5th OffshoreAlert
FINANCIAL DUE DILIGENCE CONFERENCE
April 24 - 25, 2007 | Hotel InterContinental | Miami, Florida
Learn how to identify, manage and avoid unnecessary risk in banking, international finance, and general business from over 40 speakers, from the private and public sectors in both OFFSHORE and ONSHORE domiciles, representing organizations such as:
• U.S. Securities & Exchange Commission • U.S. Department of Justice, U.S. Senate • Cayman Islands Monetary Authority • Bahamas Securities Commission • Bermuda Monetary Authority • British Virgin Islands Financial Services Commission • Kroll • ChoicePoint • Deloitte & Touche • KMPG • Milberg Weiss Bershad & Schulman • Baker Hostetler • Tew Cardenas • Callenders & Co. • Martin Kenney & Co.
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NO-NONSENSE INFORMATION
Practical, understandable due diligence tactics to limit your liability under banking and general legislation and to prevent your unwitting involvement in securities fraud, investment fraud and money laundering with special sessions on Hedge Fund Due Diligence, Offshore Financial Centers, Class Action Lawsuits, Asset Recovery, Russian Clients & Offshore Insurance.
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NETWORKING
Network with some of the world's most prominent figures in international finance from organizations such as: U.S. Securities & Exchange Commission, U.S. Department of Homeland Security, U.S. Department of Justice, U.S. Senate, Cayman Islands Monetary Authority, Bahamas Securities Commission, British Virgin Islands Financial Services Commission, Kroll, ChoicePoint, Deloitte & Touche, KMPG, Milberg Weiss Bershad & Schulman, Winston & Strawn, Baker Hostetler, Tew Cardenas, Callenders & Co. & Martin Kenney & Co.
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BRIDGING THE DIVIDE BETWEEN OFFSHORE & ONSHORE FINANCE
OffshoreAlert's Conference brings together over 40 prominent speakers from the Bahamas, Barbados, Bermuda, British Virgin Islands, Canada, Cayman Islands, St. Kitts & Nevis, United Kingdom and the United States who investigate, prosecute and seek to recover assets from suspected financial criminals alongside those who provide services to them.
Read the Media Buzz
Dear Professional,
My name is David Marchant, founder and editor of OffshoreAlert.com. At OffshoreAlert it is our mission to educate and warn readers of serious financial crime.
To accomplish this end, we rely on research, informed sources, investigative tools, analysis and financial know-how to uncover serious financial crime each month. Our conference reflects this attention to detail and brings those procedures, techniques and network of contacts into a public forum.
Attend in April & get access to the following:
- Two Days of no-nonsense information to help you identify, manage and avoid unnecessary risk in banking, international finance, and general business.
- 2 Cocktail receptions to network with over 40 prominent speakers from ONSHORE & OFFSHORE domiciles.
- Proven techniques & procedures that have helped OffshoreAlert expose major, international financial crimes involving hundreds of millions of dollars of losses to businesses and individuals.
- A forum for open discussion with your peers on any topic relevant to the conference.
- Complimentary access to the Conference's audio web-archives Don't worry if there are two must-see sessions taking place concurrently - you can always listen to them after the event!.
- Continuing Education Credits (CLEs and CPEs), if you need them.
- A 100% satisfaction guarantee.
Connect with this Refreshingly Bold & honest event
As past attendees can testify to, this is most definitely not a conference, like so many others, that has been thrown together piecemeal in an attempt to jump on the ‘Know Your Customer’ bandwagon
I personally labored for many months to put together original, relevant, insightful, penetrating, and worthwhile agenda sessions. Then I labored some more to ensure that they will be presented by speakers and panelists who are experienced and knowledgeable about all aspects of financial crime.
Register for the 5th OffshoreAlert Due Diligence Conference...With no risk to you!
I am so certain that the 5th OffshoreAlert Financial Due Diligence Conference represents the highest quality and value that I am backing it up with my personal 100% money-back guarantee.
Sincerely,
David Marchant
OffshoreAlert founder and publisher
CLICK HERE to reserve your seat today!
POWER PANELS
FINANCIAL MISCONDUCT: WHO PAYS?
Melvyn I. Weiss, the Senior & Founding Partner of the most-feared class action law firm in the U. S., Milberg Weiss Bershad & Schulman, discusses legal liability when fraud is committed. Since 1965, Milberg Weiss has wrung more than $45 billion out of corporate opponents.
U. S. SENATE VS. OFFSHORE FINANCIAL CENTERS
Bob Roach, the Chief Investigator for the 2006 U. S. Senate report called “Tax Haven Abuses: The Enablers, The Tolls and Secrecy”, discusses what he found when he looked at whether offshore structures were being used to circumvent U. S. securities, money laundering and tax laws.
