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).

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.

Lampert & Partner serves a broad range of national and international, public and private, corporate and also individual clients. Lampert & Partner represented in the past and acts now also on behalf of different national governments. Besides major civil and criminal proceedings, several high-profile cases of grand fraud and corruption are handled by the firm.

Founding partner Siegbert Lampert is the author of important publications in the fields of asset tracing, fraud and corruption, like e.g. FraudNet’s World Compendium on “Asset Tracing and Recovery”, Sweet & Maxwell’s “International Commercial Fraud” or the Getting the Deal Through publication on “Anti-Corruption Regulation”.

Lampert & Partner is in Liechtenstein terms a medium sized firm. Founder partner Siegbert Lampert, a Constitutional Court judge from 2005 until 2014, established the firm in 1996.

Lampert & Partner are active members in several important professional networks and organisations, like for example the IBA, STEP (Society of Trust and Estate Practitioners), EUROJURIS International, WORLD-LINK for Law and INSOL International.

Major fields of activity: Civil and commercial Litigation, White Collar Crime, MLAT Proceedings, International Judicial Assistance, Banking and Financial Services, Insurances, Trusts and Estate Planning.

Walkers has one of the largest commercial litigation and dispute resolution teams in the Cayman Islands. Colette and her colleagues can provide timely and expert assistance in connection with all aspects of civil litigation and insolvency and have considerable experience in connection with asset tracing, enforcement proceedings, commercial and corporate disputes and contentious banking and financial issues. Colette has been a partner at Walkers in the Cayman Islands since 2009. She practised as a barrister from chancery/commercial chambers in London for fifteen years before being admitted as an attorney in the Cayman Islands in 2005. Colette has extensive experience in high value and cross border commercial litigation, with a particular emphasis on disputes arising in connection with fraud, asset recovery, corporate governance, distressed investment vehicles and liquidations. Since 2009 Colette has been commended in the leading legal directories including Who”s Who Legal, Chambers Global and Legal 500. The strength of the Walkers asset recovery team is commended in the 2013 International Who”s Who of Asset Recovery Lawyers which noted that Colette “stands out as one of the most highly regarded individuals in the research. Recommended for her “pragmatic and solutions-oriented” approach, she earns “high praise” from her peers and clients”.

Established in 1964, Walkers is a leading International Financial Centre law firm, with a focus on corporate and international finance law. From our global network of eight offices, the firm offers a full range of legal services and delivers practical advice based on an in-depth knowledge of the legal, regulatory and commercial environment in the British Virgin Islands, Cayman Islands, Ireland and Jersey. Walkers has 54 partners and 365 staff worldwide.

Specialities: Commercial Litigation and Dispute Resolution, Compliance, Corporate, Crime, Employment, Finance (Asset Finance, Banking, Insurance Linked Securities, Regulatory, Restructuring and Structured Products and capital Markets), Insolvency and Corporate Recovery, Insurance, Investment Funds, Islamic Finance, Private Equity, Property , Taxation and Trusts.

Mahmood Awan is an Advocate of the Supreme Court of Pakistan and a leading asset recovery lawyer based in Islamabad, Pakistan.

Mahmood founded a boutique law firm specializing exclusively in civil fraud and private international law after receiving his LL.M in Banking and Finance at King”s College London in 2001. He has co-founded four law firms focusing primarily on white collar crimes, asset recovery and cybercrimes in Pakistan. He is currently the senior partner at Mahmood Awan & Partners in Islamabad and Awan Seerat Tirmizi in Lahore and Karachi, Pakistan.

Mahmood has extensive experience in enforcement of foreign judgments and has acted as primary Counsel for the liquidators of Bank of Credit and Commerce International in multi-jurisdictional legal proceedings to recover misappropriated funds. He has advised Stock Exchanges or investors on several cases of fraud by brokerage firms since 2001. He has advised the country’s largest E&P company among other clients including Pakistan LNG Terminals Limited.

Mahmood has been advising energy sector clients since 2002 and has represented Oil and Gas Development Company Limited as its primary Counsel in several highly complex litigated matters before all five High Courts in Pakistan. He acts as an arbitrator and has also advised and represented clients on matters before regulatory authorities.

Leading teams of lawyers in Islamabad, Lahore and Karachi, Mahmood is recognized for his expertise in design and delivery of efficient solutions to complex litigation in a jurisdiction popularly perceived as highly unpredictable in matters of scheduling trials and other proceedings.

Mahmood has appeared as an expert witness before Senate Standing Committee on Finance, advised the Board of Islamabad Stock Exchange, been a Securities and Exchange Commission of Pakistan nominee on the Governing Board of the then Lahore Stock Exchange and has worked extensively on prevention of fraud in capital market operations since 1995.