Amanda Rigby is a Senior Managing Director and Global Head of Forensics and Investigations with Teneo, based in Chicago.

An accomplished international professional services executive, Amanda has a proven track record of driving growth, operational excellence and innovation across a diverse portfolio. She combines exceptional business acumen with strategic thinking and a high-touch approach to deliver results. Amanda is recognized for transforming business, driving change and building high performance teams with a keen focus on diversity, equity and inclusion.

Before joining Teneo, Amanda was Vice President at Charles River Associates, a global consulting firm specializing in litigation, regulatory, financial and management consulting. In this role, she established the vision, mission and strategic roadmap to develop business solutions and build the Charles River Associates brand within the marketplace. She also collaborated with marketing and third-party partners to elevate the firm’s profile, create a digital presence, identify targets, define methodologies and establish marketing campaigns to successfully elevate the corporate brand.

Prior to her time at Charles River Associates, Amanda spent 17 years at KPMG, most recently serving as a Principal and Practice leader. In this role, Amanda led a team of 750+ professionals in forensic services across the United States and Latin America, serving as the forensic practice leader, One Americas leader and Global Investigations leader.

Amanda holds a Bachelor of Science, Information and Decision Sciences and Finance from the University of Illinois, along with a Corporate Governance Accreditation from Cornell University. Beyond her professional achievements, Amanda is a dedicated community leader. She serves on several boards, including Ready Set GC, the American Cancer Society – Illinois Board, and the YMCA of Metropolitan Chicago (Emeritus). She also plays key leadership roles as the Nomination and Governance Committee Leader for the American Cancer Society and the Co-Chairman of Ready Set GC. Additionally, Amanda is a Chief Founding Member of the National Association of Corporate Directors and the Women’s White Collar Defense Association.

Amanda Wick served as a federal prosecutor for the US Department of Justice (DOJ) for nearly a decade, specializing in money laundering and cryptocurrency. She worked in three US attorneys’ offices (Atlanta, Birmingham, and St. Louis). After that, she moved to Main Justice to serve in the Criminal Division’s Money Laundering and Asset Recovery Session. As part of a DOJ leadership program, she served as a detailee and senior policy advisor at the Financial Crimes Enforcement Network (FinCEN). In 2020, she left the government to serve as the chief of legal affairs at Chainalysis, a blockchain analytics company.

In 2021, Wick returned to government service as the lead financial investigator for the House Select Committee to Investigate the January 6th Attack on the US Capitol. She went on to found and run a global non-profit organization, the Association for Women In Cryptocurrency. The organization aims to build a global network of women and male allies in the cryptocurrency, blockchain, and web3 industries who will advocate for the equal inclusion of women in the future of digital finance.

Wick also serves as a principal with Incite Consulting. In that role, she provides expert and litigation advisory services to law firms and advises a wide range of cryptocurrency-related businesses. She remains a digital nomad living out of a carry-on suitcase and a National Geographic backpack. The Catalysts is her first book.

Andrew read law at Oxford University (New College), where he was President of the New College Law Society, before completing an LLM in Commercial and Corporate Law at University College, London (UCL).  He was called to the Bar of England & Wales in 2004 by Lincolns Inn before undertaking pupillage at a commercial Chambers in Grays Inn.​

He was called to the Bar of the Eastern Caribbean Supreme Court (British Virgin `Islands) in 2013 and has been a Part II Advocate (Full Rights of Audience) at the Dubai International Financial Centre (DIFC) since 2013.  He is also an approved lawyer for the Falkland Islands.​

Andrew's practice for the past ten years has focused on Offshore Commercial Law and to that end he has worked on matters from the Bahamas, Cayman Islands, Anguilla and most prominently the British Virgin Islands.​

He is a past Treasurer of the BVI Bar Association, a Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts (FRSA) and a member of the Honourable Society of Lincoln's Inn.

​Scholarships and Prizes

Somerset Scholarship

The Mary Datchelor Trust Scholarship

Hardwicke Entrance Award, Lincoln's Inn

Finalist, Sir Louis Gluckstein Prize for Advocacy, Lincoln's Inn

Andrew Jackson is a Partner in the Dispute Resolution Practice Group at Appleby in the Cayman Islands.

Andrew practices principally in the fields of corporate insolvency and commercial litigation, and has particular expertise in advising and representing both creditors and liquidators in connection with insolvent liquidations and related clawback claims, acting for shareholders in connection with just and equitable winding up proceedings and related applications for provisional liquidation, conducting appraisal actions arising out of corporate mergers and litigating other forms of shareholder and partnership disputes (principally concerning investment funds).  He also has significant experience of advising on and litigating claims in tort (including for professional negligence and economic torts), for breach of contract and for unjust enrichment, and to enforce foreign judgments and arbitral awards against entities and assets situated within the Cayman Islands.

Andrew is an experienced advocate, having appeared in many substantial and complex cases in the Cayman Islands Grand Court (both with and without leading counsel), and appeals before the Cayman Islands Court of Appeal.

Andy is a partner at Han Kun's dispute resolution department, specializing in litigation and arbitration, cross border dispute resolution, fraud, asset tracing and recovery, foreign judgment and award enforcement, restructuring & insolvency, and in particular he has accumulated abundant experiences in handling corporate disputes as well as investment and financing disputes of private equity funds and assets management institutions.

In terms of international fraud, Andy is one of the few PRC lawyers widely recognized by the international legal community.  Over the years, he has represented Han Kun to author the China chapters for several international publications on fraud and asset recovery, including the Asset Tracing and Recovery Review, Chambers Global Practice Guides - International Fraud & Asset Tracing as well as the CDR Essential Intelligence: Fraud, Asset Tracing & Recovery, where Han Kun is the only law firm from China.

Andy has enormous knowledge and in-depth understanding in his specialized areas, and has represented a number of banks, companies and HNWIs from various jurisdictions and successfully traced and recovered their huge amount of defrauded funds. He is the sole China member of ICC FraudNet, an international network under the auspices of ICC Commercial Crime Services and comprising independent lawyers who are the leading civil asset recovery specialists in each country.

