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.

Arthur Cox is one of Ireland’s leading law firms. For 100 years, we have led the way in the legal field in Ireland. We are an “all-island” firm, with offices in Dublin and Belfast. We also have offices in London, New York and San Francisco.

With over 550 legal staff and a total headcount of over 800, we provide a comprehensive service to an international client base ranging from multinational organisations, banks and financial institutions and established global leaders to government agencies and new players in emerging industry sectors.

In recognition of our standing in the market Arthur Cox was named Ireland Law Firm of the Year 2020 at the Chambers Europe Awards. We were also named Ireland Law Firm of the Year 2020 at the IFLR Europe Awards.

Joanelle O’Cleirigh is a Partner in the Litigation, Dispute Resolution and Investigation Group at Arthur Cox. Joanelle has over twenty years experience in various litigious commercial matters and has an expertise in investigations and inquiries, fraud inquiries and cases, white collar crime matters, search warrants, cyber security issues and fraud and asset recovery cases.

Joanelle has advised many key clients in relation to national and global litigation concerning fraud and conspiracy allegations including obtaining mareva injunctions and other necessary interim relief to protect clients interests. She has conducted significant investigations for clients into alleged fraudulent activities and advised many clients on compliance issues including bribery and anti-corruption.

More recently she has advised clients in relation to COVID-19 related fraud and is a lead advisor of key clients in relation to their crisis management and reporting obligations.

Joanelle also has unrivalled expertise in investigations (statutory and non-statutory) and has advised clients both in the private and public sectors on crisis and incident management, reporting obligations, reviews and investigations. She has been involved in some of Ireland’s most significant Commissions of Investigations, Tribunals, Inquiries and hearings for example:

• The matter of the Commission of the Investigation Act 2004 and the Commission of Investigation (Irish Bank Resolution Corporation) Act 2014

• The Tribunal of Inquiry into protected disclosures made under the Protected Disclosures Act 2014 and certain other matters following Resolutions passed by Dáil Éireann (Irish Parliament) and Seanad Éireann (Senate) on 16 February 2017

• The Tribunal of Inquiry into the Infection with HIV and Hepatitis C of Persons with Haemophilia

• The Dunne Post Mortem Organ Retention Inquiry

• The Lourdes Hospital Inquiry into Peripartum Hysterectomies

• The Commission of Investigation into the Death of Gary Douch

• The Commission to Investigate in the Dublin Diocese

• The Commission to Inquire into Child Abuse

• Review of action taken by An Garda Síochána relating to certain allegations made by Sergeant Maurice McCabe

• Independent Inquiry into Reports of Unlawful Surveillance of the Garda Síochána Ombudsman Commission

• The Commission of Investigation into Mother and Baby Homes

Joanelle is a lead partner in the Arthur Cox White Collar / Corporate Crime and Investigations Group and is the Irish Chapter Leader of the Women’s White Collar Defense Association which she founded in July 2018.

Axel Benjamin Herzberg is an expert in litigating, arbitrating, and collecting claims of all kinds, both, nationally and internationally. He primarily handles domestic and international commercial arbitration as well as cross-border commercial litigation matters. He also has vast experience in German as well as in cross-border asset tracing and asset recovery work.

In addition to his work as party”s counsel, Mr Herzberg also frequently acts as arbitrator in international and domestic proceedings (especially ICC and DIS) and, upon nomination of the German National Committee of ICC, has been appointed member of the ICC Commission on Arbitration and ADR and of its Task Force on Emergency Arbitrator Proceedings.

Mr Herzberg”s clients come from diverse industries, including
– commerce,
– real estate,
– tech, media and telecommunications,
– NGOs,
– energy,
– life sciences,
– logistics and transportation.

Mr Herzberg studied law at the German universities of Passau, Munich and Freiburg, as well as at the University of Geneva, Switzerland, where earned the Certificate in Transnational Law. Following his first state exam in Germany in 2006 (ranking among the top 2 %), he served as research assistant at the University of Basel, Switzerland, and subsequently completed his practical training period (Referendariat) with the Supreme Court of Berlin, Germany, earning his second state exam in 2010 (ranking among the top 5 %).

Thereupon, Mr Herzberg was appointed Deputy Counsel at the Secretariat of the ICC International Court of Arbitration in Paris, France, handling some 80+ international commercial as well as investor-state arbitrations. In 2011, Mr Herzberg assumed a position as associate with the litigation and arbitration group of Baker & McMenzie in Berlin where he handled international dispute matters until 2013. In 2014, Axel Benjamin Herzberg completed the University of London (Queen Mary/UCL) Postgraduate LL.M. programme in International Business Law with “merit”, and launched HERZBERG LEGAL, which merged to BODENHEIMER HERZBERG, of which Mr Herzberg was one of the two founding partners in 2017. The firm now has four partners and 20+ attorneys from six different jurisdictions at two offices (one in Berlin and one in Cologne).

Mr Herzberg is a bar-certified specialist in international business law (FA IWR), a member of the Berlin Bar Committee for Attorneys Specialised in International Business Law. He is also admitted to the roll of solicitors of the Senior Courts of England and Wales.

Mr Herzberg is frequently invited as speaker, lecturer or panelist to conferences and seminars across the world. He is one of the managing editors of the most detailed German-language commentary on the ICC and on the DIS Rules of Arbitration (Nedden/Herzberg/Kopetzki, ICC-SchO / DIS-SchO, 2nd ed., 2022).

Axel Benjamin Herzberg, LL.M.
Rechtsanwalt | Solicitor (England and Wales)
Fachanwalt für Internationales Wirtschaftsrecht
Master of International Business Law (London, Queen Mary/UCL)

Matt Lindsay has been a member of the ICC FraudNet since its inception and was the network”s Executive Director from 2012 to 2015. He has practiced in the fraud and asset recovery area for many years, and has been recognized as a leading practitioner by the International Who”s Who of Fraud and Asset Recovery Lawyers. He has been involved in all aspects of fraud and corruption investigation, recovery plan design and asset recovery for a wide variety of clients, including the development of investigation protocols, the design and implementation of multi-jurisdictional tracing and asset recovery plans, pre-emptive relief and discovery procedures, and the tracing and recovery of assets. He has also advised on related matters, including fidelity insurance coverage disputes, subrogation issues, the gathering and use of evidence obtained by authorities, and regulatory investigations. Matt has led fraud and asset recovery assignments across Canada and into many jurisdictions around the world. He is the former Managing Partner of the Calgary office of one of Canada”s largest law firms, and was the leader of that firm”s Fraud, Corruption and Asset Recovery group nationally.

Rose LLP is a litigation firm in Calgary, Alberta. The firm”s partners have over 200 years of combined litigation and trial experience and are all nationally recognized leaders in the legal profession. While located in Alberta, all of the firm”s partners have led and acted on significant matters across the country.

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.