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.

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

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.

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.

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.

David is a partner of Appleby’s Dispute Resolution team and is based in its Cayman Office.

David has substantial experience in commercial litigation, investment fund disputes and insolvency matters. His practice focuses on major, complex, cross-border disputes and insolvencies, with a particular interest in fraud and asset recovery. David has acted in some of the largest and highest profile investment fund disputes in the Cayman Islands in recent years.

David regularly advises clients on all aspects of arbitral award enforcement, on both the creditor and debtor side. David has particular experience of complex multi-jurisdiction enforcement exercises, including identifying assets.

David has significant experience of insolvency matters, and regularly acts for petitioning creditors, JOLs, LCs, secured creditors and unsecured creditors.

Prior to joining Appleby, David was a partner with Norton Rose Fulbright where he was a partner in each of their London, Hong Kong and Dubai offices. David has maintained his links to Hong Kong and work originating from Asia forms a substantial part of his practice.

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.

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.

Heidi is the Head of Special Operations at Wave Digital Assets, an SEC-registered investment firm specializing in digital assets, where she supports Web3 protocols, crypto bankruptcies, and government agencies with crypto exposure. She is a member of the Wyoming Stable Token Commission, the Digital Dollar Project, and the Arizona Blockchain Commission. Previously, she served as President of GBBC Giving, empowering underserved communities with blockchain access, and co-founded PoA, a platform equipping artists with digital tools. Heidi played a key role in launching Blockchain@UCLA and the Los Angeles Blockchain Lab, initiatives that advanced blockchain education and policy, including programs supporting women worldwide, such as in Afghanistan. She has served on advisory boards including the VanEck Digital Assets Initiative at USC, Innovate@UCLA, and the Female Advisory Board for Lamborghini, and was an Honorary Co-chair of the U.S. Trade Missions Blockchain initiative for the U.S. Department of Commerce. A sought-after Web3 educator, she has provided insights to leading firms like Lionsgate Entertainment and Sony. Among her proudest achievements, she helped multiple Afghan women and their families flee the Taliban using crypto. Prior to her blockchain work, Heidi specialized in business transformation, scaling distressed assets into national firms and leading sales teams for companies such as AIG. She holds an MBA from UCLA Anderson School of Management.

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.

Luis is Managing Partner of the law firm 'Palomino, Flores, Hernandez, 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.

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 managing partner of Martin Kenney & Co (MKS). The firm’s work lies at the intersection of cross-border insolvency, creditors’ rights, and complex commercial litigation.

Today Martin is ranked among the world’s leading asset recovery lawyers worldwide by Chambers & Partners, and is considered one of Who’s Who Legal (WWL) 2021 global elite Thought Leaders. From 2017-19 he was ranked as the world’s number one asset recovery lawyer offshore by WWL.

He is the recipient of the highest award given by the Association of Certified Fraud Examiners, with 85,000 members worldwide, The Cressey Award, in 2014.

Martin is a practising solicitor advocate of the senior courts of England & Wales and the Eastern Caribbean at the BVI and at St Vincent & the Grenadines; and a licensed foreign legal consultant in the state of New York.

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 has published and lectured on money laundering, legal and ethical restraints on the conduct of private investigations, and international concealed asset recovery.

He is also a founding member of an elite network of asset recovery lawyers, ICC FraudNet, 84 leading fraud and asset recovery lawyers from 71 countries, which is administered by the Commercial Crime Services division of the International Chamber of Commerce.

Martin has received numerous plaudits for his work. WIRED characterised his firm as “the world’s sharpest fraudbusters”, while The Financial Times deemed him a “top international asset chaser”.

The Canadian Lawyer magazine of Toronto added that: “Mr. Kenney just may be, considering his Robin Hood reputation and his bulldog legal tactics, one of the most determined and trusted lawyers around.”

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.

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)

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.

Warren E. Gluck is a New York litigation attorney, trial lawyer, and a member of Holland & Knight's Litigation and Dispute Resolution practice. Mr. Gluck focuses his practice on litigation, fraud investigation, insolvency, asset recovery and judgment enforcement, as well as admiralty law. He has experience in all aspects of the litigation process and routinely acts as lead counsel on litigation, judgment enforcement, fraud, cross-border insolvency, asset tracing and shipping matters. Who's Who Legal says "Warren Gluck is a 'strong litigator' who is always 'two steps ahead' in high-stakes, multijurisdictional asset recovery proceedings." The guide also notes that he "has an intimate understanding of the nuances of the laws of multiple jurisdictions," "is very practical and pragmatic" and "implements practical solutions and workarounds that allow [clients] to remain on course."

He has developed an extensive practice representing domestic and foreign officeholders in connection with parallel civil and criminal proceedings brought by the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) and the U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ), and has extensive experience negotiating resolutions amounting to hundreds of millions of dollars.