All content of Naomi Comerford

This video looks at Tether and NEXO, two ongoing questionable schemes in the crypto industry that collectively involve hundreds of billions of dollars. Speakers: Edward Normand, Partner, Roche Freedman; Eric Rosen, Partner, Roche Freedman; and Kyle Roche, Partner, Roche Freedman.

A discussion of the watershed SEC/Offshore Liquidators compromise in the liquidation of Cayman Islands-domiciled Income Collecting 1-3 Months T-Bills Mutual Fund and what it means for future insolvencies. Speakers: Guy Dilliway-Parry, Partner, Pirestleys; Igal Wizman, Partner, EY Bahamas; and Warren Gluck, Partner, Holland & Knight.

In this video, lawyers who have brought lawsuits around the world to recover cryptocurrency from exchanges and other entities will discuss their experiences and offer tips to avoid problems and be effective. Speakers: Amanda Tuminelli, Lawyer, Kobre & Kim; Dani Haston, Head of Global Asset Management, Chainalysis; Daniel Coyle, Counsel, Sequor Law; and Syed Rahman, Partner, Rahman Ravelli.

Having identified who stole the crypto, this video will show you how to recover it and who can be held legally liable, not just the thieves but those who laundered it and provided other services, including crypto exchanges. Speakers: Aidan Larkin, Chief Executive Officer, Asset Reality; Amanda Wick, Senior Investigative Counsel, U.S. House of Representatives; Carmel King, Director, Grant Thornton; and Jean-Michel Verelst, Director, Belgium's Asset Recovery and Asset Management Office.

Members of the opaque community of intelligence gatherers discuss the risks of their profession in this video. Speakers: Christopher Steele, Director & Joint Founder, Orbis Business Intelligence; Michael Ronickher, Partner, Constantine Cannon; and Andrew Wordsworth, Partner, Raedas.

This session will show you how to investigate who stole the crypto, where it went, whether it was converted into fiat currency, and who has the proceeds now. Speakers: Benedict Hamilton, Managing Director, Forensic Investigations and Intelligence, Kroll; Beth Bisbee, US Head of Investigations, Chainalysis; Hakob Stepanyan, Manager - Forensic Investigation & Litigation Services, BDO USA; and Monika Laird, Threat Finance Lead, TRM Labs.

This video is a how-to guide to liquidating and recovering assets across borders involving both onshore and offshore jurisdictions. Speakers: Hannah van Roessel, Director, Senior Legal Counsel, Omni Bridgeway; Ilan Cohen, Intelligence Analyst, Itur Financial Intelligence; James Pomeroy, Director, Grant Thornton; and Martin Kenney, Managing Partner, Martin Kenney & Co.

Russia's invasion of Ukraine has led to a surge in financial sanctions against Russian Oligarchs, banks, and other entities. The hunt is now on to identify beneficiaries, trace and freeze assets, including private jets and superyachts. Learn databases and tools that will help you know who you're dealing with and locate assets that they don't want you to know about. Presented by Ellen Hewitt, Senior Director, FTI Consulting; Nigel Nicholson, CEO, GreyList Trace; Roman Anin, Investigative Reporter, IStories; and Will Fitzgibbon, Investigative Reporter, ICIJ.

This video looks at a zero-click smartphone spyware tool known as 'Pegasus'. Speakers Mark Seibel of the Washinton Post and Stephanie Kirchgaessner of The Guardian discuss how Pegasus worked and provide specific examples of what it was used for.

Opening Remarks for OffshoreAlert Miami, our signature in-person conference on intelligence, investigations, and recovery that took place on April 24-26, 2022.

The world’s leading intelligence-gatherers, investigators, and asset recovery attorneys will gather this month to learn, network, and do business at OffshoreAlert’s conference-by-the-ocean in sunny Miami Beach. There will be 17 sessions on topics such as Russia, crypto, offshore, litigation funding, and an array of other subjects, while speakers include industry giants such as Jules Kroll, who pioneered the modern corporate investigations industry.

A prominent Russian investigative journalist whose Moscow home was raided last year by the country's Federal Security Service will speak at next month's OffshoreAlert Miami conference.

'Zero-click' spyware that was used to hack mobile phones to spy on more than 50,000 people, including lawyers, businesspeople, politicians, and journalists, will be analyzed at next month's OffshoreAlert Miami conference.

Jules Kroll, who pioneered the modern corporate investigations industry, will be the keynote speaker at next month's OffshoreAlert Conference in Miami. The 18th OffshoreAlert Miami conference will take place at the luxury, oceanside Ritz-Carlton, South Beach hotel in Miami Beach, Florida on April 24-26, 2022.

