If you provide products and services that help financial institutions and service providers manage risk, comply with the law or improve efficiency and effectiveness then OffshoreAlert is ready to help you maximize your company’s exposure and to get your firm's message out to this ready-to-buy but notoriously hard-to-contact market at our event, which has ample networking and face-to-face opportunities for your teams to meet prospective buyers!

 

For information on sponsorship & exhibitor packages contact Leigh Rose at lrose@offshorealert.com or on 1-305-851-2602 or download the 2009 Sponsor & Exhibitor Prospectus.

The 7th OffshoreAlert Conference is brought to you by:

• Grant Thornton Ruby Sponsor
• World-Check Emerald Sponsor
• Cayman National Sapphire Sponsor
• VP Bank Opal Sponsor
• Martin Kenney & Co., Solicitors Cocktail Reception Sponsor
• Kinetic Partners Cocktail Reception Sponsor
• Astigarraga Davis Cocktail Reception Sponsor
• Invest Barbados Cyber Cafe Sponsor
• The Bernhoft Law Firm Lunch Sponsor
• BDO Consulting, a division of BDO Seidman Lunch Sponsor
• Stuarts Walker Hersant Printed Media Sponsor
• Kroll Breakfast Sponsor
• Chris Johnson Associates Ltd. Breakfast Sponsor
• Cayman Islands Financial Services Association Scrolling Storyboard Sponsor
• Krys & Associates Cayman Ltd. Refreshment Break Sponsor
• WestTel Refreshment Break Sponsor
• Verasys LLC Lanyard Sponsor
• NominoData Totebag Sponsor
• OffshoreAlert Newsletter Official Conference Publication

Ruby Gem 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, Lichtenstein and many other jurisdictions.

 
For further information please visit our website

Emerald Gem Sponsor

Since its establishment in 2000, World-Check has been at the forefront of Know Your Customer intelligence and has taken the lead in providing regulated industries with innovative services and tools to help meet their regulatory and risk management requirements.

 

Identified by MMC/Kroll as the clear “best of breed” as early as 2003 and as the market leader by Gartner Group in November 2004, World-Check currently provides its global open- source intelligence database to more than 3000 institutions in 162 countries, including 47 of the world’s 50 largest banks and more than 200 enforcement and regulatory agencies. Its database and tools find direct application in financial compliance, Anti Money Laundering (AML), Know Your Customer (KYC), PEP screening, Enhanced Due Diligence (EDD), fraud prevention, government intelligence and other identity authentication, employee background screening and risk prevention procedures.

 

The World-Check database covers heightened-risk individuals and entities from more than 24 categories, including money laundering, fraud, organized crime, terrorism and sanctioned entities. As a separate specialist area of coverage, World-Check’s PEP intelligence is unparalleled, including PEPs from every country in the world, as well as relatives, middlemen and companies associated with them.

 

World-Check’s substantial investments in technology and human capital bears testimony to its commitment to providing institutions with the intelligence and tools they need.But no company becomes the best in the business overnight. It takes:

• Operational centers across multiple continents, functioning on an uninterrupted 24/7 basis to cover all countries and time zones for emerging risks. World-Check covers 240 countries and territories worldwide.
• More than 150 specialised, full-time researchers collating intelligence in more than 35 languages. Each month 20 000 to 22 000 new profiles are added, and 32 000 to 34 000 profiles updated each month.
• A highly specialised Terrorism and Insurgency Research Unit (TIRU) tracking and profiling terrorists, insurgents and their financial networks. World-Check’s database contains more than 31 000 terrorism-related profiles, compared to a total of  approximately 954* unique terrorism-related entries included in the four most authorative lists (US OFAC, EU, UN and UK HMT).  
• Expertly trained PEP research specialists.
• A dedicated OFAC and Sanction List Unit to monitor all official lists and ensure that World-Check is updated daily. World-Check has identified high-risk individuals and entities ahead of OFAC on more than 225 occasions in the last three years.
• A dedicated Data Quality Control team to ensure the “cleanliness” and meticulous structure of the data. This data integrity safeguard is vital to ensure glitch-free automation of risk screening processes.
• A team of more than 25 dedicated IT professionals that ensures the service is enhanced on a regular basis to meet the demands and requirements of the industry: Dynamic Downloads, Multiple reporting capabilities, Relationship Network Display functionalities, News-Check, Passport-Check, Country-Check, anonymous name reporting, in short, the ceaseless pursuit of excellence and innovation.

