Sponsors
OffshoreAlert would like to extend a special thank you to sponsors of the 8th Annual OffshoreAlert Financial Due Diligence conference.
- Grant Thornton International
- Kinetic Partners
- Astigarraga Davis
- Martin Kenney & Co., Solicitors
- Invest Barbados
- Cayman National
- Invest SVG
- Kenney & McCafferty, P.C.
- U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement / Cornerstone
- World-Check
- MahanyLaw
- Financial Examinations & Evaluations
- The Bernhoft Law Firm, S.C.
- International Compliance Association
Lead Sponsor
Grant Thornton International is one of the world's leading organizations of independently owned and managed accounting and consulting firms. These firms provide assurance, tax and specialist advisory services to privately held businesses and public interest entities. Clients of member and correspondent firms can access the knowledge and experience of more than 2,400 partners in over 100 countries and consistently receive a distinctive, high quality service wherever they choose to do business.
Grant Thornton member firms in the Cayman Islands, British Virgin Islands, USA, Canada and the UK provide expert services relating to all forms of economic crime using forensic asset tracing skills combined with the powers available under the insolvency, proceeds of crime and company laws in the relevant jurisdictions.
Grant Thornton member firms' economic crime teams comprise forensic, fraud, accountancy, insolvency and tax professionals, supported by computer forensics specialists, who provide expert advice and support at every stage of the discovery, investigation, recovery and prevention processes.
Economic crime practitioners offer unique solutions and have expertise in the following areas:
- asset tracing of misappropriated assets and funds
- fraud investigations that minimise consequences of fraud
- assistance with fraud reporting and presenting findings in Court
- litigation against fraudsters
- asset recovery
- repatriating monies gained from fraudulent and criminal activity
- tracing and freezing the proceeds of crime
- litigation against third parties and professionals who have assisted in perpetrating fraud
- forensic IT to identify and retrieve information held on electronic media
- finding hidden or apparently lost data, and recreating critical computer related communications
- searching and managing e-mails and databases
Grant Thornton member firms have experience in all of the major offshore financial centers including the Caribbean, Dubai, Mauritius, Liechtenstein and many other jurisdictions.
For further information please visit Grant Thornton's website.
Cocktail Reception Sponsor
Kinetic Partners is the only global professional services boutique focused exclusively on the asset management industry. Established in March 2005 as a viable alternative to the ‘Big 4’ and a one stop shop for clients wanting in-depth industry expertise, we provide a truly unique and bespoke solution to both alternative and traditional firms.
Since that time we have grown to approximately 100 professionals across the globe; our current offices in London, Dublin, New York, Grand Cayman and Geneva provide top tier services to an extensive range of clients, including some of the largest firms in the asset management industry, as well as start up ventures, regulators and service providers.
Our service offering includes audit and assurance, tax, consultancy, corporate recovery, forensic investigations, litigation support (including expert services), regulatory risk and compliance, technology and corporate finance.
Distinct core values lie at the heart of our business and our people, ensuring our highly skilled teams are committed to delivering exceptional services:
- FOCUS on recruiting industry experts to ensure a thorough understanding of your issues.
- ADVENTURE to challenge convention and continually strive to find better ways to achieve the best results.
- PASSION for our work, our clients and the industry.
- TOGETHERNESS - we work as one multi-disciplinary team to offer a truly ‘client-centric’ service and are organised around you so that we are more in tune with your requirements.
- ENGAGEMENT in the market and with you – industry experience allows us to understand and address your issues quickly and effectively.
In the current global economic climate, we are working with clients across the asset management world, in particular the hedge fund community, assisting them in evaluating their options and putting their plans into action. Inevitably, while some funds thrive, others will not survive. In response to this, Kinetic Partners has strengthened, and continues to enhance, its corporate recovery and forensic team in the US, UK and offshore, to assist investors, funds, fund managers and service providers facing distressed situations.
Utilising our true global structure, core values and complement of technical and industry experts, we are able to work as one multi-disciplinary team offering a genuinely ‘client-centric’ approach. Our boutique nature makes us less susceptible to conflicts of interest and enables us to act quickly and efficiently where others may not.
These traits have propelled our growth and allowed us to be involved in a number of high profile cases involving funds and other structures which have collapsed due to operational failings or fraud, providing liquidation, litigation support and expert witness services. The operational and legal lessons learnt from these cases have proved invaluable for other clients to whom we provide consulting services.
