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).

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.

Luis Alfredo Barragán Arango is the founding partner of Asteri Law Firm, a Colombian boutique, truly independent, primary dedicated to Litigation, Arbitration, Insolvency, and Asset Recovery.

With more than 30 years of experience, Luis Alfredo has an extensive expertise in representing high-profile clients in the most complex domestic and cross-border insolvency proceedings, both in Colombia and overseas. Also, Luis Alfredo has as counsel in international and domestic arbitrations, and in the most representative litigations in Colombia before domestic courts. He is acclaimed for his deep knowledge in highly complex disputes related to public law, telecommunications, oil & gas, secured transactions, and commercial matters. His practice covers all areas of sophisticated litigations, alternative dispute resolution, restructuring, asset recovery, and insolvency matters.

Luis Alfredo is also member of the International Association of Restructuring, Insolvency and Bankruptcy Professionals – INSOL (London – UK) and has also served as counsel for the World Bank, the Inter-American Bank of Development, and the USAID on matters related to guarantees and their execution within reorganization proceedings. He has also drafted several bills to amend the Colombian General Procedure Code.

Moreover, Mr. Barragán has acted as leading counsel in arbitrations conducted under the main institutional arbitration rules, such as the ICC rules and the UNCITRAL rules, and has also served as international arbitrator in proceedings held under the ICC rules and the Permanent Court of Arbitration (PCA) rules. He has also been appointed as an expert witness before US Courts. He is part of the Lists of Arbitrators of the Chambers of Commerce of Bogotá, Cali, Cartagena, and Medellin, and is member to the Latin American Arbitration Group of the ICC.

He has been ranked as one of the best lawyers of his specialty by Who’s Who Legal, Chambers & Partners, Latin Lawyer, Best Lawyers, Euromoney, The Legal 500 Latin America, among others.