Due to unprecedented demand, the host hotel for next month's OffshoreAlert Conference in Miami Beach is almost full for the nights of our event so, if you plan to attend but haven't yet booked, you need to act now.

This week marks the 25th anniversary of OffshoreAlert being launched on February 24th, 1997. Since then, OffshoreAlert or its publisher have been sued for defamation in Canada, Cayman Islands, England, Grenada, Panama, and United States, two of them criminal, and received several death threats.

The recent "compromise" agreement between the USA's SEC and the liquidators of a Cayman Islands fraudulent mutual fund will be analyzed at this year's OffshoreAlert Miami conference that will take place at the luxury, oceanside Ritz-Carlton, South Beach hotel in Miami Beach, Florida on April 24-26, 2022.

The world's leading experts in crypto investigations, recovery, litigation, and regulation will present sessions at OffshoreAlert's in-person conference in Miami in April. Speakers include those from Chainalysis, TRM Labs, Ava Labs, and members of the Crypto Fraud and Asset Recovery network.

OffshoreAlert today announced the agenda for our in-person conference on intelligence, investigations, and recovery in Miami Beach on April 24-26. The burgeoning crypto industry dominates this year's agenda, with nine of the event's 16 sessions devoted to it.

The following statement was released today by OffshoreAlert, through its editor, David Marchant, founder and owner of OffshoreAlert, located in Miami, FL, in response to questions about our future in-person conferences...

This video presentation will show you how to go about recovering virtual assets. Speakers: Aidan Larkin (Asset Reality), Daniel Coyle (Sequor Law), Syedur Rahman (Rahman Ravelli)

This video discusses how to investigate crypto. Speakers: Daniel Burget (BDO USA), Ethan McMahon (Chainalysis), Nick Furneaux (CSITech)

This video presentation looks at trends and developments in the crypto industry, particularly regarding financial crime. Presented by Ethan McMahon (Chainalysis).

This video looks at whether crypto is the future of money or a vehicle for fraud on a scale that's unprecedented in the history of finance. Speaker: Gregory Coleman (Coleman Worldwide Advisors LLC)

In this video, leading international fraud and value recovery attorneys take questions and discuss emerging and dominant issues that impact one's ability to be successful and effective. This session was intended to be informal and interactive and represented an opportunity for the audience to have their questions answered by experts who have 'been there, seen it, done it'. Speakers: Martin Kenney (Martin Kenney & Co. Solicitors), Sebastian Said (Appleby), William Kraus (Butzel Long), Yves Klein (Monfrini Bitton Klein)

In this video, leading international fraud and value recovery attorneys take questions and discuss emerging and dominant issues that impact one's ability to be successful and effective. This session was intended to be informal and interactive and represented an opportunity for the audience to have their questions answered by experts who have 'been there, seen it, done it'. Speakers: Danny Ong (Rajah & Tann), Greg Grossman (Sequor Law), Henrique Forssell (Duarte Forssell Advogados), Rebecca Hume (Gateley Legal)

This video presentation introduces some of the primary online databases that are useful in identifying assets for companies and individuals globally. Included is a discussion about public and private corporate disclosures, land registries, litigation and procurement records, as well as more creative tools such as construction and fire permits, satellite imagery, leaked and breached data and people search engines. Most of this data is free, but accessing it can sometimes be challenging due to technical, geographical and language barriers or sheer volume. The presentation will also show you how to build your own tools to access these records or, alternatively, buy ready-made commercial solutions that do it for you. Throughout, the presenter will include several examples from real cases, illustrating a wide array of tools, techniques and skills required for asset tracing. Presented by Cristopher Uglea (FTI Consulting).

In this video, litigation funders discuss trends and developments in the industry and offer tips on how to get your claim funded. Barry Kamar (Westfleet Advisors), David Kerstein (Validity Finance), Paul Neufeld (Locke Lord), Wendie Childress (Validity Finance).