Cocktail Reception Sponsor
Astigarraga Davis is a boutique law firm with a practice focused on commercial litigation, arbitration and other business disputes. Our commercial litigation strengths include international litigation, international arbitration, financial services litigation including creditors' rights, bankruptcy, and class actions as well as the recovery of assets for defrauded institutions.
Cocktail Reception Sponsor
Martin Kenney & Co., Solicitors is a specialist, multi-jurisdictional investigative and litigation practice. The firm concentrates on the representation of persons harmed by economic crime in a multi-jurisdictional setting. The firm uses a combination of traditional and extraordinary measures to gather, most usually on an emergency basis, evidence of serious forms of wrongdoing, and to recover substantial value in many places concurrently.
Breakfast Sponsor
Invest Barbados is the agency of the Government of Barbados responsible for attracting, winning and sustaining international investment and providing a variety of advisory and facilitation services to companies looking to establish on the island. Headquartered in Bridgetown, Barbados, Invest Barbados has four satellite offices in New York, Toronto and London.
Invest Barbados’ responsibilities spans several sectors including financial services and Barbados is recognised as one of the foremost international business and financial centres in the Western Hemisphere. Investors looking to go global can enjoy incentives and benefit from the tax advantages offered by Barbados’ network of double taxation agreements (DTAs), which includes treaties with Austria, Botswana, Canada, CARICOM, China, Cuba, Finland, Ghana, Malta, Mauritius, Mexico, the Netherlands, Norway, Sweden, Switzerland, the UK, the USA, and Venezuela. Under these agreements, Barbados’ treaty partners may impose preferential withholding tax rates on income repatriated to Barbadian International Business Companies (IBC’s) or International Societies with Restricted Liability (ISRL’s) or preferential tax rates on capital gains realized by Barbadian companies.
Investors in Barbados appreciate the supportive institutional framework for financial services. They value the transparent, stable and secure business environment and they welcome the ready supply of corporate support services available, including experienced banks, investment companies, auditors, lawyers and management firms.
In Barbados, investors will find strong human capital, high-quality infrastructure and tax advantages that enable their companies to thrive in a highly competitive and challenging global marketplace.
Invest Barbados stands ready to provide advisory services on investment opportunities in Barbados. Invest Barbados will also facilitate your start up process and provide post-investment assistance.
To learn more about the investment opportunities in Barbados, contact an office near you.
Breakfast Sponsor
Established in 1974, Cayman National Group comprises of banking, trust & company management, wealth management and insurance.
Cayman National is a public company with its shares now being traded through the Cayman Stock Exchange.
The Group is comprised of: Cayman National Bank Ltd., Cayman National Fund Services Ltd., Cayman National Securities Ltd., Cayman National Trust Co. Ltd, Aon Cayman National Insurance Brokers Ltd, Cayman National Bank and Trust Company (Isle of Man) Limited, Cayman National Fund Services (Isle of Man) Limited, Cayman National Bank Ltd. Oficiana de Representación (Panama) and Cayman National Dubai) Ltd.
As a strong and trusted financial service provider headquartered in Grand Cayman, the Group has been providing personal, commercial and corporate financial services to local and international clients for 35 years, offering expertise with integrated financial solutions delivered through one coordinated relationship.
All-Day Break Sponsor
Invest SVG seeks to attract investment in a range of sectors including International Financial Services. We work closely with the International Financial Services Authority (IFSA) to make St. Vincent & the Grenadines (SVG) a sound choice as your IFC. www.investsvg.com
SVG offers IBCs, Mutual Funds, International Trusts, International Insurance and International Banks. Incentives for operating within the jurisdiction include no capital or inheritance tax; no tax on dividends; a corporate tax of nil or 1% depending on which is the best option for you; and freedom to repatriate profits. International Financial Services are provided by Registered Agents as supervised by IFSA. www.svgifsa.com
Lanyard Sponsor
Kenney & McCafferty (KM) is the most successful tax whistleblower firm in the US, obtaining more rewards over the last ten years than any other firm. KM is now working closely with the IRS Whistleblowers Office on dozens of cases, some of which relate to multi-million dollar off shore banking activities designed to improperly avoid US taxes. KM recently obtained the first major tax reward ($5.5 million) since the formation of the IRS Whistleblower Office. http://tax-fraud.net
Exhibitor
U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) is the largest investigative agency within the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) and is tasked with a broad law enforcement mission related to strengthening the nation’s immigration system, cross-combating border and financial crime, protecting federal facilities and more. With a 17,000-strong workforce, ICE’s presence is seen throughout the United States and around the globe. ICE is committed to serving our nation, protecting our people and securing our future.
