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.

Lee Shih is a commercial disputes lawyer and the managing partner of Lim Chee Wee Partnership. He acts regularly in matters involving commercial and corporate disputes, including fraud and asset recovery, shareholders’ disputes, international arbitrations and contentious insolvency matters.

He has acted in multi-jurisdictional fraud and asset recovery matters. He regularly works with forensic accountants, intelligence companies, and foreign counsel in leading and coordinating fraud litigation. He has acted for and advised state-owned entities, foreign multinationals, and private equity funds.

He is recognised in the area of dispute resolution in the legal directories of Chambers Asia-Pacific and The Legal 500 Asia-Pacific.

Lim Chee Wee Partnership is a boutique litigation firm specialising in commercial litigation and international arbitration. The three founding partners were from the dispute resolution practice of one of Malaysia’s largest law firms.

Ashanti was admitted to practice in Belize in 2004 and during this time she has garnered considerable experience in litigation and transactional matters. She has worked on several landmark constitutional and trade mark cases, complex multi-jurisdictional fraud and asset recovery cases, labour disputes, real estate disputes, commercial disputes, local and offshore corporations and real estate transactions. She also has considerable experience in banking and has represented foreign lenders in one of Belize’s largest multi-million dollar syndicated loans.

Ashanti is considered a leading attorney in Belize in Fraud and Asset Recovery, and has presented at local and international conferences on Belize’s Offshore Sector and Asset Recovery in Belize. Due to her work in asset recovery, in 2013 she was invited to join ICC FraudNet, a network of attorneys who specialize in Fraud and Asset Recovery.

Ashanti has argued before the Supreme Court and the Court of Appeal in Belize, and has appeared as Co-Counsel in several high profile cases before the Caribbean Court of Justice (Belize’s final appellate Court).

Memberships:
Secretary, Belize Chamber of Commerce and Industry
Executive Committee Member, Bar Association of Belize
Director, St. John’s College
Member, Belize’s National Mediation Committee
Member, ICC FraudNet

Professional Recognition:
Who’s Who Legal: Asset Recovery 2014-2016
Who’s Who Legal: Central America (Dispute Resolution) 2016

Balderamos Arthurs LLP:
Balderamos Arthurs LLP is a full service law firm whose attorneys have distinguished themselves academically and continue to do so professionally. We pride ourselves on our ability to find innovative and practical solutions for our clients and we work tirelessly to vindicate our clients’ rights.

Our attorneys have extensive experience in many areas of the law and have been pioneers in the areas of Fraud and Asset Recovery, Patent and Trademarks, Estates and Succession and Family law in Belize.  Our attorneys are known for their competence in undertaking complex matters including multi-jurisdictional litigation and transactions.

Our attorneys have successfully assisted clients in litigation involving constitutional and public law challenges, fraud cases, banking and debt collection, contract disputes, tort litigation, liquidation and receivership litigation, land disputes, estate matters, divorce and matrimonial property cases, and intellectual law disputes.

We have an experienced and efficient staff and are therefore poised to deliver timely results to our clients.