 

More than 19 million names were checked using World-Check’s
Online Service during 2007 alone.

 

Visit www.world-check.com for further information.

Sapphire Gem Sponsor

Corporate Profile

 

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.

 

www.caymannational.com

Opal Gem Sponsor

VP Bank Group is an internationally active private bank. With more than half a century of experience in private banking, we are experts in all aspects of asset management and investment advice.

The VP Bank Group develops convincing, personalized solutions: its staff of more than 700 employees throughout the world see to the management of client assets totaling approximately 40 billion Swiss francs – exactly the right size to make available the necessary resources, yet small enough to fulfill your individual requirements.

Our activities are based on the broad range of in-house solutions, third-party financial products, as well as a network of strategically selected partners and experts. You benefit from our open architecture and international experience in financial, legal and tax matters.

VP Bank Group has subsidiaries in the British Virgin Islands, Luxembourg, Singapore, Vaduz and Zurich, asset management companies in Munich, Dubai and Hong Kong, as well as representative offices in Moscow and Hong Kong.

VP Bank – an international diverse service provider.

Our decades of experience in private banking, as well as our independence in providing advice, make the VP Bank Group a first-choice partner for addressing your investment needs.

 

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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.

 

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:

1. FOCUS on recruiting industry experts to ensure a thorough understanding of your issues.
2. ADVENTURE to challenge convention and continually strive to find better ways to achieve the best results.
3. PASSION for our work, our clients and the industry. 
4. 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.
5. 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.

Cyber Cafe 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.

 

Contact us: 

 

Barbados: Tel 246 626 2000
Toronto: Tel 416 214 9919
New York: Tel: 212 867 6420
Email: contact@investbarbados.org
www.investbarbados.org

Lunch Sponsor

The Bernhoft Law Firm, S.C.

207 E. Buffalo Street, Suite 600

Milwaukee, Wisconsin 53202

Phone: (414) 276-3333

Fax: (414) 276-2822

E-Mail: rgbernhoft@bernhoftlaw.com

Web: http://www.bernhoftlaw.com

 

The Bernhoft Law Firm, S.C. is a nationally-known boutique firm headquartered in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, with branch offices in Los Angeles and Malibu, California. The Firm focuses on complex criminal and civil litigation in federal and state courts, with a specialty in complex tax matters and investment fraud recovery. With its geographically diverse practice, the Firm has represented individuals and corporations in numerous high-profile matters in federal and state courts throughout the country, and throughout the world.

 

The Firm enjoys a robust reputation for its ability to provide intricate, high-profile criminal defense while being under the glare of the national media. Profiles of the Firm and its lawyers have appeared in numerous magazines and national newspapers, including Conde Nast's Portfolio, the New York Times, and the Los Angeles Times, among others.

 

The Firm's successful representation of Wesley Snipes in the actor's 2008 Florida federal tax fraud and conspiracy trial has been widely reported. (Mr. Snipes was acquitted of all felony counts after a two-week jury trial.) The Firm has also represented consumer advocate and presidential candidate Ralph Nader in complex litigation involving ballot access issues, and in 2008, began representing "Girls Gone Wild" impresario Joe Francis in his criminal tax evasion trial in Los Angeles federal court.

 

In addition to criminal and civil litigation, the Firm has obtained unique results in the netherworld of investment fraud recovery, representing clients who have been the victims of sophisticated domestic and international fraudsters.

 

The Firm's size allows it to give each client individualized attention from a team of uniquely creative and skilled legal counsel. The Firm prides itself on achieving rare results, whether it is nationally-featured criminal defense for those wrongly accused, reclaiming lost rights of the individual against the state, civil rights suits impacting the presidency of the United States, or recovering monies thought lost in some remote foreign jurisdiction.