Andy is exceptional in terms of his dispute resolution services, owing to his keen insights into the business needs of his clients.  He maintains close communications with his clients and provides timely feedback, thus enabling his clients to fully understand all aspects of their cases and to make sure that the outcomes satisfy their business demands.  He is skilled in advising on both overall planning and detail-oriented strategies in commercial dispute resolution matters through his clear thinking and forward-looking analysis.  He is dedicated to protecting his clients' interests to the greatest extent through his deep legal knowledge and resourceful connections in China and worldwide.

Based on his distinguished performance in dispute resolution, Andy has been rated by The Legal 500 as a highly recommended dispute resolution lawyer in the Asia Pacific for 2019 and 2021.

Educational background

Andy obtained his LL.B. and LL.M. degrees from East China University of Political Science and Law and Fudan University Law School, respectively.

Practice qualification

Member of the PRC Bar

Working language

Chinese, English

Angela Barkhouse is a Managing Director in the Restructuring practice, based in Grand Cayman. Angela will lead Kroll’s Offshore Restructuring business, where she will also co-lead both Cayman and British Virgin Islands businesses. She leverages more than 20 years of experience in financial investigations, offshore asset tracing and recovery, offshore insolvency, dispute resolution, and data analysis and intelligence.

Angela provides project management and litigation support to locate and repatriate the proceeds of fraud and corruption hidden in foreign jurisdictions. Her broad expertise in financial investigations, asset tracing and dispute resolution provide her with the knowledge to derive practical solutions to seemingly complex cross-border issues. Angela’s clients include governments, law firms, banks, corporations and NGOs. She has led high-profile and complex investigations in bribery, corruption, malfeasance, conflicts of interest, embezzlement, and stolen sovereign wealth and recovered assets for clients and victims of fraud, corruption and misconduct.

Prior to joining Kroll, Angela was a Managing Director at a leading restructuring firm and headed the firm’s Caribbean business. Some of her notable assignments include being appointed to recover assets for 1Malaysia Development, following the loss of USD 7.65 billion from its sovereign wealth fund; acting for a newly elected government in Asia investigating money laundering through the central bank with the collusion of high-ranking members of the former government and government agencies supporting multi-jurisdictional litigation for both criminal and civil proceedings in claims exceeding USD 1 billion. Angela has also acted in a number of legal firsts, including as a Liquidator over the first cryptocurrency insolvency in the Cayman Islands, for a cryptocurrency exchange which reported to have over three million users in 160 countries. She was also a Provisional Liquidator over a BVI Holdco, whose subsidiary in the UAE was alleged to be a Ponzi scheme with investors losing over USD 300 million. The recognition of the BVI Order in the DIFC was a legal first for the UAE and the individuals concerned were sentenced to over 500 years. Angela was also appointed as a Controller (equivalent to Receiver) and Provisional Liquidator over a Cayman Islands brokerage with AUM of USD 80 million to investigate issues of public concern and breaches of the Cayman Monetary Authority Law.

Angela has a long-standing interest in working against corruption and the social inequality that it causes. This has led her to provide additional advisory/take up independent roles outside of private practice, including a role as an Independent Expert on behalf of the UNDP, assessing investigation strategies for the Instance vérité et dignité (Truth & Dignity Commission) in Tunisia, and an advisory role in the strengthening of policies and capacity by the UK’s HMG Fraud Error and Debt Team.

Angela contributes regularly to international discussions on corruption and asset recovery and is also part of the Expert Roster for the Office of Integrity Compliance and Accountability for the Caribbean Development Bank. She has recently co-authored the Cayman Islands chapter in the Law Reviews 11th Annual Insolvency Review publication and is contributing to INSOL educational efforts in asset tracing and recovery.

Angela is recognized as a Global Elite Thought Leader in Investigations and Asset Recovery by Global Investigations Review and Who’s Who Legal, as well as a recommended expert in insolvency.

Angela holds an M.Sc. from London School of Economics in criminal justice policy. She is an ACFE Certified Fraud Examiner and a Fellow FCCA from the Association of Certified Chartered Accountants. She is a Member of Restructuring and Insolvency Specialists Association (RISA) in the Cayman Islands and a Member of the International Association of Restructuring, Insolvency & Bankruptcy Professionals (INSOL).

Benedict Hamilton is a managing director in the Forensic Investigations and Intelligence practice of Kroll, based in the London office. He developed Kroll’s General Investigations team for the EMEA region, specializing in digital investigations, including open source, and the tools and methodologies that enable clients to combat cybercrime, leaks of confidential information, counterfeiting/illicit trade, and cryptocurrencies.

Benedict is currently the global lead for technology and innovation, continuing to develop proprietary tools and techniques for Kroll investigations, particularly around social media analytics and blockchains.

Prior to joining Kroll in 2005, Benedict spent 12 years producing investigative television programs for BBC and Channel 4. He was also nominated twice for Channel 4’s Royal Television Society (RTS) Best Journalism Awards for programs on Northern Irish terrorism and Combat 18.

Benjamin Tsai, the President & Managing Partner at Wave Digital Assets, is a trilingual financial executive with 15 years of proven success in developing global investment solutions for SWF, insurance firms, non-profits, and private banks. He has managed profitable teams in Tokyo, Hong Kong, Singapore, and Taipei, and served as CEO of Merrill Lynch Singapore Commodities.

Subsequently at AllianceBernstein, Ben has served as Senior Portfolio Manager for the alternative investments business across Asia. In addition to his work at Wave Financial, he invests and mentors early stage startups in Southern California. He volunteers at the LA Blockchain Lab, a non-profit connecting academia and government in the field of blockchain technology. He holds a BS in engineering from UC Berkeley, and an MBA from UCLA where he is currently a professor teaching crypto finance.

Courtney focuses on supporting clients with issues of resilience and business continuity in the face of crisis. With over two decades of experience in financial services and consulting, she has helped clients manage continuity of operations through a range of crises, whether related to financial markets, man-made or natural disasters.

At Teneo, Courtney is the President of Teneo Security Risk Advisory, and in addition to managing all aspects of the division, she supports Fortune 500 clients with design and delivery of enterprise security strategy programs, focused on cybersecurity risk management, crisis preparedness and response and cyber crisis communications.

