At The 10th Annual OffshoreAlert Conference, you will learn everything you need to know about Offshore Financial Centers – whether you are a buyer, provider or investigator of financial products and services. 

Experts in the areas of tax, law, wealth planning, regulations, compliance, politics, investigations, intelligence-gathering, money laundering, fraud and asset recovery will help you navigate the ever-changing, complex world of offshore finance. 

You will find out why OFCs are used by the world's biggest corporations and High Net Worth Individuals to minimize risk and maximize protection and what to do if things go wrong. And you will meet successful, knowledgeable, wealthy, influential and powerful people in all areas of international finance – from all over the world. Approximately half of attendees live in the world's major countries and the other half live and work in the world's major offshore financial centers. 

There will be more than 50 speakers, including:

• Commercial Court Judges from the Bahamas, Bermuda, British Virgin Islands and Cayman Islands;
• Daniel Reeves andJohn McDougal, who are spearheading the IRS' clampdown on offshore tax evasion;
• Jeffrey Owens, Head of Tax at the OECD;
• Directors of the Whistleblower Offices of the IRS, SEC and the CFTC – First-Time Ever on One Panel;
• Martin Kenneyand Ed Davis, two of the world's leading cross-border asset recovery attorneys;
• Liquidation &Insolvency Experts from onshore and offshore jurisdictions; and
• Attorneys with Leading Offshore Law Firms such as Appleby, Mourant Ozannes, and Walkers.

There will be 25 sessions, with tracks for buyers, providers and investigators of offshore products and services, including:

• Taxing Avoiders & Evaders: An Update: An update on the ongoing efforts by the world's major countries to collect taxes from High Net Worth Individuals and big corporations; 
• The Rise of Offshore Courts: The Judicial Perspective: Judges in key OFCs will discuss laws and significant rulings that affect foreign companies, including the $111 m damages award in the Cayman Islands against non-executive directors of Weavering Fund and a ruling in the British Virgin Islands not to allow the liquidators of Fairfield Sentry to claw back investor redemptions in the fraud by Bernard Madoff; 
• The Offshore World in a Modern Global Economy: Practical reasons why OFCs are used in international business, highlighting that the use of OFCs is not just tax-driven;  
• Recovering Assets Offshore: A Practical Guide: How to go about locating, freezing, and seizing assets held in OFCs;  
• Foreign Account Tax Compliance Act: The Institutional and Individual Client Impact of Compliance; and  
• Enticing the Top Echelon: How the IRS, SEC and CFTC Attract High-Level Whistleblowers. 

The 10th Annual OffshoreAlert Conference will take place at The Ritz-Carlton, South Beach in Miami Beach, Florida on April 29 to May 1, 2012. It is where buyers, providers and investigators of offshore products and services meet in an independent forum to discuss everything that's significant in international finance. 

Not registered yet?  Click Here for Conference Tickets and we'll see you in Miami on April 29!