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Jurgen van den Heuvel

Jurgen van den Heuvel is an associate in Florent’s Insolvency and Restructuring team and a part of the firm’s asset recovery and commercial fraud group. He is active in matters relating to international asset tracing and recovery and also advises and litigates in the area of insolvency law. He is also regularly appointed by the court as a bankruptcy trustee.

Michele Caratsch

Baldi & Caratsch is a Swiss litigation boutique with offices in Zurich. The firm has been involved in various major fraud disputes and supported other FraudNet members in transnational cases, including the freezing of assets concealed on Swiss bank accounts, assistance in international legal assistance matters and recovery proceedings, institution of local criminal proceedings in aid of a request for tracing concealed assets or a money laundering investigation, recognition of foreign bankruptcy proceedings and of foreign interlocutory measures in Switzerland.

Michele Caratsch holds a law degree of the University of Zurich and a Master of Laws (LL.M.) of New York University. He was admitted to the Zurich Bar in 1991 and to the New York Bar in 1995.

He heads the litigation team of B&C, and specialises in complex commercial litigation and arbitration, with a particular focus on fraud and asset recovery. Michele Caratsch represented clients in several court proceedings, coordinated transnational fraud recovery proceedings in various jurisdictions which involved asset tracing and obtainance of freezing orders in multiple jurisdictions and advised foreign state bodies in formulating requests for mutual assistance directed to Switzerland. He speaks German, Italian and English and is fluent in Spanish and Portuguese.

Laure Michelle

Laure Michelle is a litigator who has more than 20 years of experience in fraud and asset recovery. She focuses her practice on complex and unusual litigation which often requires creative solutions.

More specifically, Laure advises clients on international matters having connection with Monaco and France, including enforcement and interim measures. She deals also with other types of matters such as real estate, commercial and business law, bankruptcy, inheritance issues, maritime labour law, employment law.

As a member of the Paris bar admitted in March 1997, Laure practices in Paris for 10 years, and then she joined the office of Donald Manasse as a member of the Nice Bar admitted.

Laure is the leader of multi-jurisdictional litigation and disputes resolution of Donald Manasse Nice Office which is a partner of Donald Manasse Monaco office. She appears before the Monaco and French Courts.

Laure is graduated in Environmental Law from University Paris I Pantheon-Sorbonne and holds a Master in European and International Law and another one in Private and Judicial Law from the same university.

Miguel Cases

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.

Fabio Virzi

Fabio Virzi is a Partner of Cases & Lacambra in Spain. He is a member of the Litigation and Arbitration practice at the Firm’s Madrid office.

Fabio has extensive an experience advising all kind of clients in the resolution of civil and commercial disputes, both in the pre-litigation phase and during the proceedings..

He specializes in civil and commercial litigation before the Spanish Courts and has an extensive experience in matters relating to obligations and contracts, noncontractual liability, corporate affairs, unfair competition, directors’ liability, shareholders disputes, amongst others. Furthermore, Fabio has a strong track record in the enforcement of national and foreign judgments and awards, as well as in asset tracing and recovery.

Fabio is an expert on litigation relating to the finance, banking, construction, and insurance industries sectors, as well as to M&A transactions and private equity.

Fabio is also an expert in the field of domestic and international arbitration. He has taken part in domestic arbitration proceedings before the leading Spanish courts of arbitration (the Civil and Commercial Court of Arbitration and the Madrid Court of Arbitration, etc.), as well as in international arbitrations under the rules of the International Chamber of Commerce (ICC).