In this video, Ross Higgins talks through a variety of open source tools used by Bellingcat in a range of investigations, with a particular focus on financial investigations. He will also provide advice on the best ways to gather OSINT online. Speaker: Ross Higgins (Bellingcat)

In this video, British firm ZENRS demonstrates its international investigative tool. Speakers: Connor Allen (ZENRS), Kevin Weekes (ZENRS)

This video will show you how to use and map data to enhance your investigations into serious financial crime. Presenters: Antonina Volkotrub (Anti-Corruption Action Centre), David Thompson (Altana AI), Thomas Ewing (C4ADS)

Learn how to access critical third party and legal risk data across 100+ jurisdictions with automatic translation into 14 languages in minutes and with one simplified search. With the world's largest collections of legal information located on one service, connected by 440 million relationships, it has never been easier to search 120 million legal documents, including exclusive Caribbean and offshore content. Take this guided tour of the vLex platform and learn about vLex's unparalleled coverage, technology, and why over 2 million worldwide have joined vLex. Speakers: Natalie Milman (vLex), Susan Cunningham (vLex)

In this video, two investigative journalists in Switzerland discuss Swiss banking's involvement with financial crime, both historically and currently, the effect of criminal investigations in the United States, and the role and attitude of the Swiss judicial system in clamping down on financial crime. Speakers: François Pilet (Gotham City), Sylvain Besson (Tamedia)

In this video, GreyList Trace's Rebecca Hodson interviews the company's three founders: Bob Duffield, John Rawson and Nigel Nicholson.

This video examines how bad actors and hostile intelligence gatherers can exploit your online visibility to target your workforce and turn them into human intelligence sources. This is what is commonly referred to as cresting the Insider Threat. We will look at hostile methodology through an offensive lens and how you can mitigate against it. Speaker: Kevin Weekes (ZENRS)

This video presentation goes beyond clichés, stereotypes, and hyperbole and discusses what actually goes on inside offshore financial centers and whether it's different to what's reported by the global media. Adam Crane (Baker & Partners), Burke Files (FE&E), Julian Morris (Reason Foundation)

In this video, IRS senior representatives discuss the Agency's offshore tax enforcement initiatives, past, present, and future. Speakers: Damon Rowe (Internal Revenue Service), Jason Bell (Internal Revenue Service), Mark Daly (Department of Justice)

It's fair to say that the offshore corporate services industry feels aggrieved by the work of the International Consortium of Investigative Journalists. In this video, two representatives of the ICIJ and two offshore representatives will discuss projects such as the 'Panama Papers', 'Paradise Papers', and 'Pandora Papers' and, in particular, whether offshore finance is being treated fairly or unfairly.

Opening remarks by OffshoreAlert Editor David Marchant at OffshoreAlert vGlobal 2021 which took place on December 6-10, 2021.

'Crypto Day' at next week's FREE OffshoreAlert vGlobal virtual conference will focus on investigating and recovering virtual assets. The action being created for investigators and recovery attorneys by this industry is extraordinary. This day is for them and anyone who needs their help.

'Recovery Day' at next week's FREE OffshoreAlert vGlobal virtual conference will focus on introducing fraud victims to professionals who can help them and educating those professionals about latest developments in the industry.

'Investigations Day' will be the busiest day at next week's FREE OffshoreAlert vGlobal virtual conference on intelligence, investigations, and recovery in high-value international finance.

Next week's FREE OffshoreAlert vGlobal virtual conference on intelligence, investigations, and recovery will kick-off with our 'Offshore Day' on Monday, December 6th.

The latest tools, databases, and techniques to help you investigate and understand high-value international finance will be on display at next month's week-long OffshoreAlert vGlobal virtual conference.

OffshoreAlert's second annual virtual conference on intelligence, investigations, and recovery for participants in high-value international finance will take place on December 6-10. vGlobal 2021 will be five days of live and on-demand sessions, Q&A, themed days, video and chat networking, product demos, and interactive booths so clients, investigators, investors, and providers all over the world can learn, meet, and conduct business.

The ICIJ will discuss its ‘Pandora Papers’ investigation into financial secrecy during a free OffshoreAlert webinar this Friday. Based on “11.9 million leaked records”, the ICIJ describes the investigation as “the largest in journalism history” and says it “exposes a shadow financial system that benefits the world’s most rich and powerful”.

The ICIJ will discuss its ‘Pandora Papers’ investigation into financial secrecy during a free OffshoreAlert webinar this Friday. Based on “11.9 million leaked records”, the ICIJ describes the investigation as “the largest in journalism history” and says it “exposes a shadow financial system that benefits the world’s most rich and powerful”.

This weekend, we launched a new website and logo as part of a refresh of our visual identity. In addition to the revamp, we've improved usability and the overall experience for visitors.

During the 2008 credit crisis, offshore funds found themselves in distress over a combination of unrealistic NAV valuations, investments into failed asset classes (such as asset-backed securities) and a lack […]

A practical guide for foreign insolvency practitioners to cooperate successfully with the Securities and Exchange Commission so that time and money is not wasted to the detriment of fraud victims […]