Michael Jason Lee began his legal career as a legal intern in the Office of Legal Counsel to the President (White House) during President Bill Clinton’s impeachment trial, followed by a judicial externship with the Honorable Ronald George, Chief Justice of the California Supreme Court. After being admitted to the State Bar of California in 2000 and completing his judicial externship, Michael founded the Law Offices of Michael Jason Lee, where he continues to work today.

Over the past 25 years, Michael has gained extensive experience handling a broad spectrum of complex civil litigation matters and, in the process, served as lead counsel or lead instructing counsel in cases spanning more than 25 states and 35 countries. Michael has also developed a specialized expertise in cryptocurrency, internet gambling/gaming law and high risk internet payment processing, and is regarded as one of the world’s foremost experts in asset recovery cases in these areas. More generally, Michael has successfully litigated many major multi-jurisdictional asset preservation, asset recovery and fraud cases for his clients, which have included individuals, governmental entities, regulatory bodies and large companies from around the world. Michael’s aggressive and innovative approach to litigation, dedicated focus to protecting his clients’ commercial interests and track record of outstanding results have earned him a reputation as a leading international fraud and asset recovery specialist.

Michael also has a longstanding commitment to serving the under serviced. Since becoming an attorney, Michael has worked more than 3,000 hours in either a pro bono or reduced fee capacity to provide legal services to individuals facing injustices or hardships that would otherwise not be able to afford them.

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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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.

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.

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.

Miguel Cases is the co-managing partner of Cases & Lacambra. He leads the Commercial & Corporate law and the Financial Services Group, including its Asset Recovery practice. He is qualified to practice both in Spain and the Principality of Andorra where he is the resident partner. He is recognized in major legal directories such as Chambers& Partners, Legal 500 and Best Lawyers as leader in his fields of practice.

He has extensive experience advising credit institutions and investment services firms, being the legal counsel of several national and international financial institutions, public administrations and investment funds in their regulatory activity, anti-money laundering policies, fraud prevention, banking agreements, and specially complex cross border disputes including asset recovery in Andorra where he has advised local and foreign regulators, financial institutions and governmental agencies in fraud and money laundering cases.

He is a regular lecturer in international business schools in his specialty areas and regularly publishes about regulatory framework applicable to the rendering of financial services.

Cases & Lacambra is a Client focused international law Firm, with a deep commitment to offer the best comprehensive advice in business law. The Firm, with presence in Europe and America, has a highly tested track record in complex transactions involving the financial sector, special situations, financial markets regulations, cross-border disputes, asset tracing and recovery and transactions with a relevant tax sensibility. Cases & Lacambra teams are high-profile, committed to excellence and cross-border oriented.