Lunch Sponsor

BDO Consulting provides litigation, investigation, restructuring and risk advisory services to major corporations, law firms, insurance companies, financial services entities and government organizations.

 

Our highly experienced and well credentialed professionals draw upon a range of industry knowledge and completed consulting engagements throughout the United States and internationally to provide clients with unparalleled service.

 

BDO Consulting leverages the global industry and accounting knowledge of the BDO International network, providing rapid, strategic advice to assist our clients with dispute resolution, risk management, financial solvency and regulatory compliance issues.

 

Our services include:

 

Litigation
• Accountants’ Liability Services
• Business Interruption & Insurance Claim Services
• Complex Damage Analysis
• Computer Forensics & E-Discovery
• Financial Instruments Dispute Resolution
• Intellectual Property Disputes
• Large-Scale Data Recovery & Analysis
• Post-Acquisition Dispute Resolution
• Securities Litigation Services

 

Restructuring
• Business Restructuring & Workouts
• Due Diligence / Transaction Support
• Litigation
• Profit Improvement / Post-Acquisition Integration

 

Investigation
• Anti-Corruption Compliance & Investigations
• Anti-Money Laundering Services
• Computer Forensics & E-Discovery
• Corporate Investigations
• Critical Anti-Fraud Program
• Employee Misconduct Investigations
• Fidelity Bond Crime Claims
• Fraud Investigations
• Independent Private Sector Inspector General and Monitorships
• Investigative Due Diligence

 

Risk Advisory
• Business Process Enhancement
• Compliance Services / Sarbanes-Oxley
• Critical Anti-Fraud Program
• Internal Audit Services
• Technology Risk and Security

 

Mergers & Acquisitions
BDO Consulting also provides M&A Transaction services to clients on both the buy-side and sell side worldwide. Whether a transaction requires pre-acquisition or post-acquisition assistance, BDO Consulting’s experienced professionals have significant operational and financial experience, as well as a depth of industry knowledge to meet our clients' needs.

 

For certain transactions, BDO Consulting draws upon the experienced investment banking and business valuation professionals within the Trenwith Group, LLC, a wholly owned BDO Seidman-affiliate company that provides mergers and acquisitions advisory services, investment banking, corporate finance and valuation services to clients in the United States and abroad.

 

Subprime Mortgage Industry Services
As the number of subprime mortgage-related home foreclosures and loan delinquencies continues to climb, federal prosecutors and regulators are launching new investigations into subprime lender activities. In addition, litigation continues to mount in a multitude of jurisdictions over business disputes arising from subprime market dealings. Mortgage companies, brokers, banks, financial institutions, and other companies that created, sold, bought, insured, and even rated mortgage-backed securities are targets of these investigations and lawsuits.

 

BDO Consulting's seasoned professionals have the investigatory and litigation experience to assist clients in responding to these situations.

 

 

Printed Media Sponsor

Breakfast Sponsor

Breakfast Sponsor

 

 

 

 

 

Scrolling Storyboard Sponsor

The Cayman Islands Financial Services Association (CIFSA) was formed to represent Cayman’s financial services industry and to promote the jurisdiction as a quality international financial services centre. It's mission is to communicate the integrity and quality of financial services in the Cayman Islands to both the global and local market places.

 

Refreshment Break Sponsor

 

Krys & Associates is a professional services firm committed to providing and achieving successful results in the areas of Corporate Recovery, Insolvency, Forensic Accounting and Business Advisory Services.  Our practical hands-on approach, along with the depth and range of experience of our professionals, ensures that our clients receive answers and remedies specifically suited to meet their needs and demands.

 

The Firm has over 30 professionals with a variety of practical experience – accounting, legal, fund administration, and regulatory – and backgrounds – Americas, Asia, Europe and Africa.  Many are not only qualified accountants, but also as lawyers, fraud examiners, financial analysts, valuators and compliance specialists.  As such, clients receive the benefit of a close-knit team with a depth of experience and a wealth of qualifications supporting their work.

