KW Kruk & Partners Law Firm LP has a long-term experience in representing its clients in cases involving financial frauds. The Law Firm’s core practice areas cover, in particular, taxation law, insurance law, securities law, banking law and commercial law. The clients of KW Kruk & Partners Law Firm LP are firms, banks, financial institutions, international and native firms. The Law Firm renders legal services to firms and individuals clients, injured and deceived in criminal or civil cases.

Managing Partner of Law Firm is legal advisor Jarosław Kruk. His main domain is international transactions, proceedings related to public administration authorities, especially involved in obtaining concessions, licenses, legal assistance in the matters concerning white-collar crimes and comprehensive legal services.

Principal areas of work: Court and Arbitration Disputes, Proceedings concerning white-collar crimes, Proceedings concerning public procurement, Administrative proceedings related to obtaining every kind of licenses, concessions, and permissions, Comprehensive legal services rendered to firms, Tax proceedings, including tax optimization, International transactions – especially related to assets purchase by foreign investors in Poland, Foreign expansion of Polish firms in on the international market, Legal assistance in corporate disputes, Proceedings involving environmental protection, waste economy and energetic law, IP cases, Labour disputes, Cases involving industrial property protection in Poland and EU such us: Notification of trademarks and industrial designs, claiming industrial property damages and actions of unfair competition, Cases involving copyright rights, such us: assistance in drafting copyright agreements, representation of publishers in drafting and negotiating agreements.

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.

Gábor Damjanovic has been a partner with Forgó Damjanovic & Partners Law Firm (Forgó, Varga & Partners Law Firm prior to 2010) since 2003; he is co-managing partner of the firm. He heads the Dispute Resolution Practice Group and handles complex, high-value commercial court cases and arbitrations, as well as fraud cases; almost always with a cross-border element. Gábor is frequently nominated as an arbitrator, both as wing and chair and has represented clients/acted as arbitrator under a number of different institutional rules, as well as under the UNCITRAL rules. According to Legal 500: “Gábor Damjanovic stands out for his ‘impressive practical knowledge in court cases and arbitration’”.

He has helped his clients in enforcement of court decisions and arbitral awards, assisted them in fake president fraud cases and in FCPA investigations.

Gábor has a niche expertise and understanding of the gambling industry.He and his firm also assists clients in corporate transactional matters, labour employment issues and general commercial matters.

Professional Memberships: Budapest Bar Association; IBA (Gábor is Secretary-Treasurer of the Professional Ethics Committee of the IBA and Hungarian rapporteur for the IBA Subcommittee for International Arbitration Case Law); Luxembourg Arbitration Association; Scottish Arbitration Centre; Hungarian Arbitration Association; ICCA (International Council for Commercial Arbitration); Listed by a number of arbitral institutions worldwide (London, Vienna Seoul, Belgrade, Warsaw, Budapest).

As a Senior Associate at Edmonds Marshall McMahon, London, Jane is primarily focused on leading investigations and prosecutions of fraud, bribery and corruption, and other related dishonesty offences. Jane’s current work includes leading large-scale anti-corruption and fraud investigations and prosecutions of corporates and high net-worth individuals in the UK and abroad (on behalf of both UK and foreign entities) and cross-border asset tracing.

Prior to joining the firm, Jane was a Senior Lawyer at the Serious Fraud Office in the bribery and corruption division, working on the global investigation and prosecution of Rolls Royce; one of the largest bribery and corruption cases in UK history. As part of the small team focused specifically on the Energy Division (Oil and Gas) of the Rolls Royce case, Jane worked closely with:

• foreign governments in furthering the global investigation into the alleged bribery and corruption; and • the US Department of Justice in securing charges against several former employees of Rolls Royce.

Other experience includes working as in-house legal counsel and commercial manager for a London-based technology company which included advising on multi-million dollar software licence agreements in Asia and the USA, and prior to that, practising as a civil and criminal litigation lawyer (as both prosecution and defence) at a leading law firm in New Zealand.

Partner

Miguel de Avillez Pereira is a founding partner of AvillezCastro, a law firm with emphasis on high-end transactions and complex multijurisdictional litigation, fraud and asset recovery. Before founding AvillezCastro, Miguel spent over 35 years as partner with top tier international and Portuguese law firms. He specializes in corporate, commercial, insolvency, fraud and asset recovery. Miguel assists on a regular basis financial institutions and multinational companies on several complex and high-value cases. In recent years, Miguel has advised on a number of high-profile cases in connection with fraud and asset recovery involving domestic and international companies with assets in Portugal and elsewhere. He is currently assisting several groups of creditors in connection with the collapse of the Espirito Santo Group and Banco Espirito Santo. Miguel holds an LL.M. from the University of Edinburgh (1992) and a Law Degree from the University of Lisbon (1989). He is co-author of a number of articles and books and a regular speaker at conferences.

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.