Edouard Kaiflin

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

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 Ong

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 Teo

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.

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Taher Abdeen Ibrahim

Taher is a Partner in the Dispute Resolution team at Hadef & Partners. He specialises in civil, real estate, criminal and commercial matters and primarily engages in corporate enforcement work. Taher has extensive experience in commercial transactions linked to criminal matters as well as complexed matters related to breach of trust, bribery, fraud and money laundering. Taher holds full rights to appear before the public prosecution services. “I am honoured to be a member of ICC FraudNet Future and have already found immerse value in being part of the network.”

Edward H. Davis

Edward H. Davis, Jr. has practiced law for over 35 years and is a founding shareholder of the Miami international law firm, Astigarraga Davis. As a Certified Fraud Examiner, he heads the firm”s Asset Recovery and Financial Fraud group representing victims of fraud and grand corruption including governments, governmental entities, corporations, hedge fund, insolvency practitioners and individuals by investigating and prosecuting civil fraud and asset recovery actions. He has consulted with the World Bank on three corruption asset recovery books and contributed a chapter to the Asset Recovery Handbook published by the International Centre for Asset Recovery in Basel, Switzerland. He is past Chair of the Florida Bar International Law Section and a member of the anti-corruption and international litigation committees of the International Law Section of the ABA. He serves as inaugural chair of the Asset Recovery Sub-Committee of the Anti-Corruption Committee of the IBA; and is a leading original member of the London-based ICC Commercial Crimes Services FraudNet Network. Mr. Davis sits on advisory boards of Offshore Alert and Global Investigations Review magazine. In 2013 Ed was recognized as the first Asset Recovery Lawyer of the Year by Who’s Who Legal. He has won that award again in 2014 and 2015.