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.

Nada Abdelsater‐Abusamra is an international lawyer admitted to the Courts of New York and Beirut and in the Hague (Netherlands) where she acts as the legal representative of victims at the Special Tribunal for Lebanon looking into the assassination of Lebanese Prime Minister Rafic Hariri.

She is the founding partner of ASAS Law, a Lebanese law firm with activities across the Middle East and extending to Europe, USA and commonwealth countries. She has a strong practice in international cross border transactions, litigation, and arbitration including notably white‐collar crimes, as well as complex commercial litigation, confiscation, freezing orders and cross border enforcement of judgements and arbitral awards.

Her clients includes high profile individuals and multinationals. She leads multi‐ faceted investigation processes and asset recovery proceedings across several jurisdictions according to rigorous and high professional standards.

She advises clients on tracing and seizing or freezing funds and assets located in Lebanon or deposited in Lebanese Bank Accounts. She acts for clients in liberating funds that were unduly frozen by international or national regulatory authorities. She is distinctly respected by high ranked regulators (notably in the banking sector) who solicit her insight on legal matters.

As part of her practice, she handles complex transactions including financial engineering, M&A, oil and gas, PPP, corporate and financial transactions and corporate governance restructuring.

She was named more than once as “Leading Lawyer” by reputed international guides. She earned international recognition for her work in corporate governance and ethics. She is the recipient of the Corporate Governance Rising Star Award, 2009, Yale University (School of Management, the Millstein Center) and has received other medals and decorations.

She holds a Masters in Law from Harvard Law School (LL.M 1999), a Lebanese and French Master Law degree from University Saint Joseph in Beirut (1998), a Bachelor of Science from the American University of Beirut (1994) and has completed the M.A coursework in International Affairs at the Lebanese American University (1994). Me. Abdelsater‐Abusamra taught law and corporate governance at the American University of Beirut, Business School.

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.