Alejandro Pignataro is the Founding Partner of Pignataro Abogados, where he leads the Asset Tracing & Recovery Practice. He obtained his LL.M. in American Law with a concentration in International Business Practice from Boston University in 2003, and his JD from the University of Costa Rica in 2000.

Alejandro has devoted over 20 years of professional practice to provide legal counsel to foreign corporations and investors in Costa Rica. His expertise is in Corporate Law. Furthermore, he frequently serves as local counsel to receiverships and private counsel in multi-jurisdictional fraud cases, directing the domestic legal proceedings, interfacing with the enforcement agencies involved, and attending to the administration of the Receivership Estate.

The Firm’s Fraud and Business work team is assisted by Associates with vast experience in litigation and arbitration in Costa Rica.

Mr. Pignataro is the Costa Rican representative for ICC FraudNet. He is fluent in English, Spanish and French.

PIGNATARO ABOGADOS was established in 2015 as a boutique corporate law firm committed to providing top-tier legal advice to select corporate and individual clients doing business in Costa Rica and the Caribbean Basin region. The firm brings together a group of leading corporate law practitioners and civil litigation experts with an insightful understanding of the local market and its legal challenges. Our practice focuses on this specific array of fields of expertise in order to guarantee highly technical, pertinent legal advice with a business perspective.

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).

The Firm has successfully litigated many major asset recovery, money laundering and fraud claims in the Commonwealth Caribbean. We have been successful in recovering millions of dollars in assets for our clients. Our team of lawyers is particularly skilled in addressing the multijurisdictional issues which arise in litigation as a result of the Asset Tracing and Recovery tools which we employ on behalf of our clients.

Peter D. Maynard, Counsel & Attorneys, is widely recognised for its expertise and efficiency. We devote our time not only to solving clients” problems but to anticipating and preventing them. We are well known for our ability to develop creative solutions based on an extensive knowledge of key industry sectors and legal practice.We not only seek to be an adviser, counsellor, and advocate for our clients, but also a team member dedicated to achieving mutual goals. Whether providing counsel to an individual or putting together an international corporate transaction, our attorneys have one overall goal: to get results for our clients by providing the best possible job in terms of quality work, timely service and sensitivity to cost.

Asset Tracing, Bankruptcy Law, Civil Litigation, Corporate Law, Intellectual Property Law/Trademark & Patents, Trusts.Fraud/Business Crime Profile: Peter D. Maynard Counsel and Attorneys advises corporations and individuals in connection financial institutions, fraud (public or private), money laundering, liquidations, receivers, and asset tracing and recovery, asset protection, and recovery of assets, which have resulted from fraudulent activities.

After returning to Morocco in 2005, Mehdi joined the family business and founded DLF Avocats, a boutique law firm specialized in international transactions (M&A, project financing, dispute resolution) with a focus on mining and energy, including renewables.

The DLF team is composed of 20 multilingual skilled lawyers, paralegals and support members whose main concern is flexibility and attention to the client’s need.

Mehdi has also held positions in several institutions, as a board member of the Belgian and Luxemburg Chamber of Commerce (CCBLM) from 2012 to 2022 as well as Vice President of the German Chamber of Commerce from 2013 to 2019 and is still a board member of the same chamber.

Mehdi is very active in the international and cross-border transactions with a strong presence in the Middle East and Africa. Thanks to this input, DLF is the privileged partner acting as local and regional counsel for several foreign law firms.

Jonathan Wild has extensive experience in obtaining interlocutory relief including freezing and disclosure orders and in relation to the appointment of Receivers to safeguard recoverable assets.

The Dispute Resolution Department is also experianeced in co-ordinating multijurisdictional applications and working with foreign Counsel in relation to the timing and structure of such multijurisdictional tracing claims.

Jonathan has also advised Court appointed Receivers and is experienced in applying to the Court in relation to the appointment of Receivers to investigate allegations of fraud and asset tracing. Jonathan currently represents a party involved in a major international telecoms dispute including allegations of fraud and a US$415 million injunction – the case involves multiple jurisdictions and an interlocutory matter has already been heard by the Privy Council Bitel v Kyrgyz Mobil & Ors. Jonathan also currently represents the Receivers in the case of LM Moore Investments v SV Company & Ors which concerns a US$100million dispute involving a major vodka and brandy global distributor.

Jonathan also advised the local Regulator, the Financial Supervision Commission, and represented them on a number of occasions, notably in connection with Financial Supervision Commission v Law Investments Limited & Ors regarding multiple forced liquidations further to an alleged US$250million fraud.

Jonathan is also experienced in advising both local and multinational companies in relation to internal fraud and crime and dealing with both the asset recovery implications and the regulatory implications. Of interest he is also acting for a party in a significant European Law case which has implications concerning the extent and application of European Law on the Island.

Callin Wild can trace its partnership roots back well over 100 years and employs in excess of 40 staff. It offers a full service practice on the Island focusing on fraud and asset recovery and commercial multijurisdictional disputes. It also has a strong corporate and commercial department which provides services to many local and international corporate clients.

Callin Wild offers both contentious and non contentious advice to trustees and beneficiaries. We operate in a jurisdiction which has sophisticated regulation affecting the provision of business services including modern Trust legislation which includes mandatory licensing for tho persons and companies offering trustee services.

Callin Wild also has considerable experience in working in larger teams in multinational disputes and is instructed in the many of the larger complex contentious disputes currently before the Isle of Man Courts.

Dispute Resolution – Regulatory Advisory.

Fletcher is a Partner in the Litigation Department at Callin Wild and advises clients on various aspects of commercial litigation including complex litigious matters, fraud and asset tracing, injunctive relief and both on Island and cross-border insolvency. Fletcher also has an interest in employment law and provides professional and efficient advice in respect of both contentious and non-contentious employment issues.

In addition to adversarial work Fletcher has experience in resolving claims through negotiation and mediation. In recognising that litigation can prove stressful and demanding, Fletcher provides a common-sense approach to resolving disputes in a professional yet approachable manner.

Legal 500 describe Fletcher as ‘tough and thorough’ and being one of Callin Wild’s litigation experts ‘who distills complex issues to simple key points’. Fletcher gained praise in Legal 500 for having a ‘depth of knowledge and pragmatic approach to dispute resolution make him a standout lawyer. Clients enjoy working with him and above all else he achieves results. You want Fletcher on your team.

Fletcher Craine is a Notary Public and Commissioner for Oaths.