Kate McMahon, one of the founding partners of Edmonds Marshall McMahon, is a specialist dual-qualified prosecutor specialising in complex and serious fraud, money laundering, corruption and regulatory crime.

Kate has formely held impressive positions within the SRA, Department of Public Prosecutions (Australia), Government Legal Service (UK) and the Serious Fraud Office where she worked as a senior lawyer on some of the UK’s largest and most complex cross-jurisdictional prosecutions.

In 2012, Kate was a founding partner of Edmonds Marshall McMahon. Kate typically acts in cases involving corporate or banking frauds of significant value.

Kate is known for her incisive analysis and strategic vision, is highly regarded by her clients and has a reputation for being extremely determined and driven in all her cases. Kate has been described as “highly commercial”, “a formidable adversary” and “highly respected” by the Legal 500 and has been a recommended individual in the area of white-collar crime since 2013.

She has been recognised in the ‘Women in Law Awards’ (The Lawyer Monthly) and was voted ‘Best Female Fraud Lawyer – UK’ by the Corporate Livewire Awards in 2015. She is currently one of the selected solicitors to act together with the Government in a new City of London Police initiative to tackle fraud. In 2017, Kate was named in The Lawyer’s “Hot 100” which lists the most creative and influential lawyers in the U.K.

Luis Alfredo Barragán Arango is the founding partner of Asteri Law Firm, a Colombian boutique, truly independent, primary dedicated to Litigation, Arbitration, Insolvency, and Asset Recovery.

With more than 30 years of experience, Luis Alfredo has an extensive expertise in representing high-profile clients in the most complex domestic and cross-border insolvency proceedings, both in Colombia and overseas. Also, Luis Alfredo has as counsel in international and domestic arbitrations, and in the most representative litigations in Colombia before domestic courts. He is acclaimed for his deep knowledge in highly complex disputes related to public law, telecommunications, oil & gas, secured transactions, and commercial matters. His practice covers all areas of sophisticated litigations, alternative dispute resolution, restructuring, asset recovery, and insolvency matters.

Luis Alfredo is also member of the International Association of Restructuring, Insolvency and Bankruptcy Professionals – INSOL (London – UK) and has also served as counsel for the World Bank, the Inter-American Bank of Development, and the USAID on matters related to guarantees and their execution within reorganization proceedings. He has also drafted several bills to amend the Colombian General Procedure Code.

Moreover, Mr. Barragán has acted as leading counsel in arbitrations conducted under the main institutional arbitration rules, such as the ICC rules and the UNCITRAL rules, and has also served as international arbitrator in proceedings held under the ICC rules and the Permanent Court of Arbitration (PCA) rules. He has also been appointed as an expert witness before US Courts. He is part of the Lists of Arbitrators of the Chambers of Commerce of Bogotá, Cali, Cartagena, and Medellin, and is member to the Latin American Arbitration Group of the ICC.

He has been ranked as one of the best lawyers of his specialty by Who’s Who Legal, Chambers & Partners, Latin Lawyer, Best Lawyers, Euromoney, The Legal 500 Latin America, among others.

Lee Shih is a commercial disputes lawyer and the managing partner of Lim Chee Wee Partnership. He acts regularly in matters involving commercial and corporate disputes, including fraud and asset recovery, shareholders’ disputes, international arbitrations and contentious insolvency matters.

He has acted in multi-jurisdictional fraud and asset recovery matters. He regularly works with forensic accountants, intelligence companies, and foreign counsel in leading and coordinating fraud litigation. He has acted for and advised state-owned entities, foreign multinationals, and private equity funds.

He is recognised in the area of dispute resolution in the legal directories of Chambers Asia-Pacific and The Legal 500 Asia-Pacific.

Lim Chee Wee Partnership is a boutique litigation firm specialising in commercial litigation and international arbitration. The three founding partners were from the dispute resolution practice of one of Malaysia’s largest law firms.

Ashanti was admitted to practice in Belize in 2004 and during this time she has garnered considerable experience in litigation and transactional matters. She has worked on several landmark constitutional and trade mark cases, complex multi-jurisdictional fraud and asset recovery cases, labour disputes, real estate disputes, commercial disputes, local and offshore corporations and real estate transactions. She also has considerable experience in banking and has represented foreign lenders in one of Belize’s largest multi-million dollar syndicated loans.

