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.

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.