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.

Bobby Banson has been described as a very dynamic and result oriented legal practitioner. Having learnt his trade from well-established Practitioners from Bentsi Enchil,Lesta & Ankomah (Accra), Dadson & Associates (Kumasi) and Minkah-Premo & Co (Accra), he has gained experiences in wide areas of legal practice including Corporate, Investment, Real Estate and Dispute Resolution.

A product of Adisadel College, Mr. Banson furthered his education at the Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology (KNUST), Kumasi-Ghana for his LLB before proceeding to the Ghana School of Law in Accra-Ghana for his BL where he graduated as the best student in Law of Taxation.

He has attended courses at the Harvard University, as well as the Africa International Legal Awareness (AILA) Conferences. As a Fellow of the Chartered Institute of Arbitrators (FCIARB), Mr. Banson has spoken at various conferences organized by CIArb across the globe and AILA and participated extensively in SOAS conferences on Arbitration in Africa.

He is the Founding Partner of Robert Smith & Adelaide Law, which is a boutique law firm located in Central Business District of Accra, Ghana. He heads the firm’s practice areas focusing on Alternative Dispute Resolution, Investment Advice and Corporate Governance. He has acted as Counsel in both Domestic and International Arbitration matters.

He has provided legal services to several multinational Companies doing business across the West African sub region; particularly in the area of due diligence of prospective investment opportunities.He has several legal articles published in his name.

Rodrigo Callejas leads the Insolvency and asset recovery practice at the Guatemalan law firm Carrillo y Asociados. He joined the firm in 2000 and earned his law degrees and notary public certifications from Francisco Marroquín University in 2002. He holds additional qualifications from the Central America Business Institute (INCAE) and Georgetown University Law Center, and is a fellow of the International Association of Restructuring, Insolvency & Bankruptcy Professionals (INSOL International).

Through Mr Callejas” expertise and leadership, Carrillo y Asociados is spearheading the development of insolvency/asset recovery law practice in Central America.

Mr Callejas leads the firm”s team, working for the Custodian of Bancafe International Bank, incorporated in Barbados, with operations in Guatemala, in performing groundbreaking computer forensics and physical data recovery, to unravel a complex web of offshore non-regulated entities allegedly used to capture and launder money.

Mr Callejas is also lead multi-jurisdictional Latin American counsel for one of the largest international asset recovery/bank liquidations in history: the $4.2 billion Stanford International Bank (Antigua) Ponzi scheme.

Mr Callejas” experience includes coordinating and obtaining recognition and enforcement of foreign judgments, and recognition of cross-border insolvency processes before local, US, and European authorities.