April 27-29,2025
Every significant business or investment decision should be preceded by a comprehensive process of trying to understand what you're contemplating getting into. In other words, don't 'wing it'.
At OffshoreAlert Miami, you will discover powerful databases and techniques to enhance your research, learn how to investigate legally and effectively, hear about trends and developments so you can adapt accordingly, find out measures you should immediately take when problems occur, understand where the risks and opportunities are, and meet wealthy and influential people with whom you can do business.
We have an eclectic mix of senior private and public sector professionals across a broad spectrum within high-value international finance and there are plenty of cocktail receptions, extended networking breaks, and after-parties at nearby fine restaurants to make meaningful connections.
+ 40 Speakers, 16 Sessions, 2 Stages
+ 12 Hours of Networking
+ 3 Cocktail Receptions
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Speakers
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
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).
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.
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.
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.
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
He has worked on investigative projects uncovering abuse of public funding, bankruptcy-repeaters, illegal work conditions on public procurement and large hidden investments of illicit cash in both Pakistan and Dubai.
Flydal was for several years a member of the Norwegian Press Association Committee for transparency and on the The Foundation for Investigative Journalism in Norway (SKUP).
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.
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.
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 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.
Oren Warshavsky serves as co-leader of BakerHostetler's Global Fraud and International Asset Tracing and Recovery team, focusing on multi-jurisdictional proceedings and complex intellectual property matters. Oren has achieved more than $9 billion in monetary recoveries for his clients, obtained injunctive relief in numerous cases and successfully defended clients in defeating claims asserted in federal and state courts for complex commercial matters, patent, trademark, copyright, bankruptcy, asset recovery matters and commercial disputes.
He has been an integral part of the team representing the trustee of the Securities Investor Protection Act (SIPA) in the liquidation of Bernard L. Madoff Securities. Oren has overseen and worked with teams of lawyers in the United States and around the world to trace and recover assets; the recovery has been unprecedented, totaling more than $13 billion dollars. The protracted, decades-long investigation and recovery in dozens of related international cases has demonstrated Oren's ability to work diligently and resourcefully across multiple jurisdictions.
Oren’s proficiency as an attorney has won him accolades, including being recognized by Chambers USA, The Legal 500 (both for intellectual property and international litigation), and Best Lawyers in America®. Oren has been voted among the Top 100 attorneys in New York on numerous occasions, and his cross-border, asset-recovery accomplishments have earned him recognition in Who’s Who Legal in Asset Recovery -- one of only 36 attorneys in the United States to have achieved this honor.
Select Experience
- Attorney overseeing U.S. and global teams tracing and recovering billions of dollars in misappropriated assets and related litigation linked to the decades-old Bernard Madoff Ponzi scheme, including matters against the Herald Fund, the Thema Fund and others, which has resulted in billions of dollars in recoveries.
- Served as a lead lawyer in the complex representation of the former London-based JPMorgan Chase managing director, nicknamed "the London Whale" by the media, in investigations conducted by the DOJ, the SEC and the CFTC, related to a multibillion-dollar trading loss for the bank. Developed an understanding of complicated credit derivative instruments in order to effectively represent the client. Through the mastery of complex facts, the application of government investigations experience and a multidisciplinary approach, the team developed a strategy to navigate the client through parallel U.S. and U.K. investigations. The team secured a rare non-prosecution agreement with the Justice Department, and agreements with the SEC and the CFTC, including one of the first non-prosecution agreements executed by the CFTC for an individual director whose cooperation was sought in an investigation into a multibillion-dollar trading loss for the bank.
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)
He is an English barrister, specialising in high-value international commercial litigation, in particular fund disputes, banking, insolvency and restructuring, fraud and asset-tracing, professional liability, and contentious trust disputes. He has represented clients in many of the most significant Cayman cases in his practice areas in recent years, including acting for clients in relation to the collapses of Weavering, Abraaj, Bear Stearns, 1MDB and Highland Capital Management.
