Luca Cavagnaro

Luca Cavagnaro deals with commercial and corporate law and advises on both ordinary and extraordinary transactions. He advises on corporate compliance, including anti-fraud programs, internal investigations, compliance frameworks designed to mitigate corporate liability, anti-money laundering, anti-corruption, and related asset recovery activities at both national and cross-border levels. He holds positions as chairman and member of supervisory bodies for various organisations.

Sebastiaan Barten

Sebastiaan é um advogado admitido para exercer nas Caraíbas Holandesas, que consistem em Aruba, Bonaire, Curaçao, Sint Maarten, Sint Eustatius e Saba. É especialista numa vasta gama de litígios empresariais e comerciais, com especial incidência na execução de decisões judiciais e arbitrais e na recuperação de activos.

Sebastiaan construiu uma forte reputação como litigante em assuntos complexos e multi-jurisdicionais, e tem um excelente historial na assistência a clientes nos seus litígios internacionais, tendo representado com sucesso várias empresas multinacionais e instituições financeiras em assuntos contenciosos transfronteiriços de elevado valor.

É professor convidado na Universidade de Curaçao e membro da direção da Antilliaanse Juristenvereniging (Associação de Advogados das Antilhas). Em 2023, o Legal 500 classificou Sebastiaan como uma "Rising Star" nas Caraíbas Holandesas.

About Spigt Dutch Caribbean
Spigt Dutch Caribbean is the sharpest law firm in the region for both transactions and contentious matters. Local and international clients appreciate the decisive approach and determination of the firm’s attorneys. This has been the foundation of the firm’s success and growth.
Spigt Dutch Caribbean has been ranked in Band 1 in the Dutch Caribbean by Chambers Global.

Nils Holger Koefoed

Nils is a Partner and serves as a director of the firm’s board at Ro Sommernes. He specialises in bankruptcy, restructuring & debt negotiations, corporate law and real estate law. He is regularly appointed as a trustee by the Probate and Bankruptcy Courts in Norway.

Corey Omer

Corey in a partner in the dispute resolution, investigation and white-collar defence, and technology groups at Davies Ward Phillips & Vineberg LLP, a leading Canadian law firm. He represents Canadian and foreign clients in a wide array of significant and complex litigations and investigations, including fraud and misappropriation claims, cybersecurity matters, commercial disputes, and shareholder disputes. He regularly appears before the Quebec Superior Court, the Quebec Court of Appeal, and courts in other Canadian provinces.

Corey has been recognized by Chambers Canada, Benchmark Canada, and the Best Lawyers in Canada, and was awarded the Burton Award for Legal Achievement – Distinguished Legal Writing. He is a member of the Quebec, Ontario, and New York bars.

Corey also teaches Trial Advocacy as a sessional lecturer at the McGill University Faculty of Law and previously taught a comparative course on U.S. civil procedure.

Before joining Davies, Corey was a litigator at the New York office of an international law firm. He previously clerked for the Honourable Justice Morris J. Fish at the Supreme Court of Canada and obtained a Master of Laws focused on cyberlaw from Harvard Law School.

Emmanuel Kaspereit

Emmanuel Kaspereit advises clients on international litigation, including cross-border proceedings, enforcement, interim measures and international asset tracing.

He has considerable experience in enforcement of foreign judgments and arbitral awards, especially against sovereign states and in fraud matters. He advises French and international clients on defining and carrying out strategies for recovery of assets.

Emmanuel graduated in Business Law from University Paris-II Panthéon Assas and holds a Master in European Business Law from the same university. He holds an LLM from the University of Edinburgh. He lectured at the Sorbonne (University Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne).

Emmanuel practices in French, English and Spanish.

Michaël Schlesinger

Michaël Schlesinger’s practice focuses on complex cross-border disputes.

Michaël Schlesinger has been a member of the Paris bar since 2012.

His practice focuses on complex cross-border disputes and enforcement of foreign judgments, in particular involving Sovereigns, parallel proceedings and civil fraud.

He has extensive experience in civil procedure, international law (public and private) and recovery procedures.

He works in French, English and Spanish.

He previously clerked at the Versailles Court of Appeal. He also trained with an international firm and a third-party funder.

He graduated in Private International Law and International Business Law (University Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne) and Private Law (University Paris 2 Panthéon-Assas). He also studied at the University of Birmingham (United Kingdom).