Ashanti is considered a leading attorney in Belize in Fraud and Asset Recovery, and has presented at local and international conferences on Belize’s Offshore Sector and Asset Recovery in Belize. Due to her work in asset recovery, in 2013 she was invited to join ICC FraudNet, a network of attorneys who specialize in Fraud and Asset Recovery.

Ashanti has argued before the Supreme Court and the Court of Appeal in Belize, and has appeared as Co-Counsel in several high profile cases before the Caribbean Court of Justice (Belize’s final appellate Court).

Memberships:
Secretary, Belize Chamber of Commerce and Industry
Executive Committee Member, Bar Association of Belize
Director, St. John’s College
Member, Belize’s National Mediation Committee
Member, ICC FraudNet

Professional Recognition:
Who’s Who Legal: Asset Recovery 2014-2016
Who’s Who Legal: Central America (Dispute Resolution) 2016

Balderamos Arthurs LLP:
Balderamos Arthurs LLP is a full service law firm whose attorneys have distinguished themselves academically and continue to do so professionally. We pride ourselves on our ability to find innovative and practical solutions for our clients and we work tirelessly to vindicate our clients’ rights.

Our attorneys have extensive experience in many areas of the law and have been pioneers in the areas of Fraud and Asset Recovery, Patent and Trademarks, Estates and Succession and Family law in Belize.  Our attorneys are known for their competence in undertaking complex matters including multi-jurisdictional litigation and transactions.

Our attorneys have successfully assisted clients in litigation involving constitutional and public law challenges, fraud cases, banking and debt collection, contract disputes, tort litigation, liquidation and receivership litigation, land disputes, estate matters, divorce and matrimonial property cases, and intellectual law disputes.

We have an experienced and efficient staff and are therefore poised to deliver timely results to our clients.

Ciro Colombara is the founding partner of RCZ and co-head of the firm´s Litigation Department.

His expertise is in complex litigation, both in Chile and overseas. He has developed his career mainly in sophisticated disputes relating to Commercial law, Civil Law, Criminal Law and International Law, among other matters. This has led him to be recognized by ranking agencies such as Chambers & Partners and Best Lawyers. These publications have highlighted Colombara as one of the best litigators in Chile, thanks to the outstanding success that he has had in cases of national and international importance involving international recovery of assets. He has led teams of lawyers and legal departments, using his knowledge and experience in commercial, criminal and civil litigation, victims rights in criminal proceedings, creditors and cross-border insolvency.

In Chile, he has been described as “acute, skilful, influential and well connected, while his peers define him as one of the most successful criminals litigators of his generation, with a high rate of cases won. In large part to his strategic view, they say that he is capable of getting two or three steps ahead in each case, using intuition and business acumen “(Qué Pasa magazine)

Steven built up PCB Litigation to have a leading reputation, and for the last 2 years, Steven has been Head of the International Fraud Litigation Team at Asserson. He is a leading authority on the management of international commercial litigation and arbitration, and specialises in Civil Fraud and Asset Recovery matters.

Steven was Asset Recovery Lawyer of the Year by Who’s Who. Legal 500 has singled him out as being a leading individual in civil fraud and as being ‘aggressive for clients’ claims’, ‘unparalleled’, and a ‘great strategist and fighter’. Chambers selected him as a member of their Spotlight Table, stating that Steven is a world-class asset recovery practitioner.

Directories & Testimonials

Steven has been described as ‘always seeking to push the boundaries to maximise [his] client’s position – he thinks outside the box and ‘has a breadth and depth of experience, and extensive knowledge of the market’. Chambers have described him as a “brilliant thinker” according to market sources, who also commend him as having excellent instincts, being result orientated and a “visionary in terms of his command of tactics”. Steven has been listed by the London Times as one of the 100 Key Influential Legal Professionals in the UK.

Leadership & Associations

Steven was the Founder Member of Fraudnet and has been actively working with fellow members on a global basis has recently led a group in a successful Chinese case. Steven was Deputy Chairman of the UK Fraud Advisory Panel and has been recently appointed to its’ Advisory Committee. Steven also served in a number of important roles for the UK’s Commercial Fraud Lawyer’s Association and the Dubai International Financial Centre Courts.