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.

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.

Jason is an Associate Director at Setia Law LLC, a specialist high-stakes dispute resolution and crisis management team in Singapore. He is active in corporate and commercial disputes, with particular emphasis on cross-border fraud and asset recovery litigation.

Jason and his team at Setia Law LLC frequently act in relation to freezing injunctions and pre-action disclosure orders before the Singapore Courts, and have represented litigants in leading cases in Singapore involving cryptocurrency, high-frequency algorithmic trading, payments processing, and collective action. Notably, Jason acted for the successful claimant in B2C2 Ltd v Quoine Pte Ltd, a landmark Singapore judgment involving cryptocurrency trades executed autonomously by algorithmic trading software.

Jason has experience in a wide range of corporate and commercial disputes, including shareholder and contract disputes, and disputes in the banking, oil & gas, technology, property and construction industries. He has also advised clients in cross-border liquidations involving recovery in high-risk jurisdictions.