OffshoreAlert Conference attracts world's top fraud and asset recovery experts
By OffshoreAlert, April 07, 2010
The world's leading fraud-busters and asset recovery experts will gather in Miami Beach in three weeks to discuss the latest trends, techniques and issues affecting their industry.
Speakers include those who are at the forefront of the world's biggest investigations into serious financial crime, including those involving Bernard Madoff and Allen Stanford.
Among them are attorneys Martin Kenney and Ed Davis, who specialize in locating, freezing and seizing criminal proceeds that are concealed in multiple jurisdictions, including offshore financial centers.
Based in the British Virgin Islands and Miami, respectively, Kenney and Davis have become the go-to attorneys for many victims of high-value frauds and corruption.
Ed Davis
Davis recently helped to recover more than US$35 million on behalf of a Caribbean government regarding corruption under a previous administration.
Meanwhile, the international, asset-hunting exploits of Kenney have been so well-publicized by the world's media in recent years that he has achieved celebrity-status within the industry.
So many cases are being pitched to him that Kenney is currently seeking to expand his case-load by teaming up with a US-based private equity group in an attempt to raise $150 million for an investment fund called Echemus that will finance future asset-recovery efforts.
"Many victims have nowhere to turn to recover assets, and corporations or governments often lack the incentive or the political will to prosecute perpetrators, who might be former high-ranking officials from their own organizations," says Kenney.
Martin Kenney
"To unravel the world’s largest and most complicated frauds, and to recover the assets for victims requires an array of forensic accountants, investigators and specialized law firms," he said. "Echemus will provide fraud victims the financial and human resources they need to mount such an operation, in exchange for a portion of the assets recovered."
Kenney and Davis will be joined by fraud and asset recovery experts from onshore and offshore jurisdictions at The 8th Annual OffshoreAlert Financial Due Diligence Conference, in association with Grant Thornton, which will take place at The Ritz-Carlton, South Beach on May 2-4, 2010.
The conference will focus on Offshore Financial Centers, Fraud & Asset Recovery, Money Laundering & Compliance, and Investigations & Intelligence and will be attended by more than 300 people from over 30 countries.
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