Prior to joining Teneo, Courtney worked for Accenture in the capital markets practice, managing global client account teams. Her project work was primarily in trading and investment banking, specifically managing multi-million dollar projects in operational risk, trading supervision, derivatives trading, middle and back office operations, regulatory reform and organizational design.

Before joining Accenture, Courtney worked for the electronic trading system division of Instinet (INET), formerly known as Island ECN in New York, where she was an account manager for all Island ECN equity trading for US and European based client groups. Before joining Island ECN, Courtney was a market supervisor for fixed income trading at Eurex in Frankfurt, Germany, the electronic trading division of Deutsche Boerse. Prior to Eurex, Courtney was a trade fraud investigator and open-outcry market supervisor for the futures and options markets.

Courtney holds an MS in Cybersecurity Risk & Strategy from New York University, and has completed executive education courses in artificial intelligence and cybersecurity with MIT and Harvard respectively. She also has an MBA from Loyola University in International Business and Finance and holds a BA in Economics and German from Miami University of Ohio. Courtney is a member of the American Council on Germany and serves on the board of Girls Inc. NYC.

DC Page is an expert in risk mitigation and business intelligence.  As the Managing Shareholder, he currently directs worldwide operations for V2 Global.  His experience spans a career including US Customs (now Homeland Security), Managing Director Kroll Associates, CEO of Verasys, and ran consulting and international operations for Andrews International. His focus areas include multi-jurisdictional inquires involving due diligence, litigation support, anti-money laundering, and asset tracing investigations for law firms, financial institutions, and multinational corporations.

With his customs background, DC and his team have assisted many multinationals and sovereigns with anti-counterfeiting, anti-fraud, and illicit trade investigations. Cross-border inquiries are complex and require the integration of multi-dimensional investigators capable of private-public sector liaison.  DC has been able to perfect and replicate such inquiries around the world creating value for corporations and at the same time, results for governments.

In 2017, DC and his business partner Jim Milford founded V2 Global, a business intelligence and crisis management firm specializing in the acquisition and synthesis of actionable intelligence for decision-makers.  Don De Lucca joined the partners shortly thereafter creating a firm with an abundance of business intelligence experts.

In 2003 DC and his partner Jim Milford founded Verasys, LLC. Verasys provided litigation support, worldwide business intelligence, and corporate investigative services. Andrews International acquired Verasys in 2009, when Mr. Page was charged with overseeing all domestic and international consulting operations.

DC was the Senior Managing Director of IPSA International’s Miami office responsible for all management and services in Florida, Latin America and the Caribbean including investigations and security consulting.  At IPSA, he worked on the development of global crisis response programs for multi-national corporations and a multitude of high-profile IP litigation support cases.

Previously, DC was with Kroll Associates, where he was a Managing Director in the company's Miami and Los Angeles offices. After opening Kroll's Miami Latin American Regional office, his practice focused on, complex litigation management, asset searching, business intelligence, intellectual property, and brand protection matters.  DC gained experience of managing cases in the complex international marketplace including corporate contests, transactional due diligence, and related litigation.

Prior to joining Kroll Associates, DC was with the United States Customs Service, now ICE, for more than 10 years where he was a Senior Special Agent in Washington, D.C. and San Diego specializing in money laundering investigations and prosecutions.  Predicate offenses included fraud, counterfeiting and infringement, narcotics, and arms export violations.

As the Assistant to the Commissioner of Customs, DC was responsible for all enforcement matters for the agency in addition to providing liaison with other government bodies such as the Treasury Department, Justice Department, the White House, and Congress.

DC also worked as a special investigator for the State of Wisconsin where he worked in a deep cover capacity infiltrating narcotics and organized crime criminal operations.

Daniel Matthias Coyle, an attorney at Sequor Law, focuses his practice on bankruptcy, creditors’ rights, secured transactions, collections, executions, asset recovery and cross-border insolvency, routinely representing financial institutions and other creditors in bankruptcy and state court litigation.

Daniel has represented clients in commercial loan enforcement cases, including actions for foreclosure of commercial real property and replevin, and suits on notes and guaranties. Additionally, he represents lenders in the negotiation and documentation of workout agreements, loan restructuring, forbearance agreements and loan sale agreements. Daniel has also represented sellers of goods in Uniform Commercial Code Sales of Goods litigation and aggregate bodies of foreign creditors in United States Bankruptcy Proceedings, including obtaining foreign main recognition under Chapter 15 of the U.S. Bankruptcy Code.

Counsel of record for the defendant in Abel & Buchheim , P.R., Inc. v. Citibank, Nat’l Ass’n, 1:16-CV-24663-KMM, 2017 WL 3731002, (S.D. Fla. Aug. 28, 2017), in which the plaintiff sued the bank under a fact-pattern that the bank permitted plaintiff’s former officer/director to transfer funds from the corporate account despite the existence of an injunction.  The depositor sued the bank under theories of aiding and abetting as well as negligence.  The Court dismissed the aiding and abetting counts because the factual assertions in this complaint did not allege that the bank had actual knowledge of the underlying torts or that the bank assisted the former officer/director’s tortious conduct by merely allowing her to withdraw funds from the accounts.  The Court dismissed the negligence claim against the bank because plaintiff’s claims were not for the recovery of bodily injury or property damage and “there is no common-law duty of a defendant in negligence to protect a plaintiff from mere economic losses.”

Daniel was named a “Rising Star” by Super Lawyers in 2016, 2017, 2018 and 2020 and was recognized by Florida Legal Elite in 2021 for Commercial Litigation.  He was a panel member at the 2018 NAFER Conference, “So We Have an Asset Where?”, about discovery and recovery of assets abroad and a speaker at the December 1, 2016 Pincus Professional Education Seminar, entitled “Chapter 11 Challenges: Beyond the Basics” on the topic of Post-Confirmation Litigation.  He is also on the international committee for NAFER.  Daniel co-authored an article with Gregory S. Grossman entitled, “When a Lender Fails, Its Borrower’s Litigation Defenses May Be (D’Oench) Duhmed,” which was published in the January 2013 issue of the Florida Bar Journal.