MULTI-JURISDICTION INVESTIGATIONS
Timothy Ridley, Chairman of the Cayman Islands Monetary Authority, joins regulators from other offshore financial centers and the United States to discuss how to obtain information outside your jurisdiction when investigating suspected illegal activity. These days, there’s no such thing as an impregnable jurisdiction.
On Special in Aisle 4: Offshore Bank Licenses
Jerome Schneider, released from prison on August 18, 2006 after serving a six-month sentence for helping U. S. taxpayers evade taxes using offshore structures. He will explain how he formed hundreds of offshore banks in lightly-regulated jurisdictions for re-sale to the public.
Recovering the Proceeds of Crime
Martin Kenney, one of the world's best-known asset recovery attorneys, as evidenced by an appearance on the CBS TV show '60 Minutes', shows how to finance an asset recovery attempt, trace concealed assets using investigative and legal techniques, then apply to freeze and seize them.
WHAT'S HOT
A Crash Course in Offshore Financial Centers
What You Need to Know But Won’t Read in Promotional Material. David Marchant, Publisher of OffshoreAlert, will discuss why OFCs exist, products and services that are on offer, important reputational and regulatory differences between the jurisdictions, and sources of information, including a searchable database containing hundreds of international requests for judicial assistance that contain specific details about on-going criminal investigations.
ARTICLES, INTERVIEWS & MEDIA BUZZ
Article: Your odds of falling victim to financial crime? Try 1 in 2
SOURCE: OffshoreAlert, March 21, 2007
Do you think that financial crime is unlikely to happen to your firm and, therefore, why should you spend money on preventing and detecting it? If you do, think again.
When accounting firm PricewaterhouseCoopers surveyed 3,634 companies worldwide for its 2005 Global Economic Crime Survey, it found that 45% of them had been victims of financial crime in the previous two years. That represented an 8% increase compared with a similar PwC study in 2003.
“No industry is safe – whether regulated or unregulated,” commented PwC in its 2005 Executive Summary. “From 38% to 60% of the companies in each of the sectors we surveyed reported significant frauds.”
ARTICLE: Jurisdiction & Liability: The twin defenses of offshore defendants
SOURCE: OffshoreAlert, March 15, 2007
When the Bank of Bermuda (Cayman) Ltd. was sued in the United States in 2000 on behalf of victims of a Ponzi scheme known as Cash 4 Titles, it did what almost all offshore-based defendants do - it challenged jurisdiction.
The result was equally as predictable, i.e. the U. S. District Court for the Southern District of Florida ruled that it did indeed have jurisdiction over the bank, notwithstanding the fact that the financial institution was headquartered in a foreign country and had no subsidiaries in the U. S.
ARTICLE: Bear Stearns Counts Cost of Due Diligence Failure
SOURCE: OffshoreAlert, March 8, 2007
Bear Stearns Securities Corp. has learned the hard way about the dire financial consequences of failing to conduct proper due diligence on a client and ignoring red-flags.
On February 20, 2007, the U. S.-based securities broker was ordered by a U. S. Bankruptcy Judge in New York to repay $159 million to the Trustee of Manhattan Investment Fund Ltd., a New York-based, British Virgin Islands-registered hedge fund that collapsed in 2000 amid allegations of fraud and with an estimated net insolvency of approximately $400 million.
ARTICLE: U. S. legislation targets company formation agents and hedge fund operators
SOURCE: OffshoreAlert, February 28, 2007
Offshore Financial Centers have become better regulated from within over the last few years, largely due to political pressure from the world’s major countries, whose governments were concerned about tax evasion. Now there is a proposal to regulate them from without.
MEDIA BUZZ:Hedge funds remain attractive regardless of returns
SOURCE: Cayman Net News, February 26, 2007
ARTICLE: A Crash Course in Offshore Financial Centers
SOURCE: OffshoreAlert, February 20, 2007
MEDIA BUZZ: Offshore ‘watchdog’ criticises Bermuda
SOURCE: Cayman Net News, February 19, 2007
ARTICLE: Hedge Funds: Fraud is a common reason for failure
SOURCE: OffshoreAlert, February 15, 2007
ARTICLE: Hedge Funds: Growing in Popularity
SOURCE: OffshoreAlert, February 13, 2007
CONSIDER YOUR CONFERENCE BENEFITS
(Then consider your exposure without them.)
The cost of due diligence is a bargain compared with the risk you take without it. In fact, most of the financial crimes exposed by OffshoreAlert over the 10 years that we have been publishing could have been avoided if the injured party had carried out (or commissioned) proper due diligence.
This year’s Conference continues to make due diligence understandable, and practical, for every Conference participant so that you can walk away with tactics to limit your liability under banking and general legislation and mitigate your risk of being sued, indicted, arrested or defrauded.
ABOUT OffshoreAlert
For ten years, OffshoreAlert has stood alone as an exposer of serious financial crime in offshore financial centers – while it is in progress. During that time, 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.
