Henrique Forssell is a founding partner at Duarte Forssell Advogados (DFA), a Brazilian law firm specialized in complex litigation, international asset recovery and transnational insolvency. Located in São Paulo, it operates in more than 50 countries through an international network of legal professionals and has been successful in recovering millions of dollars its clients. DFA’s team is composed by skilled lawyers with more than 20 years of practice in complex and multijurisdictional transactions. In Brazil, Henrique has been appointed by several judicial authorities to lead and coordinate some of the most important international asset recovery procedures and is widely recognized for his expertise and efficiency.

The work developed by Henrique and DFA’s team of lawyers involves international asset recovery and investigation of transnational frauds; representation and providing legal counseling to financial institutions, foreign liquidators, judicial administrators and creditors related to the legal consequences of foreign insolvency proceedings; supporting parties in high complexity litigation and transactions across an extensive range of legal areas including corporate, civil, contractual, tax, administrative, real estate, mergers and acquisitions, corporate restructurings, dissolutions, etc.

Henrique has been a member of FraudNet since 2011 and is recognized as a Thought Leader, in the area of asset recovery, by the English guide Who”s Who Legal. He is also a member of INSOL (International Association of Restructuring, Insolvency & Bankruptcy Professionals).

Arthur Traballi is a Brazilian lawyer focused on complex litigation, national and international asset recovery as well as transnational insolvency. He advises financial institutions, trustees, and a variety of creditors in identifying and recovering assets diverted as a result of bankruptcy and capital market frauds in Brazil and abroad. Arthur is a member of the International Association of Young Lawyers (AIJA), founded in 1962 and based in Brussels, Belgium.

Kees van de Meent is managing partner at Florent in Amsterdam.

Kees van de Meent heads the firm”s asset recovery and commercial fraud group which represents victims of serious fraud, corruption and other economic crimes around the world. Having been a court-appointed trustee for more than 25 years he also advises on national and international insolvency matters and creditor rights. Van de Meent acts as court appointed trustee in international fraud-related bankruptcies.

Florent”s asset recovery and commercial fraud group is specialised in cases of cross-border asset recovery, fraud litigation (prosecuting civil claims for fraud), conducting financial fraud investigations in cooperation with forensic accountants and IT forensics, representing court-appointed trustees in fraud-related bankruptcies in order to recover stolen assets for the estate, representing (groups of) victims of boiler room frauds and anti-bribery cases. The team navigates complex legal issues such as private international law issues (regarding competent court, applicable law, recognition and enforcement) and multiple freeze actions, and works in close cooperation with colleagues in other jurisdictions to close the net on the fraudster.

Kees van de Meent is the Dutch representative of ICC”s FraudNet, the global network operating under the aegis of the International Chamber of Commerce. He is also a member of Insol International, Insol Europe and Insolad.

Kees van de Meent is frequently invited to lecture within the Netherlands and abroad on the topic of combatting commercial fraud and asset recovery and is a co-author of Asset Tracing & Recovery: The FraudNet World Compendium.

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.

John is managing partner and advocate in Carey Olsen”s litigation and dispute resolution group in Guernsey.

John undertakes the complete range of major litigation and advocacy work including asset tracing, multi-jurisdictional disputes and commercial and trust litigation. John has been Counsel in many of the major litigation cases before the Royal Court of Guernsey and the Guernsey Court of Appeal and is one of the few Guernsey advocates to have appeared as counsel in the Privy Council. He has been lead counsel in ground-breaking trust litigation cases in the past 12 months.

John was a founder member of the Guernsey Royal Court Working Party which completely reviewed the island”s Civil Procedure in 2008 and is a member of the UK Fraud Advisory Panel. He is a founder (and only Guernsey) member of Fraudnet. He is also a member of the Association of Contentious Trust and Probate Specialists and is a Notary Public. John was the first elected Head of the Guernsey Bar in November 2008 and was re-elected to the role in 2010. In 2014 John was awarded ACTAPS Offshore Contentious Lawyer of the Year Award. In 2015 he was awarded the “most highly regarded” classification for Asset Recovery by Who”s Who Legal – one of only five offshore lawyers in the world to be awarded such accreditation. Carey Olsen has been awarded Asset Recovery Law Firm of the Year in Guernsey for the past 2 years by Who”s Who Legal.