Daniel was counsel of record for the Foreign Trustee in In re Massa Falida Do Banco Cruzeiro Do Sul S.A., 14-22974-BKC-LMI, 2017 WL 1102814 (Bankr. S.D. Fla. Mar. 23, 2017), which is the first published decision nationwide that a foreign liquidator in a Chapter 15 adversary proceeding may assert US-state-law fraudulent transfer/fraudulent conveyance claims to claw back fraudulent transfers on behalf of the foreign debtor and/or its creditors.  He was also counsel of record for the defendant in Gilbert & Caddy, P.A. v. JP Morgan Chase Bank, N.A., 193 F. Supp. 3d 1294 (S.D. Fla. 2016), which is the first published decision in a Florida state or federal court that a bank, in the deposit agreement, may shorten the time-period for a depositor/customer to report an allegedly fraudulent electronic funds transfer.

Daniel is admitted to practice in the state of Florida, in the United States District Court for the Southern District of Florida, the United States District Court for the Middle District of Florida, the United States Bankruptcy Court for the Southern District of Florida and the United States Bankruptcy Court for the Middle District of Florida. He is a member of the Bankruptcy Bar Association and the American Bar Association as well as the Florida Business Law Section and Florida International Law Section.

David R. Chase is a former SEC Enforcement Attorney who now represents individual SEC whistleblowers in the SEC Whistleblower Program. Mr. Chase has substantial experience in strategically navigating SEC whistleblowers through the whistleblowing process in order to attempt to maximize the likelihood that the SEC will initiative an investigation and, ultimately, bring a successful enforcement action resulting in a financial bounty to the whistleblower. Mr. Chase's institutional knowledge of what type of whistleblower tips the SEC is likely to investigate, and his ability to proactively cooperate his whistleblower clients once an investigation is initiated, is critical to a whistleblower's success.

Mr. Chase began his legal career at Greenberg Traurig, an international law firm in Miami, where he represented securities and financial firms in securities cases and SEC and FINRA investigations. Thereafter, he joined the Enforcement Division of the SEC, where he worked for almost four years, ultimately obtaining the title of Senior Counsel. For part of that time, Mr. Chase served as a Special Assistant United States Attorney in the U.S. Attorney's Office - Economic Crimes Division in the Southern District of Florida. While a Government prosecutor handling exclusively securities fraud cases, Mr. Chase was involved in matters involving insider trading, Ponzi schemes, market manipulations, municipal bond fraud and broker-dealer retail sales practice violations.

Mr. Chase has been appointed by Federal District Court Judges to serve as Receiver in Securities and Exchange Commission and Federal Trade Commission cases, where he was empowered to protect the rights of defrauded securities investors and consumers. Mr. Chase has been published on SEC issues and currently serves as an Adjunct Professor of Law at the University of Miami School of Law where he teaches a course on SEC Enforcement Litigation.

Investigative financial journalist David Marchant owns and operates Florida-domiciled OffshoreAlert, a news, documents, and conference-organizing company that specializes in financial intelligence and investigations, with an emphasis on high-value, cross-border finance conducted in high-confidentiality offshore and onshore jurisdictions.

Since it was launched in 1997, OffshoreAlert has exposed more than 175 investment frauds and money laundering schemes while they were in progress, contributing to their early collapse, and helped law enforcement, regulators, and asset recovery specialists hold those responsible accountable for their actions.

Fraudsters have sued Marchant and OffshoreAlert for defamation in Canada, Cayman Islands, England, Grenada, Panama, and the United States, with several plaintiffs subsequently going to prison, including one for 17 years.

OffshoreAlert is regularly referenced in news articles, books, government reports, TV programs, and movie documentaries about serious financial crime.

Diana is a Principal in Control Risks’ Compliance, Forensics and Intelligence practice in the Americas. With a core focus on business intelligence and integrity risk consulting, she helps clients identify and mitigate risks to their investments, strategies, and operations. Diana has experience with complex, multi-jurisdictional intelligence-driven assignments and has conducted technical training for the Association of Certified Fraud Examiners and the Hong Kong Police.

Recent tasks that Diana has worked on include:

Prior to joining Control Risks’ New York City office, Diana worked for more than eight years in Singapore. She has also worked in the public sector dealing with land and energy security issues in mainland China and Thailand.

Diana holds a double bachelor’s degree in political science and global studies from the University of California-Los Angeles and a master’s degree in international affairs from the Graduate Institute of International and Development Studies in Geneva, Switzerland. Diana is a Certified Anti-Money Laundering Specialists (CAMS) and is fluent in English, with working proficiency in Vietnamese and Chinese.

Edward H. Davis, Jr., a founding shareholder of Sequor Law, focuses his practice on the representation of individual, corporate and institutional victims of fraud throughout the world. Ed conducts financial fraud investigations, prosecutes civil claims for fraud and pursues misappropriated assets, having tracked such funds in jurisdictions across the globe, including Japan, the Bahamas, Latin America, Switzerland and Liechtenstein, among others.

A highly recognized and sought-after leader in his field, Ed is a Certified Fraud Examiner, Inaugural Chair of the Asset Recovery Sub-Committee of the International Bar Association’s Anti-Corruption Committee, and member of other distinguished boards and committees. Under his direction, Sequor Law has established itself as a leading member of the ICC Commercial Crimes Services FraudNet Network.

Ed frequently lectures on financial fraud and corruption to groups ranging from one of the world’s most prominent banks, to associations of certified public accountants and investigative agencies. He also counsels clients in fraud response crises based on his experience handling high-profile cases, including the second-largest Ponzi scheme in world history. Ed also is noted for filing the first Chapter 15 bankruptcy petition in the state of Florida.

Admitted to practice in Florida and before the United States District Courts for the Southern and Middle Districts of Florida and the 11th Circuit Court of Appeals, Ed is a Past Chair of the International Law Section for which he has served as the Chair, Chair-Elect, Secretary and Treasurer as well as on the Executive Council. He is the Founding Chair of its International Litigation and Arbitration Committee; a member of the Bankruptcy Bar of the Southern District of Florida, and a member of the American Bankruptcy Institute and the Florida International Bankers Association. 

Favorite Quote:

“At his best, man is the noblest of all animals; separated from law and justice, he is the worst.” – Aristotle

Glenn Pomerantz is a BDO partner with over 35 years of forensic accounting, auditing and consulting experience and leads BDO’s Global Forensic Practice. Mr. Pomerantz is a Certified Public Accountant and Certified Fraud Examiner specializing in fraud investigations, compliance and due diligence as well as domestic and international dispute resolution.

