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.

Bruce Horowitz is a founding partner of PAZ HOROWITZ, former Managing Partner of the Firm and its former IP Section Director. He now concentrates on Anti-corruption, Anti-extortion and Compliance. PAZ HOROWITZ is a full-service firm for international and national corporate clients, providing internationally recognized services in Anti-corruption, Anti-Money-Laundering, Compliance, Corporate, M&A, Intellectual Property, Dispute Resolution, Employment Law, Public Contracts, Natural Resources, and Taxation. From the Firm’s first day in 1991, Bruce has provided FCPA and Anti-corruption advice to International and National clients.

Since 1990, Bruce has been helping client companies and individuals to understand the bribery, extortion and coercion situations that they are likely to face, and to navigate those situations successfully, ethically and safely. He, also, teaches and trains individuals from all sectors of society on these issues.

Bruce is the President of the International Chamber of Commerce’s Ecuador Commission on Integrity and Anti-corruption; an Invited Instructor at the International Anti-corruption Academy in Laxenburg, Austria, Arbitration Judge for the American and Quito Chambers of Commerce Arbitration Centers; Co-founder and President of the Center for the Study of Bribery, Extortion and Coercion Situations (CESSEC); The American Bar Association’s (ABA) Representative to Ecuador; Founder of the ABA Quito Chapter; and former Chair of the ABA Anti-corruption Committee. Bruce is the TRACE International Law Firms’ Partner for Ecuador; and is the only professional in Ecuador recommended for Anti-Corruption and Compliance work by the Latin American Corporate Counsel Association (LACCA).

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.