Associate Professor of Law, University of Miami School of Law (Miami)
Professor Dawson specializes in cross-border insolvency issues.
Founder, Concorde Associates & Retired Senior Special Agent, IRS Criminal Investigation, Offshore Coordinator (Miami)
After serving for over 29 years as an IRS Criminal Investigation Special Agent, Art is now a private consultant, assisting international businesses in assessing risk, advising on environmental issues and meeting compliance requirements. He also educates governments and banks about offshore financial issues, fraud and correspondent banking topics.
Journalist & Author (New York)
Atossa Araxia Abrahamian is a journalist and the author of 'The Cosmopolites', a book about buying and selling citizenship.
Brad's disclosures to the IRS led to a massive fraud investigation into Swiss bank UBS and other banks that enabled tax evasion by U.S. taxpayers. In 2012, he received a $104 million award from the IRS Whistleblower Office - the largest whistleblowing award in history.
Senior Partner, McKinney, Bancroft & Hughes (Bahamas)
Brian is the Senior Partner of one of the oldest and biggest law firms in the Bahamas.
Senior Partner, Lennox Paton (Bahamas)
Brian Simms QC is the Senior Partner of Bahamas-based law firm Lennox Paton and the head of its Litigation and Insolvency and Restructuring Groups.
Associate Professor, Copenhagen Business School (Denmark)
Brooke has spent the last eight years researching the international wealth-management profession, including training to become one and visiting 18 offshore jurisdictions.
Partner, Kostelanetz & Fink (New York)
Bryan specializes in representing clients in sensitive matters, many of which involve negotiations with government agencies.
Callum is a highly experienced Commercial Litigator who has developed particular expertise in contentious funds and cross border insolvency matters.
Partner, Berger Singerman (Fort Lauderdale)
Charles specializes in complex commercial litigation.
Head of Threat Research and Intelligence, Armor (Texas)
Dr. Chase Cunningham proactively seeks out cyber threat tactics and technical indicators of various threat groups. He is regularly cited as an expert on cyber security and contributes to white papers and other publications. He is also the co-author of The Cynja, a comic designed to educate children about security threats and online best practices.
Head of Litigation, Martin Kenney & Co., Solicitors (BVI)
Dan is a senior litigation attorney with substantial experience of complex multi-jurisdictional litigation.
Director, Burford Capital (London)
Dan is co-head of Burford's global corporate intelligence, asset-tracing and enforcement business.
Founder, Offshore Compliance & Enforcement Consulting Group & Retired Senior Advisor, IRS Offshore Compliance Initiative (New Jersey)
While with the IRS from 1977 to 2012, Dan developed many of the investigative techniques currently being used to identify U. S. taxpayers with offshore bank accounts and has led a number of high-profile investigations that involved the use of John Doe summonses to obtain offshore banking records, including UBS AG, HSBC, the Stanford Financial Group and others.
Partner, G-C Partners (Texas)
David specializes in digital forensic investigations.
Owner & Editor, OffshoreAlert (Miami)
David specializes in exposing serious financial crime while it is in progress.
Partner, Zerbe, Fingeret, Frank & Jadav (Washington, D.C.)
The counsel responsible for the modern IRS whistleblower law and award program, Dean now represents a select number of tax whistleblowers, including the most successful whistleblower in the history of the U.S., Bradley Birkenfeld, who was awarded $104 million in 2012 for blowing the whistle to the IRS about tax fraud by UBS.
Founding Shareholder, Sequor Law (Miami)
Based in Miami, Ed specializes in international fraud and asset recovery and has been involved in several high-profile cases.
Managing Partner, Osen LLC (New Jersey)
Gary is at the forefront of ground-breaking civil counter-terrorism litigation.
Director, International Consortium of Investigative Journalists (Washington, D.C.)
As director of the ICIJ, Gerard brought together more than 140 journalists from more than 50 countries to work on stories about tax havens that made headlines and led to resignations, changes in law, and other government actions on four continents. The stories became known as 'Offshore Leaks', 'China Leaks', 'Lux Leaks' and 'Swiss Leaks'.
Partner, BakerHostetler (New York)
Since 2009, Gonzalo has been the lead attorney since 2009 on the BakerHostetler team that serves as court-appointed counsel to the SIPA trustee for the liquidation of Bernard L. Madoff Investment Securities LLC.
Founding Shareholder, Sequor Law (Miami)
Greg specializes in creditors' rights, including bankruptcy and insolvency litigation, restructurings, and litigation involving the Uniform Commercial Code.