Mr. Pomerantz leads forensic accounting engagements in the United States and globally where he has built and maintains a network of over 100 BDO member firms performing forensic engagements in a seamless manner.

Mr. Pomerantz provides expert witness testimony in the form of economic damage quantification and analyses including lost profit opinions. He has testified in approximately 100 matters over his 35-year tenure across numerous industries and venues.

He is recognized in “Who’s Who Legal” under Investigations Forensic Accountants and Consulting Experts Forensic Accountants.

Harriet is a partner in Appleby’s Dispute Resolution team and is based in its Cayman office. She joined the firm in November 2024 from another law firm in the Cayman Islands.

Prior to moving to the Cayman Islands, Harriet practised for a number of years as a commercial chancery barrister in London at 11 Stone Buildings and Gatehouse Chambers, and as an attorney in the London office of the US law firm Sidley Austin LLP. She is a specialist advocate and has appeared extensively in the courts of both England and the Cayman Islands (including at appellate level) and before a number of arbitral tribunals.

Harriet’s extensive international commercial litigation and arbitration experience includes a particular focus on corporate insolvency (cross-border and domestic), contractual disputes, civil fraud, asset-tracing and enforcement, shareholder and partnership disputes, banking and finance litigation and fund disputes. She frequently carries out specialist advisory work for some of the world’s largest corporations and investment firms.

Harriet regularly works with the major insolvency practitioners in the Cayman Islands and has acted in some of the most significant litigation in the jurisdiction, including: Re China Shanshui Cement Group, Jafar v Abraaj Holdings, Re Oakwise Value Fund SPC, Re Global Cord Blood Corporation, Re Jian Ying Ourgame High Growth Investment Fund, Re Midway Resources International, BAF Latam Credit Fund, Re Uphold Ltd and RPI v S&P Global, Inc.

Javier Alvarez has over two decades of experience providing forensic accounting, litigation support, compliance, expert witness services, and data analytics work, with a focus on digital assets and blockchain. His work includes in-depth investigations of financial fraud, expertise in the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act, risk assessments, due diligence, anti-money laundering, and regulatory support stemming from BSA/AML/OFAC. He also specializes in asset tracing, specifically the flow of funds within digital assets and traditional fiat currencies.

Mr. Alvarez’s industry knowledge spans across fintech, media and entertainment, professional services, and financial services companies, including significant international experience. His leadership has been instrumental in several high-profile cases across the United States and numerous countries in Latin America, the Middle East, Eastern Europe, Africa, and Southeast Asia.

Over the years, he has developed a deep understanding of digital asset transactions, markets, and processes, including blockchain technology and decentralized finance protocols. His hands-on background includes experience with various crypto asset tracing tools and resources. Notably, Mr. Alvarez has utilized tools such as Chainalysis, Elliptic, TRM Labs, ComplyAdvantage, Acuant (IdentityMind), Notabene, and Jumio.

Mr. Alvarez has advised SEC registrants and privately owned companies on detailed analyses involving asset tracing and the reconstruction of complex financial transactions. He has led matters involving financial and securities fraud, embezzlement, Ponzi schemes, circumvention of internal controls, purchase price disputes, misappropriation of corporate assets, bankruptcy matters, and other accounting-related disputes.

Mr. Alvarez collaborates closely with external legal counsel, in-house counsel, audit committees, court-appointed receivers, and monitors. He effectively presents findings to regulators, including the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC), the U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ), and FinCEN.

I am currently an Assistant Professor of Journalism and Emerging Media Studies in the College of Communications at Boston University. I am the founder of The Critical Internet Studies Institute, a non-profit that develops cutting-edge research and educational programs advancing public knowledge of emerging technologies and the paradoxes of innovation.

In 2023, I blew the whistle on corporate influence over my research program at Harvard Kennedy School.

In 2022, I coauthored a book called, Meme Wars: The Untold Story of the Online Battles Upending Democracy in America, which analyzes how meme culture became an important political communication strategy bridging social movements with contemporary political parties from Occupy to the insurrection.

I am the co-creator of the beaver emoji.

Formerly, I was the Research Director of the Harvard Kennedy School’s Shorenstein Center on Media Politics and Public Policy, where I directed the Technology and Social Change Research Project. Our team researched media manipulation, disinformation, and adversarial media movements.

I was previously the Research Lead for Data & Society’s Media Manipulation Initiative, which mapped how interest groups, governments, political operatives, corporations, and others use the internet and media to disrupt social institutions.

I completed my PhD in Sociology and Science Studies at the University of California San Diego, and was a postdoctoral fellow at the UCLA Institute for Society and Genetics, where I studied white supremacists’ use of DNA ancestry tests, social movements, and technology.

I am available for lectures, workshops, board meetings, and any other consulting activities. Just reach out: Joan@PublicInterestInter.net

Professor John M. Griffin is the James A. Elkins Centennial Chair in Finance at McCombs School of Business, University of Texas at Austin. Dr. Griffin is a leading forensic finance expert, specializing in understanding the role of potentially illegal, illicit, or immoral actions in financial markets. His research has analyzed potential fraud related to cryptocurrencies, PPP fraud, CMBS, CLOs, the 2007-2008 financial crisis, bonds and structured finance products, credit ratings, derivatives, insider trading, market manipulation, investment bank disclosures, financial market anomalies and hedge funds. His papers have won top finance awards and, according to the SEC, he is the second most cited academic in recent SEC rulemaking. He has published over 30 papers in the top finance and economics journals and is widely cited. His recent research has been profiled in Bloomberg, The Wall Street Journal, The New York Times, and over 750 other news outlets around the world.

Professor Griffin is the CEO/owner of Integra FEC, Integra REC, Integra Research Group, and Integra MED Analytics, which specialize in Forensic Investigations. Integra FEC and Professor Griffin have consulted for various entities including the US and state DOJs, the SEC, the CFTC, and other parties. He is a past President and Vice-President of the Western Finance Association, one of the leading finance associations, as well as a past President and Vice-President of the Society of Financial Studies SFS Cavalcade, and a former director of the Financial Management Association and Western Finance Association. He has also been a visiting professor at Harvard Business School, Yale School of Management, and the Hong Kong University of Science and Technology.

