Costas Stamatiou is well experienced in international fraud cases and injunctive relief including worldwide freezing orders and Norwich Pharmacal disclosure orders.

Costas is a partner at Elias Neocleous & Co. LLC. He graduated in law from the University of Wales, Cardiff in 2001 and obtained a Master’s degree in Legal Aspects of Marine Affairs from there in 2002 and a Master’s degree in European Legal Studies from Bristol University in 2003. He was admitted to the Cyprus Bar in 2004. Since 2010 he has been acting as a visiting lecturer in local universities. His main areas of practice are company and commercial law, admiralty law, white collar crime and associated litigation. Costas has extensive experience of international asset tracing and recovery and has been involved in many high profile fraud cases. Costas is a co-author of “Introduction to Cyprus Law” 3rd edition and the Cyprus chapters of “Encyclopaedia of International Commercial Litigation” published by Kluwer Law International, “Shipping & International trade Law” 2nd edition published by European Lawyer Reference and the forthcoming second edition of “ICC Fraudnet Word Compendium: Asset Tracing & Recovery”. Additionally, Costas regularly contributes articles in a number of leading legal publications including: “Cyprus aviation law: aircraft arrests, airline liquidations, air route traffic rights and injunctive relief” ICCLR 2013 24(4); “Dispute Resolution Multi-jurisdictional Guide” 2012/13 published by Practical Law Company (Thomson Reuters); “Supreme Court reconfirms hands-off approach to banking obligations” ILO, Oct 2012; “Minimizing risks of contempt of interim orders by financial institutions” ILO, Nov 2012; “Admiralty jurisdiction: ship arrest, cargo arrest and sale pendente lite” ILO, June 2012; “Cyprus: commercial fraud and tracing of assets” ICCLR 2011 22(9); “Supreme Court clarifies approach for enforcement of arbitration awards” ILO, August 2011; “Advance fee fraud: tracing and recovering assets through courts” ILO, Sept 2011; “Cyprus: Freezing orders, ship arrest warrants, anti-suit injunctions, disclosure orders and Norwich Pharmacal relief in aid of court or arbitration proceedings in Cyprus and overseas”, ICCLR 2010 21(2); and “Cyprus: Forum Non Conveniens in the European Era”, ICCLR 2005 16 (8).

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 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.

Madsen Law firm was founded by Finn Madsen, a member of the Swedish Bar Association and the International Bar Association. As a former partner in VINGE – Sweden”s leading law firm – Madsen possesses extensive experience of Swedish and international arbitration practice, both as counsel and arbitrator. Furthermore, he has been appointed as arbitrator and chairperson by the SCC Institute and the ICC.

Madsen is the author of a commentary on the Swedish Arbitration Act and SCC rules, which has been published in English, Mandarin and Swedish and is now in its fifth edition.

In 2011, Madsen was awarded an honorary doctorate by the University of Lund in recognition of his contribution to international arbitration law. He is a fellow at The Chartered Institute of Arbitrators and listed in a number of legal directories. Madsen Law firm has offices in Stockholm and Malmö, Sweden.

Finn Madsen has been a member of Fraudnet since 2010, and specializes in matters relating to asset tracing and recovery.

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).

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.