Shreyas Jayasimha read law at the National Law School of India University and was a Chevening Scholar at the University of Warwick. He enrolled as an Advocate in 2000. Shreyas has conducted several complex trials, has appeared before several High Courts and the Supreme Court and international and domestic arbitral tribunals and mediation fora. He is also trained as a mediator and has been appointed arbitrator. Shreyas is a member of the LCIA Asia Pacific Users Council and is the one of the editors of the IBA mediation committee newsletter. Shreyas’ practice area includes litigation, dispute resolution, company law, constitutional law, intellectual property, and technology law amongst others across industrial sectors such as infrastructure, real estate, oil and gas, aviation etc. Shreyas is a member of the Foundation for International Arbitration Advocacy (FIAA), Geneva since 2012, and was recently made the Coordinator, UNCITRAL National Coordination Committee of India. Shreyas has been listed in the International Who’s Who of Commercial Arbitration since 2010 till date.

Matthias Kleinsasser is a Shareholder in Winstead PC, a full-service Dallas-based law firm with offices throughout Texas, as well as New York and North Carolina. Matthias is a member of the Firm’s Business Litigation, Restructuring & Insolvency, and White-Collar Defense Practice Groups. He regularly litigates in U.S. federal district court, U.S. bankruptcy court, and Texas state court.

Matthias has significant experience in the following areas of law:

Fraudulent transfer litigation: Matthias has litigated high-stakes fraudulent transfer litigation matters and regularly advises non-U.S. clients on asset recovery procedures under U.S. law, discovery applications under 28 U.S.C. § 1782, and similar matters.

Receivership proceedings: Matthias frequently represents clients in receivership proceedings filed by the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission, FDIC, CFTC, and other regulatory agencies. He has also served as a turnover receiver in Texas state court.

Cryptocurrency matters: Matthias has experience with litigation involving cryptocurrency and DeFi, including asset recovery matters.

Regulatory defense: Matthias has represented officers, directors, and other clients in investigations brought by the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission and other regulators.

Bankruptcy/restructuring matters: Matthias has represented clients in virtually all aspects of business bankruptcy proceedings, including bankruptcy litigation, contested asset sales and debtor-in-possession financing.

Pre-litigation planning/settlement advice: Matthias regularly counsels firm clients on contract negotiation, pre-litigation planning, and settlement advice.

Matthias is a contributor to the CDR Essential Intelligence publication on “Fraud, Asset Tracing & Recovery” and the ICC FraudNet Global Annual Report.

Jacques-Alexandre Genet is a French avocat à la Cour and a partner of Archipel in Paris. He specialises in international enforcement and asset recovery.

He and his team have a wealth of expertise in all aspects of enforcement against sovereign states, including a thorough practical understanding of the law of immunities in key jurisdictions and of international sanctions (including the UN, the EU and OFAC). They have advised international clients, including creditor hedge funds, corporations and individuals in the enforcement of awards and judgments across many civil and common law jurisdictions.

Archipel is also active in fraud cases, where it provides guidance to clients in post-fraud recovery situations and relies on its network of local counsel, advisers, consultants and asset tracers to ensure multi-jurisdictional, coordinated recovery of assets.

Recent cases include the enforcement of UK judgment and worldwide freezing orders against serial debtors, the devising and obtaining of unprecedented French civil search orders to locate worldwide assets of debtors, the enforcement of US judgments and of ICC, ICSID, OHADA and ad hoc awards against several African, Latin American, or Eastern European states or state-owned entities, and the resistance to enforcement measures sought by a foreign state, and a foreign market authority, against two individuals and their respective group of companies.

Jacques-Alexandre graduated in French and US/English business laws (University of Paris X Nanterre), and in economics and finance (Sciences Po); he is a former lecturer at the Sorbonne and a frequent speaker on international enforcement, asset tracing and recovery.

Archipel is a boutique law firm serving the cross-border needs of corporate and private clients. Its offices are in Paris and Geneva.

Kamala Naganand studied law at the University Law College, Bangalore and completed her Masters in Intellectual Property Law at The George Washington University Law School, Washington, D.C. She enrolled as an advocate in 2005.

Kamala has developed the insolvency and bankruptcy practice at Aarna law, along with her partner Shreyas Jayasimha. The team work out of New Delhi, Mumbai and Bangalore represent resolution professionals, banks, financial institutions, creditors, and individuals before courts across India. They have over the years built a strong litigation and advisory practice in Insolvency and have also been working with banks and financial institutions on asset tracing mandates across multiple jurisdictions.

She is a trained Mediator, has represented clients as counsel in commercial mediations, and is available to sit as a neutral through Simha Law, Singapore. She has also worked on case management for large and complex arbitrations and disputes.