Based in Washington, D.C., Kevin Hall joined OCCRP in 2021 as North America editor, overseeing investigations in the U.S., Mexico, and Canada.

Previously, he spent nearly 22 years at McClatchy and the Miami Herald, as the Brazil-based South America bureau chief, a chief economics correspondent, and a senior investigative reporter. In 2004, he won the Society of Professional Journalist’s Sigma Delta Xi award for best foreign correspondence for his investigation into modern-day slavery in the Amazon, tracing the fruits of that labor into the U.S. supply and consumption chain. Kevin was a Pulitzer Prize finalist in 2010 for his reporting on the origins of the U.S. financial crisis and the role played by credit-rating agencies such as Moody’s Investors Service. He shared the 2017 Pulitzer Prize as a lead U.S. partner in the Panama Papers, and was an adviser to the 2018 documentary by director Alex Winter of the same name. In 2021, Kevin and his team won the National Headliner Award for a series about a failed coup in Venezuela and the U.S. security firm involved.

Kevin worked for a decade for the Journal of Commerce, at the time a global newspaper focused on international trade and transportation, opening its Mexico City bureau. He began his career in radio news and later worked at United Press International. He is fluent in Spanish and Portuguese.

Luis is Founding Partner of the law firm Palomino, Flores, Hernandez & Rodriguez Abogados, with offices in Mexico City and Guadalajara.

He has been a trial lawyer since 1996 and specializes in financial restructuring and insolvency proceedings, litigation and negotiations between Partners and Shareholders.

He is a director of various business groups.

Maggie Burtoft is a Principal at Control Risks and heads the eDiscovery Project Management and Consulting practice in the US. She is based in Los Angeles. 

Maggie specializes in providing consulting and litigation support services that use Relativity and Reveal-Brainspace to establish portfolio-wide workflows and ensure that repeatable and defensible processes conform to clients’ standards. Maggie utilizes technology and intelligent workflows to maximize review efficiency and provide auditable, defensible solutions for review reduction.

Examples of Maggie’s recent work include:

Prior to joining Control Risks, Maggie was a Solutions Advisor at ProSearch, where she developed efficient and repeatable workflows catered to client needs and trained internal teams to execute these tasks.

Maggie received her Bachelor of Arts from Tulane University and her law degree from Brooklyn Law School. She is a member of the State Bar of California.

Marlon leads the investigations team at AnotherDay. A former detective from the Flying Squad, an elite unit from New Scotland Yard in London. His main work involves assisting companies in relation to a wide variety of crime and investigation advisory to support internal problems.

Marlon has a wealth of experience in conducting complex criminal and civil investigations and is an expert in covert surveillance methodologies; having been trained to the highest level in the UK, and regularly uses this expertise in his investigations.

Additionally, Marlon is seen as an expert in cryptocurrency investigations after being mentioned in the judgement in the landmark case of ‘Duncan Johns and Ion Science v Persons unknown’.

Marlon’s bespoke approach to investigations makes him favoured amongst many litigators. Marlon understands the importance of working closely with client’s and litigators and has expertise in the management of covert and often highly sensitive intelligence.

He is an expert at turning this information into actionable evidence, and how to avoid issues around disclosure at court. Marlon’s most recent investigations include a complex human rights investigation across S.E Asia, Africa and the Middle East. This involved the handling of human intelligence sources and an extensive analytical review of open-source material to corroborate the intelligence that was gathered.

Marlon and he brings a wealth of knowledge in covert investigative methodology and also the gathering, handling and dissemination of highly sensitive information and intelligence and often works closely with the Intelligence and Risk Consultancy Team here at AnotherDay.

Marlon has also conducted numerous covert surveillance deployments in support of criminal investigations, gathering overwhelming evidence to support a successful prosecution. Marlon is also an expert at technical surveillance, both in his current role and from time spent in specialist police units; Marlon led the covert surveillance investigation in relation to the Hatton Garden heist and numerous multi-million pound theft conspiracies. Marlon understands the complexities of the judicial system globally, and remains diligent throughout his investigations, and with Marlon’s keen eye, detail and passion to investigations, he is yet to lose a trial at court.

Marlon is seen as a global expert in cryptocurrency investigations and holds numerous crypto investigations accreditations including the Chainalysis Investigation Specialist Certification. This allows AnotherDay to track, trace and map out cryptocurrency transactions across the blockchain.

Marlon was the investigator in the recent cryptocurrency landmark case ‘Ion Science Ltd and Duncan Johns v Persons Unknown, Binance Holdings Limited and Payward Limited’ which is believed to be the first ICO fraud case to go before the Commercial Court and it is one of the only cases where the court has granted to serve a free-standing Bankers Trust order out of the jurisdiction against cryptocurrency exchanges.

Marlon is often referred to as ‘a very dedicated and detailed investigator’. He is also described as ‘friendly and approachable’ which has helped him cement relationships with city law firms and large corporates.

Martin Kenney is one of the world’s leading asset recovery lawyers, specialising in multi-jurisdictional economic crime and international serious fraud. He has acted for international banks, insurance companies, individual investors, and other private and governmental institutions.

Based in the British Virgin Islands (BVI), Martin is founder and Head of Firm at MKS Law (previously Martin Kenney & Co). The firm’s work lies at the intersection of cross-border insolvency, creditors’ rights and complex commercial litigation: WIRED styled the firm as among “the world’s sharpest fraudbusters”.

Leading a team of lawyers, investigators and forensic accountants, Martin is widely regarded as a ground-breaker in the use of pre-emptive remedies, multi-disciplinary teams and professional litigation funding in response to global economic crime, uprooting bank secrets and freezing hidden assets in multiple jurisdictions.

He is a practicing solicitor advocate of the senior courts of England and Wales, the Eastern Caribbean at the BVI, at St Vincent and the Grenadines, and a licensed foreign legal consultant in the state of New York.

Martin is also a Visiting Professor at the University of Central Lancashire (UCLan) School of Law and Policing in the UK, and ranked among the world’s leading asset recovery lawyers by Chambers and Partners, as well as being a Lexology Index “Global Elite” Thought Leader.