Given our specialization in the areas of Corporate Recovery, Insolvency, Forensic Accounting and Business Advisory Services, we are able to provide objective, independent and sound advice.  We pride ourselves on our quick turnaround and innovative and focused insights to clients.  Our engagements are carried out by closely managed teams headed by a dedicated director with extensive experience in the relevant areas being addressed.  Our professionals have local networks with the attorneys, regulators, and criminal authorities, assuring the services provided address our clients’ specific needs.

 

The Firm ’s clients vary from small voluntary liquidations to large cross-border engagements, and include the provision of expert evidence on litigation and valuation matters. Our current client list includes the Sphinx Group of Funds, Dyoll Insurance, Citrico International, Segoes Services and PFA Assurance.

Refreshment Break Sponsor

WestTel Limited was established in 2003 and in partnership with parent company Key Tech Limited from Bermuda, WestTel has developed into a dynamic company providing advanced telecommunications and IT Services to the Cayman Islands.

 

WestTel delivers its Internet services utilizing the latest in communications technology, providing various Internet and voice services via a robust network of fibre optic and fixed wireless infrastructures. The company’s dedicated Internet and managed data services are proven, reliable and resilient, utilizing enhanced security protocols. Products include integrated business to business data and voice solutions plus our market leading 'plug and play' EasyConnect high speed Internet and voice services for residential markets. 

 

The organization has recently launched a suite of Utility Computing solutions which allow businesses in Cayman and further afield to take advantage of world class computing infrastructure at a fraction of traditional costs, paid for on an ‘as you go’ or utility basis. Applications and data can be stored either on island or remotely offering robust solutions for either primary or Disaster Recovery environments. 

 

For further details see our website at www.westtel.ky or call us at (345) 743 4343.

Lanyard Sponsor

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Verasys, LLC
66 West Flagler Street, Suite 401
Miami, Florida  33130
Phone: 305.373.8488
info@verasysllc.com

13010 Morris Road, Building One, 6th Floor
Alpharetta, Georgia 30004
Phone: 770-576-1847
info@verasysllc.com

Buenos Aires, Argentina
2650 FM 407, Ste 145  #104
Bartonville, Texas  76226
Phone:  940.725.0754  
info@verasysllc.com

Totebag Sponsor

 

 

 

 

Media Sponsor

OffshoreAlert is a monthly investigative newsletter that specializes in exposing multi-jurisdictional, white-collar crime, including investment fraud and money laundering, while it's in progress.

 

Each edition of OffshoreAlert contains exclusive information on fraud and corruption, including details of on-going criminal investigations that are disclosed in requests for judicial assistance that are made pursuant to Mutual Legal Assistance Treaties (MLATs). Other topics include sham investment funds, shell banks, money laundering, bogus accounting and much more.

 

For over ten years, OffshoreAlert's relentless pursuit of securities fraudsters, investment scammers, money launderers and other white-collar criminals has made it an internationally-known and respected source for due diligence information, Know Your Customer research and risk management and is referenced or quoted regularly by the international media in articles about financial crime.

 

In the media, including:

• CNN
• CNBC's American Greed
• CBS News
• CTV in Canada
• The Wall Street Journal
• The Washington Post
• The New York Post
• The Miami Herald
• The Los Angeles Times
• The Independent on Sunday
• Business Week
• Forbes Magazine, and
• BBC Radio

In books, including:

• Crime School: Money Laundering: True Crime Meets The World Of Business And Finance by Chris Mathers
• The Sink: Crime, Terror and Dirty Money in the Offshore World by Jeffrey Robinson

In Government reports, including:

• 'Correspondent Banking: A Gateway to Money Laundering' by the Minority Staff of the Permanent Subcommittee on Investigations of the United States Senate

 

 

Ask us how we can help!

 

With a host of new sponsor and exhibitor opportunities, OffshoreAlert is ready to help you maximize your company’s exposure and to get your firm's message out to your target market! For more information contact Leigh Rose on +1-305-851-2602 or at lrose@offshorealert.com.

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