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.

Arnoldo (Arnie) Lacayo, a shareholder at Sequor Law, has practiced law for 19 years. He has an active practice representing clients in cross-border insolvency, international litigation, financial fraud, and asset recovery matters. He has experience litigating complex disputes in state and federal district courts, including bankruptcy court, and has represented multi-national corporations, sovereign governments, Receivers, Trustees and other foreign officeholders in matters pending in U.S. Courts. Lacayo regularly supervises transnational investigations and has instructed counsel in dozens of jurisdictions. He also has extensive experience working with the versatile 28 U.S.C. § 1782 discovery statute and Chapter 15 of the U.S. Bankruptcy Code. Lacayo is Florida Bar Board Certified for International Litigation and Arbitration

A sought-after thought leader, Lacayo is regularly invited to speak at conferences and seminars. Lacayo is recognized by Super Lawyers, Latinvex, WWL and Chambers & Partners amongst others. He is an active member of distinguished organizations including The Florida Bar’s International Law Section, where he recently served as Chair of the Section. Mr. Lacayo is also a member AIJA where he serves as President of the Litigation Commission. Lacayo is a native Spanish speaker and is admitted to all Florida state courts, the Eleventh Circuit Court of Appeals, the District courts for the Southern and Middle Districts of Florida and the United States Bankruptcy Court for the Southern District of Florida.

Mario Brando is a partner of Bora Legal, in Venezuela. The law firm founded in 1979 by his father, focuses its practice in dispute resolution through alternative methods or civil and commercial litigation, including asset recovery and insolvency process. The firm also provides legal counsel to private corporations and investors, especially in the financial and real estate area.

The firm originally called Brando & Asociados merged in 2023 with Rodriguez Ochoa & Asociados, and specializes in international private law and international litigation.

Mario, with a team of 9 lawyers, investigators and forensic accountants, leads the insolvency and asset recovery practice at Bora Legal. He joined the firm in 2004 when he earned his law degree from Universidad Católica Andrés Bello in Caracas, Venezuela. He has a special degree in commercial law, constitutional justice and alternative dispute resolution methods. He is also a professor in Alternative Dispute Resolution at the Universidad Católica Andrés Bello and Universidad Monteávila. 

Mario has been working with Carrillo & Asociados, in Guatemala to recover assets in Venezuela for the Stanford International Bank liquidation in Antigua, one of the largest international asset recovery/bank liquidations in history. He has been also working academically as an advisor writing laws projects in Venezuela for anticorruption and asset recovery.

Mr. Brando is the Venezuelan representative for ICC FraudNet, the world’s leading asset recovery legal network.

Emmanuel specialises in white-collar crime, and has more than 25 years of experience in this field. He defends both legal and natural persons, acting for both defendants and claimants in the framework of criminal investigations or before the criminal courts. He advises clients on criminal risks, compliance and criminal procedure, and in negotiations with prosecutors.

Emmanuel has been appointed the Belgian representative for FraudNet, the worldwide network for lawyers established with the International Chamber of Commerce, leading the defence of victims of fraud across the globe (ICC – Commercial Crimes Services; http://www.icc-fraudnet.org).

He regularly publishes articles in the field. Of particular note among his numerous publications is his book “Criminal Business Law” («Droit pénal des affaires»), co-written with Jean Spreutels (President of the Belgian Constitutional Court) and François Roggen (magistrate at the Belgian Court of Cassation).

Throughout the years, Emmanuel has won plaudits from leading independent legal directories for the quality of his legal expertise, as well as his ability to combine rigorous analysis and pragmatism. He is consistently ranked since years as one of the leading white collar specialists in Belgium by Legal 500, Chambers (Europe), World’s Leading White Collar Crime Lawyers (Expert Guides series), the International Who’s Who of Business Crime Defence Lawyers, and The International Who’s Who of Asset Recovery Lawyers.