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.

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.

Emanuel is an Attorney and a Certified Fraud Examiner based in Guatemala. His practice focuses on main aspects of Fraud and Asset Recovery, contributing with investigations and strategy in Litigation support and ADR. He is currently a member of the Firm’s Bankruptcy, Insolvency Fraud & Asset Recovery practice group.

His experience includes the preparation of evidence with forensic experts, including financial, accounting and e-discovery/social media analysis. He has also coordinated the processing of international legal assistance requests, taking of witness statements, and implementation of strategies for the enforcement and recognition of foreign judgments.

With experience and in coordination with legal counsel in USA, Central America, the Caribbean, South America, and Europe, he has participated in the analysis of cross-border corporate transactions, due diligence procedures, review of commercial/corporate agreements, and the incorporation and reorganization of commercial groups and entities.

Richard is a recognised leader in commercial dispute resolution in the UAE and has practised contentious business law in the UAE and Middle East region for most of his career. His areas of specialisation are in the commercial litigation and arbitration fields, particularly with reference to commercial disputes, fraud and asset recovery, maritime, trade and insurance law in the United Arab Emirates and larger Middle East area.

Prior to working as Executive Partner at Hadef & Partners, Richard trained with Clifford Chance in London, worked with Clifford Chance in London and Dubai (1992 – 1996), later joining Al Tamimi & Co as partner (1996 – 2004). Richard is a member of the Law Society and a Practicing Solicitor of the Supreme Court of England and Wales. He is also a member of the International Bar Association (IBA), the Inter Pacific Bar Association (IPBA), and ICC FraudNet Member for the UAE. Richard is the current past President of the Inter-Pacific Bar Association (IPBA), and former Chairman of the Host Committee for the IPBA Annual Meeting and Conference held in Dubai from 7 to 10 March 2023.

Richard has recently been appointed Board Member of the Dubai International Arbitration Centre (DIAC), and was also the Chairman of the Host Committee of the International Congress of Maritime Arbitrators (ICMA) Conference which came to Dubai for the first time from 5 to 10 November 2023. Richard was formerly the Chairman of the ICC FraudNet S&P Committee from 2017 – 2019 and member of the ICC FraudNet Advisory Board, and former Vice Chair of the IBA Maritime Committee from 2008 – 2014. Richard is also former Vice Chair and Board Member of the Emirates Maritime Arbitration Centre (EMAC).