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.

Siegbert Lampert 360x360

Siegbert Lampert

Lampert & Partner serves a broad range of national and international, public and private, corporate and also individual clients. Lampert & Partner represented in the past and acts now also on behalf of different national governments. Besides major civil and criminal proceedings, several high-profile cases of grand fraud and corruption are handled by the firm.

Founding partner Siegbert Lampert is the author of important publications in the fields of asset tracing, fraud and corruption, like e.g. FraudNet’s World Compendium on “Asset Tracing and Recovery”, Sweet & Maxwell’s “International Commercial Fraud” or the Getting the Deal Through publication on “Anti-Corruption Regulation”.

Lampert & Partner is in Liechtenstein terms a medium sized firm. Founder partner Siegbert Lampert, a Constitutional Court judge from 2005 until 2014, established the firm in 1996.

Lampert & Partner are active members in several important professional networks and organisations, like for example the IBA, STEP (Society of Trust and Estate Practitioners), EUROJURIS International, WORLD-LINK for Law and INSOL International.

Major fields of activity: Civil and commercial Litigation, White Collar Crime, MLAT Proceedings, International Judicial Assistance, Banking and Financial Services, Insurances, Trusts and Estate Planning.

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.

Martin Kenney

Martin Kenney is one of the world’s leading asset recovery lawyers, specialising in multi-jurisdictional economic crime and international serious fraud. He has acted for international banks, insurance companies, individual investors, and other private and governmental institutions.

Based in the British Virgin Islands (BVI), Martin is founder and Head of Firm at MKS Law (previously Martin Kenney & Co). The firm’s work lies at the intersection of cross-border insolvency, creditors’ rights and complex commercial litigation: WIRED styled the firm as among “the world’s sharpest fraudbusters”.

Leading a team of lawyers, investigators and forensic accountants, Martin is widely regarded as a ground-breaker in the use of pre-emptive remedies, multi-disciplinary teams and professional litigation funding in response to global economic crime, uprooting bank secrets and freezing hidden assets in multiple jurisdictions.

He is a practicing solicitor advocate of the senior courts of England and Wales, the Eastern Caribbean at the BVI, at St Vincent and the Grenadines, and a licensed foreign legal consultant in the state of New York.

Martin is also a Visiting Professor at the University of Central Lancashire (UCLan) School of Law and Policing in the UK, and ranked among the world’s leading asset recovery lawyers by Chambers and Partners, as well as being a Lexology Index “Global Elite” Thought Leader.

David Jones

David is an advocate and head of the restructuring and insolvency team in Guernsey. He advises on complex restructurings and formal insolvencies in contentious, non-contentious and multi-jurisdictional matters.

In his time with Carey Olsen David has been involved in many of the largest insolvencies involving Guernsey entities and global retailers. He is able to assist lenders in respect of the taking and enforcement of all forms of security. David regularly advises the boards of distressed entities and has extensive experience acting for office holders on all aspects of their appointments including the tracing and recovery of assets.

David is a member of the Insolvency Lawyers Association and R3 and sits on the young members Committee of INSOL International. David lectures on INSOL’s Foundation Certificate in International Insolvency and is part of the working group tasked with updating and revising Guernsey’s insolvency laws. He has also been appointed as a member of Guernsey’s first ever Insolvency Rules Committee (IRC). David is listed in the Lexology Index for Restructuring & Insolvency, Asset Recovery and as a Thought Leader. He is also ranked in Chambers Global and The Legal 500 2025 editions. Clients say that David is “the best person in Guernsey for insolvency and restructuring work” and “He is a thought-leader in the industry, he’s a very good advocate and comes up with innovative solutions to issues.”

Patricia-Ann T. Prodigalidad

Ms. Prodigalidad is the Managing Partner of ACCRALAW. She specializes in commercial litigation, white collar crime, intra-corporate disputes, banking, investments and securities litigation, anti-money laundering, corporate rehabilitation and insolvency, international commercial and construction arbitration, and intellectual property and antitrust litigation. She represents multinational financial institutions and their officers in suits involving complex commercial agreements and transactions (including foreign exchange transactions, financial derivatives, collateralized debt obligations, and other securities/financial instruments) as well as before regulatory investigations. Leveraging on her science background, Ms. Prodigalidad also represents clients in environmental litigation. She has likewise assisted clients in various congressional inquiries.