Michelle Gon is a senior attorney with more than three decades of experience in the Greater China markets. She helps multinational clients deal with knotty and challenging legal issues, having developed a highly-regarded practice focused on cross-border compliance and regulatory matters.

Michelle is a partner of Han Kun Law Offices, based in Shanghai. She focuses her practice on representing clients in complicated and challenging compliance and regulatory matters, including anti-corruption, unfair competition, anti-monopoly, anti-fraud, export control and trade sanction areas. Well respected for her ability to provide clients with her personal devotion and offering practical advice on solving complex legal issues.

Most of Michelle’s clients are leading MNCs doing business in China, or large, China-based MNCs doing business globally, across a wide range of sectors, including pharmaceuticals, medical devices, life sciences, healthcare, agriculture, food-related products, wine and spirits, hospitality, cruise lines, manufacturing, IT and high tech. Before joining Han Kun, Michelle held senior roles at other leading international law firms. She also formerly served as the Chief Legal Officer/Vice President of Semiconductor Manufacturing International Corporation (“SMIC”), and an International Attorney for McDonald’s Corporation, headquartered in Illinois.

Nick is committed to helping clients combat unfair reputational attacks through pre-publication advocacy, efforts to secure retractions and corrections, and if necessary, defamation litigation. Prior to joining Clare Locke, Nick represented a wide array of clients including financial institutions, automotive manufacturers, and energy companies. Nick has substantial experience litigating in state and federal courts throughout the country at the trial and appellate levels, as well as in guiding clients through internal and government investigations.

Prior to and while pursuing his law degree, Nick served as a senior intelligence analyst at the Central Intelligence Agency and the National Counterterrorism Center, where he authored key
assessments for the President’s Daily Brief, served as the daily intelligence briefer for one of President Obama’s top counterterrorism advisors, and received a number of honors. Before that, Nick served as an intelligence analyst at the Federal Bureau of Investigation.

ADMISSIONS

• Commonwealth of Virginia


• District of Columbia


• New York


• U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit


• U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia


• U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York

Paul is the founder and CEO of Quinlan Partners, a global investigations and business intelligence firm based in New York. Prior to that, he spent his career as a journalist reporting both domestically and internationally for a variety of news organizations and publications.

His investigations have uncovered fraud, corruption, and malfeasance at the highest levels of business and government. As a professional investigator, Paul assists leading litigators, investors and corporate decision-makers in gathering critical facts and intelligence and finding hidden evidence and assets in the context of high-stakes and complex disputes, due diligence, and internal investigations.

A former National Press Foundation fellow, Paul has appeared on CNN and been published by The New York Times, National Journal, USA Today, The St. Petersburg Times, The Miami Herald, The Palm Beach Post, Washingtonian Magazine, Salon, and others. He received a B.A. in English from the University of Virginia, where he was an Echols Scholar.

Dr. Ryan Clarke is an internationally seasoned strategic affairs professional with a career which has spanned leadership positions in investment banking (Deutsche Bank and Barclays Capital), technology (full spectrum), critical infrastructure and research institutes. He has resided in Asia for 20 years and is the author of 8 books and over 200 technical reports. He completed his PhD at the University of Cambridge where he was awarded the Salje Medal for the most innovative research

Scott L. Silver is the managing partner of Silver Law Group, a nationally recognized law firm representing investors worldwide to recover their investment losses. Scott has received a Martindale Hubbell Preeminent “AV” Rating, the highest ratings given for general ethical standards and legal ability. Scott has spent his entire legal career practicing securities and financial services law. Scott focuses his law practice on securities arbitration and litigation and plaintiff-side class action litigation, representing individual investors and institutions in claims against brokerage firms, investment advisors, commodities firms, hedge funds and others. Scott also routinely serves as counsel to receivers and trustees in matters relating to the recovery of investor losses in Ponzi schemes.

Scott has extensive experience in arbitration before the Financial Industry Regulatory Authority (FINRA), the National Futures Association (NFA), and the American Arbitration Association (AAA). He has recovered millions of dollars on behalf of aggrieved investors through arbitration and the courts. Scott has represented clients throughout the United States as well as in Europe, South America, Israel and elsewhere.

Scott is a frequent lecturer and author on securities and investment fraud matters, as well as a regular commentator in leading publications. Scott has been invited to lecture at law schools, industry conferences and investor rights groups. In addition, Scott frequently contributes to various publications and has authored numerous articles relating to investors and the arbitration process. Notably, Scott recently wrote a widely accepted primer on the SEC’s new Whistleblower program.

From 2013 through the present, Scott serves as the co-chairman of the Securities and Investment Fraud group of the American Association for Justice. The mission of the American Association for Justice is to promote a fair and effective justice system—and to support the work of attorneys in their efforts to ensure that any person who is injured by the misconduct or negligence of others can obtain justice in America’s courtrooms, even when taking on the most powerful interests. AAJ promotes justice and fairness for injured persons, safeguards victims' rights and strengthens the civil justice system through education and disclosure of information critical to public health and safety. AAJ was formerly known as the American Trial Lawyer’s Association (ATLA). Scott proudly dedicates substantial time to the organization which has bolstered investor rights and advocates for improving the FINRA arbitration system and access to the courts when possible.

Professional Experience

Scott graduated from the University of Miami, School of Law in 1996. Soon after, Scott joined Gusrae Kaplan, a Wall Street law firm founded by a former Chief Attorney of the SEC’s Division of Enforcement, specializing in the defense of brokerage firms in FINRA, SEC, NYSE, and court matters. It is during his tenure at the law firm where Scott learned the strategies employed by brokerage firms to defend against investor claims.

In 2002, Scott relocated to South Florida where he brought his insight and understanding of the inner workings of Wall Street, becoming a named partner in a leading Plaintiff’s firm. In April 2011, the Silver Law Group was formed with a team of litigators, all with experience in the securities industry. Scott still maintains strong ties to New York and regularly represents investors in and around New York through the firm’s New York office.

