Hiroyuki Kanae focuses on commercial litigation matters, including domestic and cross-border litigations involving major Japanese and foreign companies. He also handles corporate law, including mergers and acquisitions, corporate reorganizations, labor and employment law (including dispute settlements).

He has been advising on the global asset recovery projects involving Japanese clients in USA, Asia and European countries. He has represented trustees in bankruptcy proceedings in Japan, in pursuing successful asset recovery in the United States. To qualify to represent a trustee in proceedings of this kind requires attorneys and the firm with which he is associated to be at the very top of the fraud and asset recovery litigation field.

In 2006, during the “Livedoor scandal”, Hiroyuki Kanae was invited to comment on a CNBC Asia international television broadcast. The scandal concerned allegations that the president and senior executives of Japanese internet company Livedoor were involved in a shares and accounting scam. The fact that CNBC Asia picked him to comment on the issue is testament to his expertise and reputation in commercial fraud issues.

As regards his law firm, Anderson Mori & Tomotsune is one of the largest and most reputable law firms in Japan. The firm has five hundred lawyers and is known as one of the “Big 4” law firms in Japan and the firm is capable of collecting the multi-disciplinary teams consisting of litigators, accountants, and attorneys with the experience of public prosecutors.

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 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 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 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/

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.

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https://primerio.international/our-people/michael-james-currie/