All content of Naomi Comerford

Every crook needs a compliant bank. Madoff had JP Morgan ($17.5 billion); Stanford had SG Private Bank (Suisse), HSBC and TD Bank ($5.5 billion); Rothstein had TD Bank ($500 million) ... the list is depressingly long. This session will discuss proven ways to make banks pay up when they have provided services to fraudsters.

Speakers Guy Manning, Partner, Campbells (Cayman Islands) Hugh Dickson, Partner, Grant Thornton (Cayman Islands) Russell Crumpler, Director, KPMG (BVI) Callum McNeil, Partner, Campbells (BVI)

This session will involve a psychoanalysis of Trump and his supporters, an explanation of his popularity, and what it says about the USA.

Supreme Court Justice Ian Winder and two Queens Counsel, Brian Moree and Brian Simms, will discuss how the commercial courts are functioning and areas for improvement.

The session will deal with how individuals and financial institutions can operate within the reporting requirements of the new law, stay away from the mandatory withholding requirements and prevent US investigations and prosecutions.

This session will look at how the 'Bloomberg Billionaires Index' is calculated, with an emphasis on the calculation of the net worth of Donald Trump, who is either insolvent or very wealthy, depending on who you ask.

The United States routinely takes the moral high ground when accusing offshore jurisdictions of facilitating money laundering and tax evasion to the detriment of the world's major countries and the global economy in general. This session will look at evidence that suggests it's a case of the pot calling the kettle black?

A behind-the-scenes eye-witness account of the international wealth management profession from a sociologist who has spent the last eight years researching it, during which time she trained to become a wealth manager and visited 18 offshore jurisdictions.

An introduction to the conference, its aims and a breakdown of who is in attendance.

In the wake of the release of 11.5 million hitherto confidential account records known as 'The Panama Papers', which the target, Mossack Fonseca law firm, claims was obtained through hacking, and various other leaks of client information, this session will look at prudent steps to protect your data, whether stored on mobile devices, servers or in other electronic form.

This session will look at the latest developments in the area of e-discovery, including how US-based rules affect other jurisdictions, how to harvest hidden material, data review strategies, and cross-border transfer of data for litigation purposes.

The panelists, both experienced litigators, will discuss methods and practice pointers for obtaining pre-litigation discovery in the U.S. and offshore. The session will also cover recent and important amendments to the U.S. federal rules governing both discovery and document preservation obligations.

  Speakers Bradley C. Birkenfeld, UBS Whistleblower (USA)

Engage in a candid dialogue with two former federal prosecutors, one also a former SEC Enforcement lawyer, who are both now in private practice, specializing in legal cases involving financial crime.

Learn the latest developments, tips, strategies and best practices developed by the industry experts to recover - using offshore means - assets from China, which has historically been a dark hole for international judgment enforcement efforts.

This panel will examine, compare and discuss the legal standards for piercing the corporate veil in respect of major litigation jurisdictions including Bermuda, the Bahamas, British Virgin Islands, Cayman Islands, the United Kingdom and the USA.

Short-seller Keith Dalrymple will discuss how he exposed Bermuda-domiciled, New York Stock Exchange-listed reinsurer Gerova Financial Group Ltd., contributing to its collapse, criminal indictments against Gerova's principals and a smear campaign against him and his investment research company.

Journalists who specialize in investigating financial crimes discuss their work, the jurisdictions they cover, the scale of the problem, and impart advice on how to detect investment fraud.

This session will look at how to gather information on individuals and companies using open source data-gathering tools and how to interpret it.

This session will explain cutting-edge techniques and legal theories by which to prove fraud and fraudulent transfer, pierce the corporate veil, locate and seize assets, and enforce judgments.

A sickening child-abuse scandal, a U.S. journalist banned from the jurisdiction simply for trying to conduct an investigation, money laundering scandals, endemic corruption and cover-ups galore. Is Jersey truly immoral to a degree that is scarcely believable or is it misunderstood? An attorney who is based on the island reveals all.

A wrap-up of the conference's main talking points.

The Sunday Times' 'Insight' investigative unit receive a cache of hundreds of millions of secret documents from a whistleblower detailing corruption and bribery within football's world governing body, FIFA, that led to Qatar being awarded the 2022 World Cup. The Editor of that unit will discuss the investigation and the evidence.

This session will look at compelling evidence of corruption within the British political system that results in Peerages and other honours being given to individuals based on their financial contributions, rather than merit.

There is compelling evidence that many of the world's leading banks pay lip service to compliance and, if fees are high enough, will knowingly engage in criminal activity on behalf of clients. In this session, two whistleblowers will discuss what really went on inside their former employers.

