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.

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.

Yves Klein is a founding partner of Monfrini Bitton Klein, a conflict-free litigation boutique based in Geneva, successor of the firm founded in 1978 by Enrico Monfrini. The firm focuses on asset recovery, business crime defense, anti-corruption investigations and offshore litigation.

He develops strategies for searching and recovering assets internationally, and coordinates cross-border proceedings. He represents his clients, be they states, liquidators of foreign insolvencies, corporations or individuals, before civil, criminal and bankruptcy courts, to recover the proceeds of crimes and to obtain damages from perpetrators and facilitators.

Together with his partner Enrico Monfrini, Yves Klein has conducted the groundbreaking corruption recovery proceedings in the Nigeria vs. Abacha case, where more than US$ 2 billion has been recovered in ten jurisdictions since 1999. For the past 20 years, he also has been retained as Swiss counsel in several other corruption recovery cases, notably Brazil v Dos Santos Netto, Haiti v Duvalier, Tunisia v Ben Ali and Guinea v Steinmetz.

He also represents liquidators of foreign insolvencies, especially banks and publicly traded companies, and has recovered tens of millions of dollars for their depositors, investors and creditors, prominently in the context of Ponzi schemes. Notable among these types of clients, he represents the bank insolvencies in Switzerland of Stanford International Bank Ltd (Antigua), Banco Santos SA (Brazil) and Banco Turco Romana SA (Romania).

Yves Klein also applies his asset recovery skills in the enforcement of foreign judgments and arbitration awards. He has obtained the recognition of such foreign decisions for amounts in excess of US$ 100 million and has successfully recovered the assets that defendants concealed in Switzerland or abroad.

He has been recognized by Who’s Who Legal as one of the world’s “most highly regarded individuals” in asset recovery since 2013 and is ranked by Chambers Europe.

As Chair of the International Bar Association’s Asset Recovery Subcommittee (Anti-Corruption Committee), Yves Klein has established relationships with the World Bank, the OECD’s Working Group on Bribery, and anti-corruption law enforcement officials to develop best practices for the coordination of the use of civil asset recovery proceedings with criminal proceedings.

He has published about tracing and recovery of assets, particularly in cases of corruption, since 1996 and regularly speaks at international conferences on these matters.

Edouard Kaiflin is an associate at Monfrini Bitton Klein. He represents clients in both criminal and civil proceedings, with a particular focus on asset recovery.

David M. Mizrachi is the senior partner of MDU Legal in the Republic of Panama. He is a United States trained attorney (BA with Departmental Honors, University of Pennsylvania; JD cum laude, Tulane Law School), who is admitted to practice law in Panama and the State of Florida (State and Federal Courts).

A substantial part of David’s international practice is devoted to asset tracing and recovery. He assisted a foreign court appointed receiver in recovering Panama based assets procured through a Ponzi scheme and has served notice of proceedings and procured evidence on behalf of foreign government agencies in cases related to investment and securities fraud. David’s legal actions allowed a foreign investor to recover monies paid into a Panama based boiler room securities operation. He also facilitated the recovery of a Panama registered vessel given as a guarantee to a failed Caribbean bank. His firm has recently obtained several ex parte asset freeze orders from Panamanian courts and recently obtained an ex parte court order which required a Panamanian Corporation to disclose its beneficial owners. His firm also obtained an ex parte suspension order which halted direct and indirect trading of the stock of a company and the exercise of any voting rights related to its shares pending an action to determine the ownership of part of that company’s shares. Recently his firm obtained an ex parte judicial order suspending the effects of the registration of the minutes of a corporation which had purportedly changed its board of directors without shareholder consent. He routinely assists foreign firms and governmental agencies with their legal needs in Panama and coordinates multinational litigation efforts on behalf of his local clients.

Mr. Mizrachi has served in court or as a private expert on Panamanian law in cases pending in New York, Florida, Indiana, Washington State, Bermuda, Israel and the United Kingdom. He has recently spoken on asset tracing and recovery matters in London, Geneva, Washington, Costa Rica, Miami and Fort Lauderdale. His firm is the Panamanian member of International Law Firms, ICC FraudNet and Trace International. David is the author of the Panama Section of the FraudNet Compendium on Asset Tracing and Recovery (Eric Schmidt Verlag, 2010). He is a certified translator (Spanish/English/Spanish). He enjoys reading about enology, history and biblical archaeology.

Danny is the Managing Director of Setia Law LLC, a specialist high-stakes dispute resolution and crisis management team in Singapore. Danny specialises in a broad range of corporate and commercial dispute work, with particular emphasis on complex cross-border fraud and asset recovery, contentious insolvency, banking and securities, corporate and commercial (including shareholder) disputes. He has been recognized in his areas of expertise by The Legal 500 (Asia-Pacific) Series, The International Who’s Who Legal, The International Financial Law Review 1000, and Asialaw Profiles, The Guide to Asia-Pacific’s Leading Law Firms.

In the area of fraud and asset recovery, Danny has advised and represented various stated-owned companies, governmental agencies, and international financial institutions, in the investigation and prosecution of claims involving complex multi-jurisdictional corporate and commercial fraud, bribery, corruption, breaches of fiduciary duties, enforcement of foreign judgments, and the recovery and tracing of assets globally. With his in-depth ‘on-the-ground’ knowledge and deep experience in this specialist area and also in Asia, Danny has been at the forefront of some of the largest cross-border fraud and asset recovery cases seen in the region.