Cornerstone, ICE's financial and trade security initiative, is a 21st century approach in identifying and eliminating vulnerabilities within those industries that could be exploited by terrorist and other criminal organizations. Cornerstone is an outreach, training, and partnership based initiative that focuses on protecting the U.S. financial and trade industries through working relationships with financial, trade, manufacturing, and transportation sectors.
Exhibitor
World-Check
Trusted by more than 3,800 institutions in over 160 countries, including 49 of the world’s top 50 banks, World-Check offers an end-to-end solution for assessing, managing and remediating financial, regulatory and reputational risks. World-Check’s global database of heightened risk individuals and entities, Enhanced Due Diligence (EDD) reports, passport verification and country risk assessment tools provide the means to address the full spectrum of risk. For more information, please visit www.world-check.com.
Corporate Partner
MahanyLaw - "Trusted Advisors to the Highly Successful"
MahanyLaw is a results oriented law firm with offices throughout the United States. We assist our clients in protecting their assets, defending their liberty against criminal charges and in recovering monies lost through financial mismanagement and fraud.
Why MahanyLaw?
That's simple - we strive always to be the best at what we do. We strive to be the law firm that becomes synonymous with excellence.
From our billing arrangements to our results to our client communications, we are unique, innovative and successful.
First, we don't sell our time, instead we offer results, solutions, satisfaction, dreams realized, the future, and hope. In short, we partner with you to help you create your own history. At MahanyLaw, alternative billing arrangements are the norm. Our clients are not measured in "billable hours", instead we measure by the successes we can achieve together.
It also means that customers come first. Little things like guaranteeing all calls from clients are returned within one business day. Providing home telephone numbers of our lawyers to each client. And sending meaningful monthly reports detailing our progress and anticipated next steps.
Because we want to help you create your dreams and partner in your success, it also means taking the time to listen to your needs and your vision.
Finally, being different means more than simply mastering the law. We know that when you hire a lawyer you expect someone competent in the law. All good lawyers master the law. To us being the best means we try to shape the law and define its future for our clients.
Give us a call today. Find out how we can make a difference for you. Find out why we are the Trusted Advisors to the Highly Successful.
We can be reached through our website, www.mahanylaw.com or by calling principal member Brian Mahany directly, 414.704.6731
Corporate Partner
Financial Examinations & Evaluations, Inc. is a specialized financial investigative firm that is uniquely qualified to bring clarity to the complexities of financial investigations.
Corporate Partner
The Bernhoft Law Firm's practice focuses on white collar criminal defense (with an emphasis on criminal tax), as well as boutique civil litigation and investment fraud recovery. As reported in The New York Times, of the four most significant criminal tax indictments brought by the government this past decade, the Bernhoft Firm defended three out of those four, and won all three. The Firm also enjoys notable success in First Amendment and civil rights litigation, and has recovered millions of dollars for victims of sophisticated international investment fraud. www.bernhoftlaw.com
Association Partner
International Compliance Association is a professional organisation dedicated to the pursuit of excellence in compliance, anti-money laundering and financial crime prevention. ICA offers internationally recognised professional qualifications that help improve knowledge, enhance skills and minimise risk for firms. For novice and experienced practitioners alike, ICA certificate and diploma programmes are a benchmark of competence and excellence.
Sponsorship
Highlight your company’s work, raise your profile and network with some of the most influential figures in the private and public sectors from around the world who have an interest in Offshore Financial Centers.
To learn more about sponsorship opportunities, please visit:
For more information contact:
Naomi Comerford
Director, Marketing & Sales
Tel: +1 (305) 372-9761
By becoming a sponsor at this event, your company will:
- Increase its visibility with a focused group of senior decision-makers in the AML/compliance, financial services, regulatory and legal industries.
- Reach a target audience of attendees from the Cayman Islands, the British Virgin Islands, the Bahamas, the United States, Canada and 30 other countries from around the world.
- Benefit from unsurpassed networking opportunities with industry leaders in one place at one time.
- Receive complimentary and discounted passes.
- Exhibit its Logo on signage, our Conference website and other conference collateral.
- Have recognition at sponsored functions.*
- Have its promotional materials in each registration packet.*
- Have the opportunity to address delegates through dedicated emails.*
- Gain added exposure though branded water bottles, napkins, mints, pens and other promotional items.*
*Reserved for specific sponsorships only.
Be in the right place at the right time. Gain a competitive advantage and increase your visibility by reaching these industry leaders while they are seeking new and better ways to improve their business.