Scott has served as trial counsel in several cases and arbitrations including a $7 million FINRA arbitration award against former UBS Financial Services, Inc.’s broker Gary Gross in 2009. Scott was awarded the 2009 Daily Business Review’s Most Effective Lawyer award for securities litigation for his work on the Gary Gross case. Scott is an AV rated attorney by Martindale-Hubbell. In 2010 and 2011, Scott was nominated for inclusion in Florida Trend magazine’s Legal Elite. In 2011, Scott became co-chair of the American Association for Justice (“AAJ”) Securities Litigation Group.

Receivership Practice

Scott routinely represents Ponzi scheme victims and others in bankruptcy or SEC receiverships. On multiple occasions, the Receiver has retained Scott to pursue claims on behalf of the receivership. Representations include:

SEC v. Natural Diamonds Investment Co., et al., H.S. Management Group LLC, et al., Case No. 9:19-CV-80633-Rosenberg (U.S. District Court Southern District of Florida) Scott Silver is approved by a federal judge to work as counsel to an SEC receiver on an alleged complex Ponzi scheme involving diamonds and other alternative investments.

Jinyao Liu, et al. v. Project Investors, Inc. d/b/a Cryptsy, et al. , Case No. 9:16-cv-80060-KAM (U.S. Dist. Ct. – Southern District of Florida)

Corporate Monitor v. Gignesh Movalia, et al. , Case No. 13-18620 CA 13 (Miami-Dade County Circuit Court, Florida) As counsel to the receiver, Silver Law Group obtained a substantial recovery for victims from a national brokerage firm.

In re: Certified, Inc., et al., Case No. 09-33115-BKC-RAM (U.S. Bankruptcy Court – Southern District of Florida) As counsel to the receiver, Scott Silver was instrumental in settling a large case against an international bank.

Goldberg, et al. v. D&E Communications, Inc., et al., Case No. 11-cv-22177-WPD (U.S. Dist. Ct. – Southern District of Florida) As counsel to the receiver, Scott Silver brought multiple claims against profiteers for clawbacks of unearned profits.

Professional Recognition

• Legal Elite” by Florida Trend Magazine 2010, 2011


• “AV”® Preeminent™ rating, Martindale-Hubbell 2010


• Florida Super Lawyers 2009


• Daily Business Review’s Most Effective Securities Lawyer 2009


• Multi-Million Dollar Advocates Club


• Co-chair for the American Association for Justice (“AAJ”) Securities Litigation Group


• Scott Silver is a featured speaker at AAJ’s Hot Topics in Business Torts seminar


• Florida Justice Association 2015 Seminar – Business Torts speaker on the ABC’s of FINRA arbitration

Publications

SEC Whistleblower Incentives Under the Dodd-Frank Wall Street Reform Act,
18 PIABA Bar Journal 169 (2011)

Brokerage Firms' Liability When They Fail To Warn About Bad Brokers,
PLI Securities Arbitration, Vol. 1 at Pg. 437 (Aug. 2009)

Non-Customer ‘Customers’ and Compulsory NASD Arbitration,
PLI Securities Arbitration, Vol. 1 at Pg. 601 (Aug. 2002)

Understanding Securities Arbitration
American Association for Justice Trial Magazine (April 2015)

Sean P. Shecter is co-chair of the firm’s Government Investigations & White Collar Defense Practice, chair of the Supply Chain Due Diligence Practice, a member of the firm’s AI committee, and a former federal prosecutor.

He is a trial lawyer, focused on the representation of companies and individuals in connection with the defense of regulatory, white-collar criminal and complex civil litigation matters. Sean has extensive experience representing corporations and individuals in multinational and U.S. regulatory investigations, including those brought by the Department of Justice and the Securities and Exchange Commission.

Overall, Sean is proficient in advising clients on emerging AI regulations and compliance issues, healthcare fraud and abuse matters, including those involving violations of the False Claims Act and Anti-Kickback Statute, OFAC regulations, the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act, anti-money laundering laws, federal and/or state banking laws, U.S. tax and securities laws, privacy laws (GDPR, CCPA, HIPAA), and regulations concerning cryptocurrencies.

Prior to joining Lewis Brisbois, Sean was an Assistant United States Attorney in the Middle District of Florida, the second most populous district in the United States. While at the U.S. Attorney's Office, Sean tried nine jury trials, six as first chair, and conducted investigations into a wide array of federal crimes, including procurement, mail and wire fraud, domestic and international drug trafficking, and money laundering. He also conducted numerous parallel investigations, including with the U.S. Department of Justice's Civil Division involving alleged violations of the False Claims Act and the U.S. Commodities Future and Trading Commission regarding fraudulent transactions occurring on the foreign exchange market.

Prior to working as a federal prosecutor, Sean practiced at two prominent law firms in New York City, where he handled white collar crime and general litigation matters, including high stakes investigations for prominent multinational corporations and financial institutions.

Shan Greer is the Chief Executive Officer of the British Virgin Islands International Arbitration Centre and an international arbitrator, dispute board member and mediator associated with Arbitra International in London. She has over twenty years of experience advising clients on a wide variety of commercial transactions and disputes with specific expertise in construction as well as oil and gas. Known for her practical and commercially sensitive approach, Shan Greer has successfully handled a wide variety of transactions and disputes across multiple jurisdictions in the Caribbean, North America and Europe. She qualified as a barrister and solicitor in England and has a Master’s degree from Kings College London in Construction Law and Dispute Resolution.  She is admitted to practice in Saint Lucia, Saint Vincent and Belize.

Shan Greer regularly acts as an arbitrator, adjudicator and mediator in ad hoc, institutional, international and domestic arbitrations in both civil and common law jurisdictions. She is currently named to the roster of the International Institute for Conflict Prevention and Resolution, the British Virgin Islands International Arbitration Centre, the Dispute Resolution Centre in Trinidad and Tobago, and the Jamaica International Arbitration Centre. Saint Lucia nominated Shan Greer for inclusion in the CARICOM Secretariats List of Arbitrators and Conciliators established under the Revised Treaty of Chaguaramas.

Simon is responsible for leading the investigations team, and assists clients in responding to crime, working alongside lawyers to support a wide variety of litigation, and is an expert in conducting private prosecutions.

Simon was formerly a detective on the elite Flying Squad in London, investigating serious and organised crime, and uses this expertise in complex and covert criminal investigation to assist his clients.