Anthony (Tony) is the Senior Partner of PCB Byrne LLP, a specialist international asset recovery and dispute resolution practice. It has been described by The Times as “operating across a global landscape, recovering and protecting clients’ assets over borders and through multiple jurisdictions” as well as “solicitors to the banking community”.

The firm has an unparalleled reputation in civil fraud and asset recovery as is apparent from its consistent top-rankings in Chambers, the Legal 500 and Who’s Who Legal and the various accolades it has received. By way of example, these have included: ‘They are always imaginative and proactive in every situation, and will always give the client various options to choose from.’ ‘Under considerable time pressure, they still have this calm, quiet confidence which is very reassuring. They are very capable, pragmatic, astute individuals.’ ‘Simply outstanding’, extremely skilled’ and ‘real quality’.

As for Anthony, he is recognised as a leading lawyer acting for government agencies, public and private financial institutions and corporates in fraud investigation and litigation, asset recovery, banking litigation, insolvency, money-laundering, and bribery and corruption cases.

Anthony is consistently ranked by the Legal 500 and Chambers in the top tier of civil fraud lawyers and by Who’s Who Legal as a Global Thought Leader and one of the most highly recommended asset recovery lawyers in Europe. Plaudits have included a “stellar practitioner”, “superb lawyer” “shrewd tactician and a great fighter” who “navigates complex structures and transactions with ease”, is “wonderful to work with” and a “wonderful operator with particular expertise dealing with, and against, offshore firms”.

He is the founder and former chairman of the Commercial Fraud Lawyers Association.

Dr. Al Arfaj is a graduate of Al Imam Mohammed bin Saud University (B.A., 1998 in Shari’a), American University Washington College of Law (LL.M, 2000), and Valparaiso University School of Law, Indiana (Juris Doctor Degree, 2002). He advises on mergers and acquisitions, capital markets, private placements, commercial litigation, and corporate law. Prior to joining the firm Dr. Al Arfaj was a legal advisor to the Ministry of Petroleum and Saudi Aramco.

Key Experience:
– Attorney admitted to practice in Saudi Arabia.
– Admitted to the Massachusetts Bar Association.
– Advisor on litigation, arbitration, company formation; acquisitions,
joint ventures; commercial contracts; IPOs and private placements.

Abdulaziz H. Al Fahad & Partners is a full-service commercial law firm founded in 1985 with major international and local corporate clients in the banking, manufacturing, and trading sectors. As a leading Professional Service Partnership, our mission is to provide world class Saudi legal services to businesses and individuals in Saudi Arabia and to overseas participants in the Saudi market. Our prime location in modern premises in Riyadh allows us to remain at the hub of business activity while also being close to the principal government ministries and departments. At the Al Fahad & Partners, we have always believed that the quality of service we can provide and consequently, the success we can achieve for our clients, is directly dependent upon the quality of legal professionals who form our team. With this belief supporting our recruiting processes, we have always paid particular attention to identifying and selecting the best candidates in their respective fields of legal expertise.

Lindsay Sykes is a partner at PPO Abogados, a full-service law firm in Bolivia, and leads its Compliance and International Arbitration practices.

The Legal 500 names her a “Leading Individual” in Disputes, including her in its 2021 Arbitration Powerlist for Latin America, with clients stating that she is “excellent,” “stands out for her proactivity, her availability and her ability to find practical solutions to complex problems.”

IFLR1000 Women Leaders for 2022 recognized her as one the world’s most prominent women lawyers with outstanding reputations in their markets who have expertise on complex deals and hold leadership roles in their firms and practices. Additionally, she holds a Latin American Corporate Counsel Association (LACCA) Approved rating for Arbitration, voted on by leading in-house counsel in the region.

In the International Arbitration sphere, Lindsay has advised on high-stakes commercial and investment treaty arbitrations conducted under the ICC, ICSID Additional Facility, and UNCITRAL rules, in English and Spanish. She is an expert in analyzing and communicating complex information in a cross-border legal context, particularly regarding Latin America.

In the Compliance realm, Lindsay advises on all aspects of risk management and anticorruption compliance, including corruption risk assessments, analysis and testing of anticorruption and ethics policies, transactional and third-party due diligence, and internal investigations into allegations of fraud, bribery and other corporate misconduct.

Prior to co-founding PPO, Lindsay practiced complex cross-border dispute resolution and conducted internal investigations into allegations of corporate misconduct with leading international firms in the US.

Lindsay is a Director on the Board of the American Chamber of Commerce of Bolivia (Amcham Bolivia). In the academic sphere, she is a Professor of Private International Law and Public International Law at the Universidad Privada de Santa Cruz (UPSA), in Santa Cruz, Bolivia, and Postgraduate Professor of International Compliance and International Arbitration at the Universidad Católica Boliviana in La Paz, Bolivia.

In 2019, she was recognized as Gender Diversity Lawyer of the Year – Bolivia, in the Chambers & Partners Diversity & Inclusion Awards for Latin America. She is a member of the Steering Committee for Latin America of the Equal Representation in Arbitration (ERA) Pledge, an international initiative aimed at increasing women’s participation in arbitration. She leads PPO’s Pro Bono Program, which, in 2021, Chambers & Partners Commended as Diversity & Inclusion: Pro Bono Firm of the Year for Latin America.

