Thomas is a partner of KNOETZL and heads the firm’s White-Collar Crime Department. He focuses his practice on business crime matters, asset recovery and international litigation.

Expert in all areas of white-collar crime, Thomas has in-depth experience in representing corporate, governmental and high net worth individual clients through criminal proceedings and related civil cases, especially in aggressive pursuit of injured parties compensation for damages due to embezzlement, fraud and money laundering. Some of Thomas’s cases have been high in profile, requiring a sometimes-delicate handling of the press. Thomas also routinely acts as defense counsel and advises on major criminal investigations for individuals and international corporations, inter alia involving allegations of price-fixing, bribery, serious fraud or bankruptcy offences.

Thomas regularly publishes articles and academic works on subjects concerning corporate criminal liability, anti-trust offences and leniency programs.

He holds a degree of the University of Vienna (2010) and is a member of the Vienna Bar.

Alfredo Taullard jointly Co-heads the Dispute Resolution Department at Hughes & Hughes. He has vast hands-on practice in complex civil and commercial Litigation, International Commercial Arbitration, and is a specialist in procedural, commercial and mining law.

Alfredo has been recognised as leading lawyer in Uruguay for Dispute Resolution by the most relevant guides in the legal profession, Who’s Who Legal – Asset Recovery, The Legal 500 Latin America, and Chambers & Partners Latin America. He is also the Australian Honorary Consul in Uruguay for the Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade.

Alfredo holds a Doctorate in Law and Social Sciences from the Universidad de la República School of Law. He has authored several publications on Procedural Law, Transnational Litigation, Civil Proceedings, as well as several papers for National and International Congresses on his areas of expertise.

Hughes & Hughes

Founded in the 19th century, Hughes & Hughes is one of the oldest and most prestigious law firms in Uruguay. The firm has had considerable growth during recent years and has successfully encompassed the long-term expertise with a modern, sophisticated and practical approach of the business.

They have extensive experience assisting clients in bankruptcy proceedings, including financial institutions and brokers, and have developed an organised structure prepared to efficiently deal with complex asset recoveries, including those generated by business crime. They have strongly developed strategies for an effective search of assets to enable important recoveries. Their proven experience has led to an increase in demand for this service by leading companies from all over the world.

Stephen Baker is an English Barrister, Jersey Advocate and Senior Partner of specialist litigation and dispute resolution practice based in Jersey Channel Islands, Baker & Partners.

Having been called to the English Bar in 1989, Stephen is a highly-experienced Court room Advocate, specialising in complex criminal and regulatory law, as well as international commercial and trusts litigation.

Stephen is a specialist in conducting investigations into the flow of suspected corrupt payments made to politicians through Jersey and has been responsible for suspicious activity reports and investigations on behalf of both the Attorney General of Jersey and the Jersey Financial Services Commission.

He also has expertise in cases involving complex fraud and money laundering, particularly those with an international and political dimension. In the UK, Stephen has been instructed to prosecute by the Serious Fraud Office, the Inland Revenue, Her Majesty’s Customs and Excise, and the Department of Public Prosecutions Head Quarters.

Outside of Jersey and the UK, he has advised the United Nations on matters of confiscation and been instructed by a large non-European state to advise on meeting legislative standards set by the Financial Action Task Force. He is an appointed Crown Advocate and has regularly acted for foreign governments including the Federal Republic of Brazil, the Islamic Republic of Pakistan, and the Kenyan Anti-Corruption Commission.

Stephen regularly speaks on the topics of corruption and asset recovery to a global audience, and is frequently asked by the national media to comment on matters of international co-operation in compliance and confiscation.

Stephen is the Jersey representative of FraudNet and also sits on the board of the Jersey Institute of Law.

In 2017, Stephen gained international peer recognition for his work in asset recovery, having been appointed Senior Vice Chair of the International Bar Association’s Asset Recovery Subcommittee. Throughout his two-year appointment, Stephen will engage with IBA’s global membership and work with other IBA committees to contribute to the organisation’s conferences.

Baker & Partners

Baker & Partners is a specialist litigation and dispute resolution practice based in Jersey Channel Islands. The firm provides objective, clear and practical advice and has been at the forefront of some the Island’s most complex and high value litigation cases.

Since its inception in 2003, Baker & Partners has gained a global reputation for its expertise in its niche practice areas and regularly appears among other high ranking organisations in both the Legal 500 and Chambers & Partners directories.

Bettina Knoetzl has been a trial lawyer for 25 years, focusing on fraud and asset tracing, business crime, investor protection, liability claims and corporate disputes. She is one of the top litigators in the country, continuously ranked as a trial lawyer and as true asset-tracing specialist, recognized by the bench and bar, with superior knowledge of how to locate, freeze and recover misappropriated assets. Bettina has successfully defended corporate and executive clients in a huge range of business crime investigations, including fraud, corruption, mismanagement and insider trading allegations. She has a distinguished track record of winning for both companies and private clients in both discrete and high-profile public trials. At the start of 2016 Bettina carefully selected individuals and founded the eponymous firm KNOETZL, entirely focused on dispute resolution, business crime, investigations, asset recovery, compliance and crisis management.

Her achievements in asset-tracing and recovery have been recognized across the globe. In 2017 Who’s Who Legal called her “Lawyer of the Year” in Asset Tracing. She is a “Thought Leader” and ranked in the Top Tier by national and international directories such as Chambers or Trend for more than a decade. With her vast understanding and experience of cross-border work, she is a repeatedly, sought-after co-counsel by top-tier global law firms.

Bettina is the immediate past Co-Chair of the Litigation Committee of the International Bar Association, the President of the Advisory Board of Transparency International (Austrian Chapter), the exclusive Austrian representative of the ICC-FraudNet and Member of the Advisory Board of ZBP, the Career Center of the Vienna University of Economics and Business and teaches at the Lawyers’ Academy Litigation & DR skills. She is consistently ranked in the top tier by the leading international directories and is currently recognized as “Most Highly Regarded Individuals” in “Litigation”, “Asset Tracing” and “White Collar Crime”.

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.

The financial fraud, insolvency and asset recovery section is headed by Shankhnad Ghurburrun, a founding member, and provides assistance in fraud prevention and representation of victims in Mauritius and the Seychelles. The Chambers has its own in-house investigation and intelligence gathering team of professionals to provide a comprehensive service in the Mauritius Territory and in Seychelles. Its members also provide services in French speaking countries in Africa.

Sir Rabindrah Ghurburrun QC, GOSK founded Ghurburrun Chambers in 1958, which eventually grew to become Geroudis Ghurburrun Chambers. In 2009, the office set merged with the Chambers of Gavin Glover to become Geroudis Glover Ghurburrun, composed of 14 Barristers. The Chambers has a leading litigation and advisory practice in Mauritius. It is pioneering fraud and asset recovery development in Mauritius.

Geroudis is a boutique law Chambers with practice focused on 5 sectors of legal industry, namely financial fraud and asset recovery, insolvency, corporate and commercial law, intellectual property and competition/ anti-trust work. Its clients include both international and domestic companies and financial institutions. The law Chambers has more than 20 of the Forbes 100 companies as clients. Its strong practice includes commercial fraud prosecution, asset recovery, international litigation, creditor’s rights and bankruptcy. All barristers are registered at the Bar in Mauritius.