She has handled (and/or is handling) significant cases and transactions including the following where she:

● led the team of lawyers that worked towards the approval of the rehabilitation plan of one of the oldest life insurance companies in the Philippines;
● assisted the country’s largest power distribution company in environmental litigation commenced by detractors of its substations and sub-transmission lines;
● headed the team that negotiated and drafted the various contracts (including the Particular Conditions of the FIDIC EPC Contract) relating to Stage 2 of the Skyway Project;
● acted on behalf of the world’s largest real estate data company based out of the United States and led the team of lawyers that obtained and implemented civil search and seizure writs premised on large scale copyright infringement perpetrated by a Philippine BPO for its American principal;
● supervised the team of lawyers that successfully represented a Swiss multinational healthcare company in a patent infringement and injunction suit against the Korean manufacturer of a biosimilar;
● led the team of lawyers that successfully represented the country’s leading motorcycle manufacturer in an ad hoc arbitration involving its cargo forwarder and distributor;
● leads the team of lawyers representing one of the major IOCs in a landmark environmental litigation relating to global warming before the Philippine Commission Human Rights;
● assisted a French multinational pharmaceutical company in a senate inquiry relating to one of its biological products and continues to represent it in product liability suits; and
● assists the second largest universal domestic bank in the Philippines in the rehabilitation of the Philippine subsidiary of a South Korean-based shipbuilding and shipyard company.

Ms. Prodigalidad also acts as an arbitrator in international commercial and domestic arbitration, both institutional and ad hoc, as well as in Philippine construction arbitration. She is an accredited arbitrator of the Construction Industry Arbitration Commission (CIAC), the Philippine Dispute Resolution Center, Inc. (PDRCI) where she currently serves as Trustee and Corporate Secretary and the Philippine Office of ADR (OADR). On the international front, she is a part of the arbitrator panels of the Singapore International Arbitration Centre (SIAC) and the International Centre for Dispute Resolution of the American Arbitration Association. She has acted as a co-arbitrator as well as chairperson in various commercial and construction arbitrations and has penned the first emergency arbitrator decision in the Philippines in a dispute involving the pre-termination of a port services agreement.

Ms. Prodigalidad has authored a number of legal articles, including:

● “An Arbitrator’s `Expert, Yet Secret Knowledge’: Friend or Foe? (Lessons Learned From The Bankard Saga” [12(1) Asian International Arbitration Journal 1-20 (2016)];
● “Recognition and Enforcement of Foreign Arbitral Awards in the Philippines: Challenges after the 2009 Special ADR Rules” [6(2) Asian International Arbitration Journal 101-133 (2010)]; and,
● “Assimilating DNA Testing into the Philippine Criminal Justice System: Exorcising the Ghost of the Innocent Convict” [79 PHIL. L.J. 930 (2005)].

She also co-authored the Philippine chapters of:

● “International Arbitration” [Chambers Global Practice Guide, Chambers and Partners (2019)];
● “The Private Competition Enforcement Review” [Ilene Knable Gotts (Ed.), Law Business Research, pp. 189-314 (2019)];
● “ASEAN Product Liability and Consumer Product Safety Law” [Profs. Luke Nottage and Sakda Thanitcul (Eds.), pp. 151-195 (2016)]; and,
● “ARBITRATION IN THE PHILIPPINES”, [published in “INTERNATIONAL COMMERCIAL ARBITRATION IN ASIA”, Ali, Shahla F. and T.B. Ginsburg (Eds.), Juris Publishing Inc. (U.S.A., 2013)].
● “International Arbitration” [Chambers Global Practice Guide, Chambers and Partners (2020)];

Ms. Prodigalidad has likewise delivered various papers and/or spoke in various local seminars and international conferences on a vast array of topics on commercial litigation and ADR, such as:

● “Arbitration and Adjudication: Complimentary ADR Mechanisms”, sponsored by the Integrated Bar of the Philippines, Cebu City Chapter in November 2018;
● “Fraud: The Pervasive (and Possibly Devastating) Menace”, delivered at the 78th Annual Convention of The Institute of Internal Auditors of the Philippines (IIAP) in October 2018;
● “Tackling Fraud, Bribery & Corruption In South East Asia – The Road Ahead”, sponsored by the International Chamber of Commerce FraudNet held in Bangkok, Thailand in 2014;
● “Insolvency of Natural Persons” at the 9th Forum on Asian Insolvency Reform co-sponsored by the Bangko Sentral ng Pilipinas (BSP), United Nations Commission on International Trade Law (UNCITRAL), INSOL International and The World Bank from 3 to 5 December 2013 at the Philippine International Convention Center (PICC); and,
● “The Use of DABs in South East Asia” in the 5th FIDIC Asia-Pacific Contract Users’ Conference held on 12 June 2013 in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia.

Ms. Prodigalidad is an accredited Mandatory Continuing Legal Education lecturer and is a professorial lecturer in the University of the Philippines College of Law. In 2005, she taught Special Problems in Commercial Law and is currently teaching Civil Procedure.

Ms. Prodigalidad has also assisted in the drafting of the Implementing Rules and Regulations of the Philippine ADR Act of 2004 and the Supreme Court Rule on DNA Evidence. She has served as a member of the ADR Committee of the Philippine Bar Association and is a continuing Philippine delegate to the ADR Standing Committee of the ASEAN Law Association. She has recently been elected as a trustee of the ASEAN Law Institute.

Ms. Prodigalidad is currently a trustee of various institutions such as the UP Women Lawyers’ Circle, the Harvard Law School Alumni Association Inc. and the Philippine Institute of Construction Arbitrators and Mediators. She likewise held various positions in the Integrated Bar of the Philippines, where she served as Assistant National Secretary from 2011 to 2015 and National Secretary from 2015 to the present.

She is the Philippine delegate of FRAUDNET, a network under the auspices of the International Chamber of Commerce-Commercial Crime Services that specializes in globalized fraud litigation and asset recovery. She also served as a volunteer lawyer of the Child Justice League, a non-profit and nongovernmental organization committed to protecting the rights of, and obtaining justice for, all abused and neglected children.

In 2013, Ms. Prodigalidad passed the Fédération Internationale Des Ingénieurs-Conseils (FIDIC) Dispute Board Adjudicator Assessment Workshop sponsored by FIDIC and the Japanese International Cooperation Agency and is one of four (4) Philippine delegates accredited as a dispute board adjudicator.

From 2017 to 2019, Ms. Prodigalidad was awarded as “Commended External Counsel of the Year” by Asian-Mena Counsel. She has also been consistently recognized as one of the Leading Lawyers in the field of Dispute Resolution & Litigation by Asia Law Profiles, Chambers Asia-Pacific, Chambers & Partners and The Legal 500. She was cited as a “very bright and very active” commercial litigator, praised for her “imaginative and creative” arguments, further commended for her strategic approach that considers client’s business needs and described as “good in terms of strategy” and great in handling complex litigation involving cross-border issues. Since 2012 to the present, Ms. Prodigalidad has also been cited as among the key practitioners and experts in the field of Asset Recovery by Who’s Who Legal 100.

Ms. Prodigalidad was recognized by Asialaw Profiles as a Distinguished Practitioner in the practice area of dispute resolution in 2019.

She was regarded as a “Leading Lawyer,” and was recommended for the practice area of Dispute Resolution in the Asia Pacific Legal 500 for 2020.

In 2019, Ms. Prodigalidad was also one of the distinguished recipients of the “The Outstanding Women in the Nation’s Service (TOWNS)” award for her outstanding contributions to the field of law.

Ms. Prodigalidad was recognized by the Asia Business Law Journal as among the Philippines’ Top 100 Lawyers in 2021.

Ms. Prodigalidad ranked first among the successful examinees of the 1996 Bar Examinations and was admitted to the Philippine Bar in 1997.

She is a member of the Makati Chapter of the Integrated Bar of the Philippines, the Philippine Bar Association, the International Council for Commercial Arbitration, and the University of the Philippines Women Lawyers’ Circle.