Kamala is a member of International Council for Commercial Arbitration (ICCA) , International Technology Law Association and member, Bangalore Chamber of Commerce & Industry. She is actively involved in advising companies in Mergers and Acquisitions, Contracts and Documentation.

Her passion for Art has driven her to be active in the Art law space and build Aarna Law”s practice in the field.

As Managing Partner, she has started various initiatives to bring more women back into the workforce, including offering flexible work hours and integration of technology into the practice of law.

Christopher J. Redmond is the founder and principal at the Redmond Law Firm, LLC. His practice is focused on complex international litigation, asset tracing and recovery, and cross-border insolvency proceedings.

Christopher has been a delegate at UNCITRAL Working Group V (Insolvency) since 1999, first as a delegate for the American Bar Association and for the last eleven (11) years, as a member of the United States delegation. He continues to also serve as Chair of the ABA UNCITRAL Task Force.

Christopher has also served as a U.S. delegate to UNODC (United National Office of Drugs and Crimes), addressing issues of commercial fraud on a worldwide basis and coordination between the public and private sectors. As a U.S. member of ICC FraudNet, (ranked as a Band One International Group in Asset Recovery by Chambers), he is counsel in a number of international cases, including acting as counsel for the joint liquidators in the Stanford International Bank proceeding.

He is an experienced trial counsel in both jury and civil trials including a number of Chapter 15 proceedings. He has served as a joint liquidator in the Isle of Man and the Channel Islands. He has served as a Panel Trustee in Kansas since 1978 and has handled over 12,000 insolvency cases, from consumer cases to business cases. He has also served as a Chapter 11 Trustee in a number of business cases and served as counsel for the official unsecured creditors committee in a number of billion dollar insolvency cases.

Christopher is a Fellow of the American College of Bankruptcy, a Fellow of the International Insolvency Institute, has been listed in Best Lawyers for over thirty (30) years and is also recognized by Who’s Who Legal International as one of the top five (5) recovery lawyers in North America.

Guillermo Jorge is a partner at Bruchou, Fernandez Madero & Lombardi, a top-tier full service law firm in Argentina, where he leads the practice of Compliance, Internal Investigations & Business Crime.

Prior to joining Bruchou, Guillermo was the founding partner of Governance Latam in Argentina, a top compliance and investigations boutique. Guillermo has more than 20 years of experience representing victims of fraud and corruption and in preventing and enforcing anti-bribery and anti-money laundering standards. He has a unique experience in helping Governments to set up and train anti-bribery and anti-money laundering agencies across Latin America as well as in helping companies to establish and implement governance and compliance structures.

Guillermo has an extensive involvement in the field of asset recovery. He has served as an expert on several Working Groups at the United Nations and at the World Bank. In that capacity, he has written the Chapter on Asset Recovery of the “Technical Guide to the UNCAC” (https://http://www.unodc.org/documents/corruption/Technical_Guide_UNCAC.pdf) and the Handbook on Asset Recovery for the Asian Pacific Economic Cooperation (http://publications.apec.org/publication-detail.php?pub_id=1666). Guillermo has also conducted scoping missions for the Stolen Asset Recovery Initiative in Argentina, Peru and Paraguay, and collaborated with several of the initiative’s publications, including “The Asset Recovery Handbook”, “The Puppet Masters”, “On the take: Criminalizing Illicit Enrichment to Fight Corruption”, and “Identification and Quantification of the Proceeds of Bribery”.

Back in 2000, Guillermo was part of the legal team that helped the Peruvian Government to prosecute and extradite some associates of Alberto Fujimori from Argentina and that lead to the recovery of more than USD 170 million. Since then, he has been consulted by the Governments of Argentina, Brazil, Bolivia, Chile, Panama, Peru and Paraguay on several asset recovery related matters.

Guillermo has also an extensive academic involvement. He is Global Adjunct Professor of New York University (USA) and Senior researcher at the Center for Anticorruption Studies at San Andrés University (Argentina). In the field of asset recovery, Guillermo has authored Recuperación de Activos de la Corrupción, the first book on corruption asset recovery published in Spanish (Editores del Puerto, Buenos Aires, 2008) as well as several articles, including, among others, “The Peruvian Efforts to Recover Proceeds from Montesino´s Criminal Network of Corruption”, in Pieth, M. (ed.), Recovering Stolen Assets, Peter Lang, Bern, 2008, available at http://live.v1.udesa.edu.ar/files/uahumanidades/libros/2008jorge.pdf and “International Standards against Money Laundering” (ICC, the FraudNet Compendium, 2009).