Before joining Appleby he practised from Fountain Court Chambers, one of the English Bar’s “magic circle”, where he remains a door tenant. A highly experienced advocate, he leads teams handling substantial applications and trials before the Cayman courts, representing clients across all aspects of Cayman financial services, including hedge funds and their directors, fund managers, banks, law firms, trustees, companies, directors, shareholders, GPs and LPs of exempted limited partnerships, creditors of distressed Cayman entities, corporate bond-holders and their trustees, liquidators, and receivers.
Most of his experience is in complex cross-border cases, involving heavy Cayman litigation requiring strategic co-ordination with legal teams at leading on-shore law firms and chambers (in particular in London, New York, Hong Kong, Florida, California, Delaware, Connecticut, Dubai, and Brazil), often working alongside leading insolvency, funds, banking and trust professionals in Cayman, as well as Appleby colleagues in the other major offshore jurisdictions.
Sebastian’s current or recent clients include: BDO, Butterfield, Cayman National, The Commissioners of Her Majesty’s Revenue and Customs, Fund Fiduciary Partners, Goldman Sachs, HSBC, Mr Lau Chun Shun, and Nordic Trustee. At various times he has also acted for: Aspinall’s Club, Bank Julius Baer, Barclays, Gazprom, Generali, HBO, ISS, KPMG, Lloyds TSB, Man Financial, NatWest, NML Capital, Northern Rock, Pokerstars, Queen’s Park Rangers FC, Rawlinson & Hunter, RBC, RBS, Saipem, Sberbank, and the Solicitors’ Regulation Authority.
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.
2025 Agenda
Networking
Oceanside Cocktail Party
Starr Bar
Networking
Networking Breakfast
Salon 3
General
Opening Remarks
Salon 1 & 2
David Marchant
Founder, Owner & Editor
OffshoreAlert
General
TBA
Salon 1 & 2
Networking
Networking Break
Salon 3
General
TBA
Salon 1 & 2
Networking
Networking Lunch
Starr Bar
Artificial Intelligence
Breakout
Investigations
It's Unavoidable & Unstoppable: How Artificial Intelligence Is Changing Everything
Salon 1
Warren Gluck
Partner
Holland & Knight
Breakout
Intelligence Briefing: China
Salon 2
This session will provide guidance for foreign firms operating or intending to operate in China, including Foreign Consultancy and Due Diligence Firms, and foreign investors who are contemplating investing in Chinese entities.
Topics will include China's Counterespionage Law and other laws, rules, and practices involving data, information, and privacy, and compliance.
Andy Liao
Partner
Han Kun Law Offices
Michelle Gon
Partner
Han Kun Law Offices
Breakout
Investigations
Global Data Broking: What's Available (Legal & Illegal)
Salon 1
This session will analyze the opaque world of global data broking, look at what's available, how much it costs, and discuss legal issues.
Breakout
Intelligence
Offshore
Intelligence Briefing: British Virgin Islands
Salon 2
This session will look at international business-related issues and developments in the British Virgin Islands, including those involving disputes, litigation, insolvency, investigations, privacy, asset recovery, legislation, transparency, politics, financial products and services, and innovation.
Andrew Emery
Partner
Emery Cooke
Martin Kenney
Managing Partner
Martin Kenney & Co (MKS)
Networking
Networking Break
Salon 3
Breakout
Intelligence
Investigations
Utilizing Investigators & Intelligence Specialists to Win Disputes & Locate Assets
Salon 2
This session will analyze how litigants and litigators can utilize international investigators and intelligence specialists to improve their chances of winning litigation and recovering value.
Topics include:
- Understanding Leveraging International Investigators;
- Intelligence v Evidence (Advantages, pitfalls, processes, issues to be aware of);
- Utilizing alternative investigation tools for asset location (accessing GEO data mapping from phone apps, leveraging leaked data, covert enquiries, social engineering). Legal considerations and how do Courts view this?; and
- Strategy, appetite, process, considerations for pre and live litigation investigation.
Breakout
Intelligence
Offshore
Intelligence Briefing: Cayman Islands
Salon 2
This session will look at international business-related issues and developments in the Cayman Islands, including those involving disputes, litigation, insolvency, asset recovery, legislation, transparency, politics, financial products and services, and innovation.