This session will look at - and seek to explain - the British obsession with cover-ups and whitewashes, as evidenced in recent years by farcical inquiries into matters such as phone-hacking, Hillsborough, and Jimmy Savile and a prevailing attitude of 'protect the establishment at all costs'. It will also look at the hypocrisy of British politicians who claim to advocate transparency and integrity, particularly for offshore financial centres, while practicing secrecy and deceit.

Jurisdictions seldom, if ever, hold so-called professional, nominee or independent directors accountable for financial crimes committed by companies they are supposed to govern, no matter how asleep at the wheel they are. This session will look at whether they can ever be held accountable for negligence and, if yes, under what circumstances.

A look at how tax evasion and a fraud contributed to the economic crisis in Greece and lessons that can be learned by other countries.

This session will look at how tens of billions of dollars of criminal proceeds from eastern Europe are laundered into the West, with the help of offshore structures and Russian banks owned by Vladimir Putin's cousin.

An introduction to the conference, its aims and a breakdown of who is in attendance.

This session will show you how to obtain discovery in the United States under 28 U.S.C. 1782 for use in legal actions outside the U.S.

The United Kingdom property market, particularly in London, has become a notorious money laundering tool for Russian oligarchs and other wealthy individuals in recent years. As a result, real estate prices have been surging and an increasing number of properties are owned through offshore entities. This session will delve into the phenomenon, including providing case studies of abuse, identifying individuals involved and discussing their methods.

The panel will examine, compare and discuss the legal standards for piercing the corporate veil in respect of major litigation jurisdictions including the USA, British Virgin Islands, Cayman Islands, Isle of Man, Jersey, Guernsey and the United Kingdom.

A review of the first six years of the Commercial Court in the British Virgin Islands, which was set up to adjudicate in disputes arising from the jurisdiction's thriving international business sector.

This session will look at recent legal decisions affecting private funds, both in the U.S. and offshore, including claw-back decisions.

For many years, the British Virgin Islands has been the King of Incorporations in the offshore world, proving to be particularly popular with citizens of China and Russia in recent times. This session will look at why the BVI is so attractive to foreigners seeking to set up offshore shell entities, what the jurisdiction offers that rivals don't, what is so appealing about its legal structures, and what they are being used for.

This session will look at allegations that Richard Vento and his family were swindled by offshore providers in Anguilla, Bahamas, and Nevis after putting more than $30 million of assets into an estate planning scheme and detail the family's multi-jurisdictional legal battle to recover those assets.

This session will look at allegations that, when trust settlors die, some trustees use the opportunity to steal their assets to the detriment of living beneficiaries and the remedies available to victims.

OffshoreAlert has assembled a panel of the most important people in the history of whistleblowing to take you inside the UBS and HSBC leaks and discuss material issues, including the treatment of whistleblowers by law enforcement and tax collection agencies, how the system can be improved, the extent of global tax evasion and the involvement of the world's major banks.

This session will look at the growing problem of domain name thefts, with fraudsters often using offshore jurisdictions in an attempt to keep what they have stolen, and steps that can be taken to recover stolen domains, obtain damages, and protect against future thefts.

This session will look at how Canadians Cullen Johnson and Elaine White were able to pull off a bizarre offshore asset recovery and investigative scam from offices in the Bahamas and Turks and Caicos Islands.

This session will advance certain counter-measures that can allow fraud victims seeking recovery to overcome seemingly-insurmountable obstacles in countries where the government and regulators shamelessly assist and protect fraudsters.

An analysis of recent U. S. Department of Justice tax enforcement efforts and predicting future enforcement activity aimed at offshore and Asian financial institutions.

This session will look at a 10-year legal battle between the USA and the liquidators of Eurofed Bank, in Antigua, for control over assets accumulated by corrupt former Ukraine Prime Minister Pavlo Lazarenko.

This session will look at investigative web-sites whose financial model is to profit from price falls in publicly-listed securities. They do this by identifying red flags in publicly-listed companies, shorting their shares, and then publishing the negative information for other investors to make of what they will.

This session will look at how tens of billions of dollars of criminal proceeds from eastern Europe are laundered into the West, with the help of offshore structures and Russian banks owned by Vladimir Putin's cousin.

This session will look at the latest developments in the quest by the IRS to collect taxes from U.S. taxpayers with undeclared accounts in foreign jurisdictions and to prosecute and penalize those taxpayers whose structures are considered to be illegal and the service providers who assist them.

An introduction to the conference, its aims and a breakdown of who is in attendance.

This session will look at Raoul Weil's successful defense strategy, key legal and trial issues, and the implications for other foreign bankers and advisers who find themselves similarly charged with helping U.S. taxpayers evade taxes.

This session will examine statute of limitation issues from the perspective of a litigant seeking to attack the transfer of funds to a trust set up in 'trust-friendly' jurisdictions, in particular the Cook Islands, The Bahamas, Cyprus and Nevis.