Events

In The Academy’s third Ask the Expert session, Fellow Keith Oliver introduces guest speakers Amalia Neenan, Civil & Commercial Legal Researcher at Peters & Peters, and Amanda Wick, Chief of Legal Affairs at Chainalysis. During the event, Amalia and Amanda explain the block chain and discuss the future of crypto currency.

In this one-hour virtual session, Fellow Co-Chairs Gretta Fenner and Lucinda Low led a discussion with four distinguished panelists: Pascale H. Dubois, Dorothy Siron, Shin Jae Kim and Radha Curpen. The webinar included an interactive Q&A session at the end of the panel.

Guest speakers Mary Inman, Partner at Constantine Cannon, and Christoper Ehrman, Director of the CFTC Whistleblower Office, introduce U.S. whistleblower reward programs and explain how they can be used by non-U.S. citizens too.

During The Academy’s first Ask the Expert event, Fellow and Professor Jeremy Horder presented on corporate liability for failure to prevent fraud under English law. 

Speakers Harry Travers and Fred Davis discuss corporate vulnerability to criminal prosecution as Lisa van der Wal moderates.

In our sixth roundtable, Gary Naftalis moderates a discussion on bench trials versus jury trials in complex white-collar cases with Speakers Adam Hoffinger and Mark Pieth.

Lucinda Low moderates a discussion on recent trends in corporate liability with speakers Jonathan Sack and Wolfgang Spoerr.

In this roundtable, moderator Dorothy Siron guides a discussion on the costs of international litigation with speakers Sue Thackeray and Lincoln Caylor.

Speakers Mark Pieth and Andrew Stafford QC discuss the role of auditors in the financial affairs of a company as Glenn Pomerantz moderates.

Stéphane Bonifassi moderates a discussion on the reach of the U.S. sanctions with speakers Professor Régis Bismuth and Ben Gruenstein.

Cathalijne van der Plas and Tim Prudhoe kicked off the Academy’s virtual roundtable series by presenting on the issue of remote advocacy.

Academy members Antenor Madruga and Keith Oliver accompanied by Natalia Goncalves of Bonifassi Avocats.

The UK Ambassador to Bucharest, His Excellency Andrew Noble, graciously hosted a dinner for leading members of the local legal community at his residence on Tuesday, 14 May, 2019. They discussed the state of international law and, particularly, extradition issues generated by the case of Julian Assange of Wikileaks. Keith Oliver, founding member of The International Academy of Financial Crime Litigators and head of international for Peters & Peters Solicitors LLP, is pictured.

The Academy struck its first media partnership agreement with the OffshoreAlert Conference North America. Founding members raised the economic crime-fighting flag at #OACMiami 2019, while OffshoreAlert founder David Marchant spoke about competition to tame the rising tide of financial crime as he welcomed The Academy to the event.

Join us for our biannual Member Meeting at which we will welcome new members, evaluate our mission of expanding the body of knowledge about economic crimes and how to address them, and discuss the latest cases and trends in financial crime litigation.