Angela Barkhouse
Managing Director, Restructuring
Kroll
Sebastian Said
Partner
Appleby
Networking
Oceanside Cocktail Party
Starr Bar
Networking
Networking Breakfast
Salon 3
General
Crypto Investigations, Recovery & Management
Salon 1
In this session, leading experts in an industry where fraud is rampant will offer tips and guidance on how to investigate, recover, and manage crypto.
Networking
Networking Break
Salon 3
Breakout
Investigations
Recovery
Investigations & Recovery: Ask Me Anything (Part One)
Salon 1
Leading international fraud and value recovery specialists discuss emerging and dominant issues that impact your ability to be successful and effective. This session is intended to be informal and interactive and represents an opportunity for you to have your questions answered by experts who have 'been there, seen it, done it'.
Courtney Adante
President
Teneo Risk Advisory
Edward H. Davis, Jr.
Founding Shareholder
Sequor Law
Luis Palomino
Managing Partner
Palomino, Flores, Hernandez, Abogados
Breakout
Whistleblowing
Whistleblowing Guide: Crypto, Tax & Other Types of Fraud
Salon 2
Whatever your thoughts on the pros and cons of crypto, it should be undeniable that the industry is rife with fraud, which means there are ample opportunities for whistleblowers to cash in.
This session will look at the various whistleblower rewards programs that are available to people who work in crypto and other financial sectors, the protections they offer, and a guide to filing claims.
It will also look at financial and emotional support services that can help whistleblowers get through an experience that is often isolation and confusing.
David Chase
Managing Partner
Law Firm of David R. Chase
Glenn Pomerantz
Partner, Global Forensics Practice Leader
BDO
Scott Silver
Managing Partner
Silver Law Group
Networking
Networking Lunch
Starr Bar
Breakout
Investigations
Recovery
Investigations & Recovery: Ask Me Anything (Part Two)
Salon 1
Leading international fraud and value recovery specialists discuss emerging and dominant issues that impact your ability to be successful and effective. This session is intended to be informal and interactive and represents an opportunity for you to have your questions answered by experts who have 'been there, seen it, done it'.
Amanda Rigby
Senior Managing Director
Teneo
Oren Warshavsky
Partner
BakerHostetler
Breakout
Investigations
All Roads Lead to Dubai: How To Investigate Property Ownership in a Money Launderer's Paradise
Salon 2
In recent years, Dubai has emerged a leading international financial center and, in doing so, has become a haven for financial criminals, including fraudsters, money launderers, narcotics traffickers, and corrupt politicians.
Fueled by a new leak of property records, 'Dubai Unlocked' is an investigative project involving more than 70 media outlets around the globe that shines the brightest light yet on the owners of real estate in the jurisdiction.
This session will discuss the project's damning findings and show investigators how to access and analyze the project's data to uncover who owns what in the jurisdiction.
The session will be followed by an informal workshop in a separate room for those who want to know more and have a hands-on learning experience.
Eiliv Frich Flydal
Investigative Journalist
VG/E24.no
Breakout
Reputation
System Abuse & How to Fight It: Sanctions, Red Notices & Black Lists
Salon 1
This session will look at how individuals, companies, and countries have been unfairly added to sanctions and financial black lists or had arrest warrants issued against them for politically-motivated or other reasons and discuss what can be done to have them removed.
Breakout
Investigations
Understanding Data & Information: The Art of Analysis
Salon 2
Networking
Networking Break
Salon 3
General
Intelligence
Investigations
Terrorism
Intelligence Debrief: Exploding Pagers & Walkie-Talkies
Salon 1 & 2
This session will look at the planning, execution, and impact of the extraordinarily sophisticated attacks on the militant group Hezbollah using exploding pagers and walkie-talkies.
General
Closing Remarks
Salon 1 & 2
David Marchant
Founder, Owner & Editor
OffshoreAlert
Networking
Closing Happy-Hour
Lapidus Bar
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"It's like that famous bar in 'Star Wars', where they all come together - the good guys, the bad guys, the seriously guilty - and they all exchange information on neutral territory."Jack Blum, financial crime lawyer, Washington, D.C., describing our event in The Wall Street Journal in 2009.