Special Agent, FBI (Retired) (New York)
While serving for 25 years as an FBI Special Agent, Greg led the criminal investigation into securities fraudster Jordan Belfort, the self-professed 'Wolf of Wall Street'. Now in private practice, Greg educates the financial industry about international money laundering, risks associated with Bitcoin, and the use of body language & statement analysis.
Partner, Campbells (Cayman Islands)
As head of Campbells' Litigation, Insolvency & Restructuring Group, Guy specializes in insolvency, restructuring and investment fund litigation.
Partner, Grant Thornton (Cayman Islands)
Hugh works in Recovery & Reorganisation, specialising in restructuring, insolvency and the financial sector.
Judge, Supreme Court of the Bahamas (Bahamas)
Ian Winder has been a Judge of The Supreme Court of The Bahamas since October 2013. He presently sits in the Civil and Commercial Division of the Court.
Associate, Foley Hoag (France)
Ivan focuses his legal practice on international arbitration and litigation.
Partner, Shulman Rogers (Washington, D.C.)
A former Senior Counsel in the SEC's Division of Enforcement, Jacob specializes in securities enforcement, white-collar criminal defense, FCPA and internal and government investigations.
Chief of Money Laundering Unit, FBI (New York)
James heads the FBI's money laundering investigations unit.
Partner, Vinson & Elkins (Washington, D.C.)
An experienced trial lawyer, Jason represented the liquidators of Eurofed Bank, of Antigua, in its gargantuan legal tussle with the U. S. Government for control of Eurofed's assets.
Investigative Reporter, Bloomberg News (New York)
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Investigative Reporter, Bloomberg News (New York)
Partner, Kobre & Kim (Miami)
An experienced trial practitioner, John focuses his practice on high-stakes cross-border litigation and investigations, as well as high-value judgment enforcement matters, with a particular focus on Latin America.
Jonathan is a litigation partner and chair of Nixon Peabody's Private Funds Dispute practice.
Psychotherapist & Author (Colorado)
Joe's most recent book, 'The Narcissist You Know', includes a chapter that explores the psychology of Donald Trump's particular brand of narcissism.
Principal, Dalrymple Finance (Bulgaria)
Keith has over 15 years experience in investment-driven roles in the financial services industry.
Director, Whistleblower Office (Washington, D.C.)
Lee heads the IRS' Whistleblower Office.
Partner, Bennett Jones (Toronto)
Lincoln specializes in all aspects of fraud, errors and omission claims, securities litigation, commercial arbitration and contractual disputes.
Partner, Campbells (Cayman Islands)
Mark specialises in insolvency, restructuring and investment fund litigation.
Managing Partner, Martin Kenney & Co., Solicitors (BVI)
Martin is perhaps the best-known fraud and asset recovery attorney in the world, having worked on a number of high-profile international cases.
Of Counsel, Anaford AG (Switzerland)
Peter's law practice concentrates on U.S. FATCA and global FATCA compliance for fiduciary and financial services industries and U.S.-related and cross-border tax and succession planning for ultra-high-net-worth individuals.
Managing Director, eShore Ltd. (Cayman Islands)
Polly specializes in offshore IT security and business continuity, as well as Anti-Money Laundering.
Editor, Bloomberg Billionaires (New York)
Robert oversees the compilation of the Bloomberg Billionaires list of the seriously wealthy.
President, Confidential Global Investigations (New York)
A former Senior Prosecutor in the Manhattan District Attorney's Office, Robert is a lawyer and global forensic investigator.
Russell is an insolvency practitioner in the British Virgin Islands.
Partner, Bennett Jones (Toronto)
Ruth specializes in commercial litigation, with an emphasis on fraud, professional negligence, corporate governance, insurance and reinsurance, insolvency, entertainment, health, and intellectual property.
Director of Anti-Corruption Campaigns, Global Witness (London)
An experienced attorney, Shauna heads the Anti-Corruption Campaigns for Global Witness, an international NGO that works to break the links between natural resource exploitation, conflict, poverty, corruption, and human rights abuses worldwide.
Partner, Winston & Strawn (Houston)
Litigation attorney Sheryl Falk specializes in data security, internal investigations, trade secret litigation, and complex commercial litigation.
Senior Associate, Holland & Knight (New York)
Warren specializes in international debt enforcement and cross-border insolvency and has pioneered new asset tracing methods.
Partner, Monfrini Crettol & Associés (Switzerland)
Yves specialises in litigating and coordinating transnational asset recovery proceedings before civil, criminal and bankruptcy courts on behalf of victims of economic crimes, such as fraud and corruption, or parties seeking to enforce their claims, judgments or arbitral awards against assets concealed in Switzerland or abroad.