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.

Skjørshammer is one of Norway”s leading experts within restructuring and insolvency. Skjørshammer acts for domestic and international clients in financial restructurings, debt negotiations and bankruptcies, and he advises creditors, shareholders, investors and board of directors on all aspects of insolvency law. His practice further includes advising Norwegian and international banks in the handling of deferred loans.

Skjørshammer has been involved both as an adviser and publicly appointed as chairman of debt negotiations committees and as bankruptcy trustee in many of the largest and most complex cases in Norway during the recent years. He is recognised for his strong commitment and solution-oriented advice, and is highly acknowledged for his project management skills in complex projects where commercial understanding and industry insight is a prerequisite.

Being Norway”s exclusive representative of ICC FraudNet, an organisation specialised in asset-recovery with representatives in more than 80 countries, Skjørshammer has considerable experience in representing Norwegian clients in matters involving other jurisdictions. His practice encompasses both matters relating to the selection of local partners and project management.

The international rating agencies Chambers Europe and Legal 500 ranks Skjørshammer as one of the leading restructuring and insolvency lawyers in Norway. Skjørshammer is a strong communicator and widely used as a lecturer on issues related to restructurings and the handling of financial challenges, both for fellow lawyers and law students.

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.

Geroudis is a boutique law Chambers with practice focused on 3 sectors of legal industry, namely financial fraud and asset recovery, corporate and commercial law, and Africa investments via Mauritius using its DTA system. It has recently restructured to shift its focus to Africa investments from Europe and North America, focussing on Mining, distributorships, Government contracts and green investments into Africa and all related dispute resolution and public relations.

Shankhnad Ghurburrun is the Chairperson of the firm. He has built his professional expertise in Asset Recovery, corporate strategy, and M&A actions mainly in Africa. He is presently responsible for a Acquisitions in Canada for a special project for the firm the next 7 years.

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”.

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.