Pamela has been practicing law for more than 25 years, and specializes in tax, commercial, and bankruptcy law, as well as complex litigation. Since her expertise ranges across a wide remit, she can provide a holistic approach on matters.

Pamela started her career at the Chilean Bankruptcy Superintendence, moving onto to PwC, one of the biggest consulting, tax and accounting firms internationally. She later went on to represent creditors and debtors involved in complex reorganization and liquidation, money laundering, torts and collection proceedings.

Pamela was the Chilean legal advisor and link between courts, the creditor’s comity, the debtor and the superintendence in regard to the first cross border case in Chilean history, which recognized the rights of Chilean liquidators to recover assets in different jurisdictions (case: Onix-A.Chang).

Pamela is based in Santiago de Chile, where she founded Lathrop Blanco Goldbaum Abogados. She also founded Goldbaum Advisors LLC in Florida, USA, and leads multidisciplinary teams composed of lawyers, accountants, auditors, forensics, finance experts, among others as necessary for the best outcome.

Pamela is known for her incisive analysis, strategic planning, and being determined and driven in all her cases. She has a commercial and practical approach and can explain complex situations using simple terms. She has been a professor of tax law and economy at the law school of Universidad Catolica de La Santisima Concepcion, Chile, has lectured on insolvency and asset recovery in Latin America, United States and the European Union; and is the Co-Chair and founding member of the Latin America Chapter of IWIRC (International Women’s Insolvency and Restructuring Confederation).

Ms. Plochocki is an experienced advocate who focuses her practice on complex transnational disputes, both at the trial and appellate levels. Her matters have included high-profile, multi-jurisdictional financial frauds and insolvencies, in which she has represented investors, individual executives, and corporations. Ms. Plochocki has a proven track record in international judgment enforcement and asset recovery. She has prevailed in contested applications for evidence for use in foreign proceedings pursuant to 28 U.S.C. § 1782 and won recognition of disputed international arbitral awards and regularly speaks on US asset recovery tools and strategies.

Ms. Plochocki also has expertise in the extraterritorial application of U.S. law and jurisdiction and regularly counsels and represents international clients on civil and criminal liability in US courts. She has successfully defended clients from allegations of material support for terrorism and achieved favorable resolutions for clients facing exposure to liability for business and financial activities conducted abroad. In recognition of her excellence in the field of International Law, Ms. Plochocki was selected as a Washington DC “Rising Star” by Super Lawyers in 2017 and 2018.

Ms. Plochocki graduated with honors from the University of Michigan Law School and Barnard College of Columbia University. She is admitted to practice in the state and federal courts of Washington D.C., New York, and California.

William is a litigation partner at New Zealand’s largest litigation firm, Meredith Connell. He specialises in cases involving suspected corporate fraud, investment disputes, professional negligence, and other white-collar matters.

He has made hundreds of appearances at every level of the New Zealand courts, for public- and private-sector clients. He conducts jury trials on behalf of the New Zealand state.

In 2015, William graduated Master of Laws from the University of Cambridge, with first-class honours and a Leonard Coling scholarship.

Between 2015 and 2019, he worked as an attorney in the London office of an American law firm, in one of the world’s top white-collar-crime practices.

In 2017, he was admitted to the English Bar and is a member of Middle Temple. In 2023, he was admitted to the Bar of the Pitcairn Islands.

William is a former editor-in-chief of the Auckland University Law Review. He is the current author of the New Zealand chapter in J. Seddon et al (eds), The Practitioner’s Guide to Global Investigations (GIR, Sixth ed. 2022). His published articles have appeared in the Oxford University Commonwealth Law Journal (UK), the New Zealand Business Law Quarterly, the New Zealand Law Journal, the Supreme Court Law Review (Canada), the Journal of Civil Litigation and Practice (Aus) and the Journal of Banking and Finance Law and Practice (Aus).

Examples of past cases are:

Counsel for one of New Zealand’s largest construction companies in investigating and freezing the assets of past employees and contractors suspected of a long-running, multi-million-dollar invoicing fraud (see e.g. THL (2005) v JDR Ltd [2022] NZHC 3627).

Advisor and counsel for the New Zealand subsidiaries of a large multinational company through a major internal investigation and subsequent high-profile litigation against its former directors and auditor in one of the largest alleged revenue frauds in New Zealand history (see e.g. Fujifilm Business Innovation New Zealand Limited v Whittaker [2021] NZHC 3292).

Overseeing the successful application to the English High Court to release two high-net-worth individuals from a world-wide-freezing order because of non-disclosure, with indemnity costs obtained (see Banca Turco Romana SA v Cortuk [2018] EWHC 662 (Comm) (28 March 2018)).

Advising a state government on a multi-jurisdiction investigation of historic fraud and corruption involving alleged losses of over US$1 billion, including regulatory and asset-recovery advice and engagement with US and Swiss law-enforcement agencies.

Representing a high-frequency trading firm facing charges of market manipulation in China following the 2015 Chinese futures crash, in a high-profile and politically significant case.

Advising and representing an international financial institution in litigation involving allegations of suspected money-laundering by its customers.