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.

Fahad previously worked with Saudi Aramco as Legal Advisor to both the Ministry of Petroleum and the company.  He has over 22 years’ experience in the region and is an advisor on various corporate matters, including merger and acquisitions, joint ventures, commercial contracts, Banking and Finance, Capital Markets transactions and private equity transactions.

He has handled matters for international lenders and sponsors to major Saudi project and commercial and Islamic-compliant financings. Fahad also has experience handling complex cases before Saudi courts and tribunals, and is actively involved in advising Saudi and foreign clients on a wide range of Saudi Arabian corporate, Sharia, and commercial law issues.

Fahad has extensive experience in disputes, including arbitration and mediation. He is frequently appointed as an expert witness on matters pertaining to Saudi law before courts and tribunals in the United States, the United Kingdom and Europe. Fahad also serves as an arbitrator at the Saudi Centre for Commercial Arbitration, specializing in commercial disputes.

Ciro Colombara is the founding partner of RCZ and co-head of the firm´s Litigation Department.

His expertise is in complex litigation, both in Chile and overseas. He has developed his career mainly in sophisticated disputes relating to Commercial law, Civil Law, Criminal Law and International Law, among other matters. This has led him to be recognized by ranking agencies such as Chambers & Partners and Best Lawyers. These publications have highlighted Colombara as one of the best litigators in Chile, thanks to the outstanding success that he has had in cases of national and international importance involving international recovery of assets. He has led teams of lawyers and legal departments, using his knowledge and experience in commercial, criminal and civil litigation, victims rights in criminal proceedings, creditors and cross-border insolvency.

In Chile, he has been described as “acute, skilful, influential and well connected, while his peers define him as one of the most successful criminals litigators of his generation, with a high rate of cases won. In large part to his strategic view, they say that he is capable of getting two or three steps ahead in each case, using intuition and business acumen “(Qué Pasa magazine)

Steven built up PCB Litigation to have a leading reputation, and for the last 2 years, Steven has been Head of the International Fraud Litigation Team at Asserson. He is a leading authority on the management of international commercial litigation and arbitration, and specialises in Civil Fraud and Asset Recovery matters.

Steven was Asset Recovery Lawyer of the Year by Who’s Who. Legal 500 has singled him out as being a leading individual in civil fraud and as being ‘aggressive for clients’ claims’, ‘unparalleled’, and a ‘great strategist and fighter’. Chambers selected him as a member of their Spotlight Table, stating that Steven is a world-class asset recovery practitioner.

Directories & Testimonials

Steven has been described as ‘always seeking to push the boundaries to maximise [his] client’s position – he thinks outside the box and ‘has a breadth and depth of experience, and extensive knowledge of the market’. Chambers have described him as a “brilliant thinker” according to market sources, who also commend him as having excellent instincts, being result orientated and a “visionary in terms of his command of tactics”. Steven has been listed by the London Times as one of the 100 Key Influential Legal Professionals in the UK.

Leadership & Associations

Steven was the Founder Member of Fraudnet and has been actively working with fellow members on a global basis has recently led a group in a successful Chinese case. Steven was Deputy Chairman of the UK Fraud Advisory Panel and has been recently appointed to its’ Advisory Committee. Steven also served in a number of important roles for the UK’s Commercial Fraud Lawyer’s Association and the Dubai International Financial Centre Courts.