Please join us for a panel debate on asset recovery and international cooperation in fraud cases. Following this seminar, we encourage you to take advantage of this unique networking opportunity with complimentary refreshments. Please click here to register.
Our speakers for the debate are:
Stephen Hellman, Puisne Judge, Bermuda
Mr Stephen Hellman was appointed to Bermuda’s Supreme Court as a Puisne Judge with effect from 4 September 2012 for a period of five years.
Mr Hellman was called to the Bar of England & Wales in 1988 and is a member of the Inner Temple. He has served on the England & Wales Bar Standards Board’s Professional Conduct Committee for the past three years.
Mr Hellman’s main area of practice has been in the field of criminal law, with a recent emphasis on asset confiscation and financial crime. He also has wide offshore civil and commercial litigation experience from working in private practice in the Cayman Islands and Guernsey.
Cosimo Borrelli Borrelli Walsh, Hong Kong
Cosimo Borrelli is a Chartered Accountant with over 20 years of experience in formal and informal corporate restructuring, insolvency, forensic accounting and financial investigations. This experience has included being appointed by courts (as liquidator or scheme administrator), lenders and financiers, distressed companies, secured and unsecured creditors, investors and other interested parties. He has a proven track record in establishing and delivering restructuring, insolvency and related corporate advisory arrangements in industries including financial services, property, tele-communications, retail, manufacturing, and professional services.
Cos’ assignments often have a cross border focus including work in Hong Kong, PRC, Singapore, Taiwan, Malaysia, Australia, United States, United Kingdom, Europe, Bermuda, British Virgin Islands, Cayman Islands and the Bahamas and involving the restructuring of private and large publicly listed groups, the investigation and valuation of loan and non-performing loan portfolios for banks and non-bank institutions, the location, retrieval and sale of assets throughout the world, the improper enforcement of security, audit and director negligence and fraud.
Cos’ investigation and forensic background plays a key role in the analysis and execution of restructuring and associated assignments and his wealth of commercial experience means he is well suited to establishing and implementing solutions to complex problems and disputes
James H. Power, Holland & Knight, New York
James H. Power practices in the areas of international law, admiralty law, transportation law, environmental law, public law and general civil litigation. He focuses generally on marine casualties, cargo cases, charter party disputes, maritime liens, government bid protests, marine pollution, seamen’s claims and variety of other maritime and non-maritime matters. Mr. Power has extensive experience handling large complex litigation cases and is presently Senior Counsel on the multi-billion dollar oil pollution spill case involving the vessel Prestige on behalf of the Kingdom of Spain. He has argued motions in numerous Federal and State Courts and has represented clients in federal mediation and in maritime arbitrations. Mr. Power has conducted numerous onboard investigations for both civil and criminal claims against vessel interests.
Mr. Power assists lenders and buyers in the sale and acquisition of vessels and advises parties on various maritime and regulatory aspects involved in such transactions. He represented the secured lender in the high profile Millenium Seacarriers bankruptcy. Representation in this multi-tiered litigation involved a series of successful maritime lien priority judgments favorable to the secured lender.
Prior to entering practice, Mr. Power worked as an engineer in the maritime industry and as a licensed engineering officer onboard U.S. merchant vessels. Mr. Power is currently a Lieutenant in the United States Naval Reserve. Mr. Power is serving as Treasurer of Holland & Knight’s political action committee (PAC).
Dan Wise, Martin Kenney & Co, BVI
Dan Wise qualified as an English solicitor in 1994 and became an English solicitor advocate in 2006. He joined Martin Kenney & Co. in June 2005 and was admitted as a solicitor in the BVI in October 2005, and as a BVI solicitor advocate in December 2006. Mr. Wise has been admitted to practice before the courts of St. Vincent and the Grenadines as a solicitor-advocate; and before the courts of St. Kitts, also as a solicitor advocate, on a limited basis for certain cases.
A significant amount of Mr. Wise’s work involves obtaining disclosure and freezing orders in various offshore jurisdictions, including BVI, the Cayman Islands, St. Kitts, Antigua, Belize, Anguilla and St. Vincent and the Grenadines. Mr. Wise has considerable experience in the offshore components of FSU “oligarch” disputes, in US disclosure under 28 US Code 1782 and insolvency recognition, under Chapter of the US Bankruptcy Code where he works with U.S. counsel; and in the operation of Nevisian trusts. Mr. Wise led the successful application in Antigua to remove and replace the former joint liquidators of Stanford International Bank; and has led the litigation team in Antigua on behalf of the joint liquidators, since their appointment.
Throughout his career, Mr. Wise has gained substantial experience with complex multi-jurisdictional litigation, including the investigation of fraud in the commodities markets. He has acted for clients with interests in the Czech Republic, Slovakia, Kazakhstan, Moldova, Nigeria, the United States, the Middle East, Monaco, and Belgium.
In 2012 and 2013 Mr. Wise was elected to serve as the First Vice President of the BVI Bar Association.
Mr. Wise holds a BA (Hons) in History and Politics, from the University of London. Prior to becoming a lawyer Mr. Wise served for four years as an Infantry officer in the British Army.
Margot MacInnis, KRyS Global, Cayman Islands
Margot is an experienced leader and professional insolvency practitioner in the Cayman Islands with a background in financial services particularly in banking and alternative investments. She is responsible for the day to day operations and leading the Cayman practice of KRyS Global.
Margot acts as a liquidator in compulsory and voluntary insolvencies, and directs specialized engagements involving asset tracing, forensic analysis and valuation assignments. Her experience is primarily in cross border insolvency projects in Asia, Europe and Africa involving multi jurisdictional issues and regulations. Ms MacInnis has worked with liquidation committees, creditors, investors and their advisors and her practical experience and energetic and creative vision brings results to clients.
Margot is a Chartered Accountant, Certified Anti-Money Laundering Specialist and a Certified Fraud Examiner. She is currently a member of the New Brunswick Institute of Chartered Accountants and the Cayman Islands Society of Professional Accountants.
Penny Cassell, KRyS Global, Cayman Islands
Penny joined KRyS Global in 2012 as a Fellow of the Institute of Chartered Accountants in England and Wales and a Licensed Insolvency Practitioner with over 20 years experience in asset recovery and forensic assignments in a wide range of cases working with both the private and public sectors. She has regularly worked with cases involving criminal prosecutions, regulatory matters and civil litigation.
In the UK Penny has been instructed in a number of high-profile cases as receiver, forensic accountant and expert witness. This includes the largest confiscation order in the UK and related complex inter-jurisdictional issues. She has acted as expert witness in confiscation matters and civil litigation. Penny spent most of 2007 on secondment to the Serious Fraud Office in the UK.
Penny is a regular presenter at conferences and is contributory author to Law: Fraud, Practice and Procedure and International Asset Tracing in Insolvency. She is a member of the Association of Business Recovery Professionals (R3) Fraud Group and deputy chairman of the Fraud Advisory Panel Asset Recovery Working Group.
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