues during its bid for 20th Century Fox.

• Successfully advised both Samsung Electronics Company Limited and Harman International Industries Incorporated in obtaining unconditional clearance of the large merger before the South African competition authorities.

• Successfully advised Merck & Co. and Sanofi-Aventis SA in relation to their much publicised animal health joint venture.

• Advised Verizon Business in relation to the disposal of its South African business to MTN Limited.

• Advised Anglo American in relation to the sale of Anglo’s zinc assets to Vedanta Plc.

• Successfully represented Eli Lily Animal Health Elanco in relation to the acquisition of Novartis Animal Health before the South African competition authorities.

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https://primerio.international/our-people/john-oxenham/

Michael-James Currie

As an active member of the ICC’s Fraudnet, the world’s leading asset recovery group, Michael-James is well versed with the anti-corruption laws in Southern Africa as well as the UK Bribery Act and the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act. Michael-James’ practice in this area includes conducting internal investigations, compliance, litigation and asset recovery.

For full bio please see link below:
https://primerio.international/our-people/michael-james-currie/

Tomislav Sunjka

Mr. Tomislav Sunjka established Law office of ŠunjkaLaw in 2000 as a self-governing legal entity. Regarding the specific position of Serbia, being on the crossroad of the East and the West and influenced by many phenomena from both sides, Mr.Tomislav Sunjka has developed a specific range of legal services.

Having experienced that problems may derive from all sorts of business relationships, he also gained vast experience in the following areas: corporate law and M&A, international and domestic commercial and trade law, energy law, carriage transport insurance and insurance law, contract law, foreign commercial law, forwarding law, banking law, financial and securities law, privatization law, foreign investments law, concession law, the law of international donations, arbitration, labor law and media law.

Because of this background, Mr. Tomislav Sunjka understands very well the nature of the transactions, bank transfers, financial arrangements, and he uses that knowledge as tools and instruments in practice of asset tracking and asset recovery.

Mr. Tomislav Sunjka represents victims white collar crime: frauds committed by business and government professionals, bankruptcy and bankruptcy fraud, bribery, insider trading, embezzlement, computer crime, public corruption, copyright infringement, money laundering, identity theft, corrupt organizations crimes, consumer fraud, securities fraud, financial fraud, forgery etc.

He practices nationally, nationally with cross border elements and internationally.

He is a member of several legal organizations and winner of several legal awards. He has published professional articles in legal journals. He is a member of Vojvodina and Serbia Bar and International Bar Association.