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.

Her practice focuses on complex fraud and asset recovery litigation. She has experience in all aspects of the litigation process and routinely acts as lead counsel on litigation, judgment enforcement, fraud, cross-border insolvency, asset tracing. She often works on cases involving parallel civil and criminal proceedings, both domestically and internationally. Participates in conducting audits, including due diligence of business partners, individual transactions and adopted procedures and solutions in terms of compliance thereof with the law. Supports clients in transactions with particular focus on mergers and acquisitions. Advises in complex restructuring projects of companies, including mergers, transformations and divisions. Provides appropriate support and represents clients during business negotiations leading to the conclusion of a contract. Graduated from Warsaw University, Faculty of Law and Administration. Author of several publications concerning matter of asset recovery and fraud. Speaks Polish, English and Russian.

Héctor is a partner in our White Collar Crime and Compliance areas. He is a graduate lawyer from Pontificia Universidad Católica del Perú. He also has a Master of Laws (LL.M) from Columbia University of New York and a Masters in Criminal Law and Criminal Sciences, from University of Barcelona and Pompeu Fabra University.

He has been a partner and head of the white collar crime area at the Benites, Vargas and Ugaz Law Firm, where he worked for more than fourteen years.

Héctor has been in charge of overseeing investigations and criminal proceedings at national and international level for fraud related crimes, environment, financial, money laundering, corruption, etc. He also specializes in the practice of compliance, developing and implementing crime prevention models, conducting internal investigations and asset recovery efforts.

He has also been a professor of Criminal Law at the Judicial Academy and at the Pontificia Universidad Católica del Perú Law School.

Hector was accredited by the Society of Corporate Compliance and Ethics (SCCE) as Certified Compliance and Ethics Professional (CCEP) (New York, 2017) and has been a speaker at several international events on fraud, anti-corruption and compliance practices.

He has been acknowledged by several international publications dedicated to the analysis of legal services, such as Chambers and Partners, Leaders League, Legal 500, among others.

Rebaza, Alcázar & De Las Casas is a firm with an energetic and passionate approach to the practice of law and an active attitude and involvement in its clients’ business requirements. Established in 2004, it is currently one of the top firms in the Peruvian market.

We have built up a full service firm, adding to our premier transactional practice a number of highly specialized legal areas.

Our Firm has positioned itself as a leader in mergers and acquisitions, securities, investment funds, infrastructure, concessions and projects, financings, restructuring and bankruptcy. We also have a leading Peruvian practice specialized in matters of white collar crime, litigation and crisis management.

Likewise, our tax, labor and corporate teams provide legal advice to our local and international clients.

The most prestigious international analysts of the legal services markets have acknowledged the high level of our team of lawyers and have ranked them as Peru’s “most highly recommended”.

Kate McMahon, one of the founding partners of Edmonds Marshall McMahon, is a specialist dual-qualified prosecutor specialising in complex and serious fraud, money laundering, corruption and regulatory crime.

Kate has formely held impressive positions within the SRA, Department of Public Prosecutions (Australia), Government Legal Service (UK) and the Serious Fraud Office where she worked as a senior lawyer on some of the UK’s largest and most complex cross-jurisdictional prosecutions.

In 2012, Kate was a founding partner of Edmonds Marshall McMahon. Kate typically acts in cases involving corporate or banking frauds of significant value.

Kate is known for her incisive analysis and strategic vision, is highly regarded by her clients and has a reputation for being extremely determined and driven in all her cases. Kate has been described as “highly commercial”, “a formidable adversary” and “highly respected” by the Legal 500 and has been a recommended individual in the area of white-collar crime since 2013.

She has been recognised in the ‘Women in Law Awards’ (The Lawyer Monthly) and was voted ‘Best Female Fraud Lawyer – UK’ by the Corporate Livewire Awards in 2015. She is currently one of the selected solicitors to act together with the Government in a new City of London Police initiative to tackle fraud. In 2017, Kate was named in The Lawyer’s “Hot 100” which lists the most creative and influential lawyers in the U.K.

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.

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.