Wednesday 8 September 2021


Session 8: Legal and other risks for financial institutions in saying too much about their clients and customers – the cost of co-operation

  • Chair: Professor Barry Rider, Founder and Executive Director and Co-Chairman of the Symposium and Professorial Fellow, Centre of Development Studies, University of Cambridge, UK

  • Dr Peter German QC, President, International Centre for Criminal Law Reform and Criminal Justice Policy, Vancouver, Canada and Advisor, office of the Attorney General, British Columbia, former Deputy Commissioner and Director General of the Financial Crime Division, Royal Canadian Mounted Police, Canada

  • Mr David Kirk, Consultant, RS Legal Strategy and former Chief Criminal Counsel, Enforcement and Financial Crime, Financial Services Authority, UK

  • Mr Kenneth Murray, Head of Forensic Accountancy, Police Scotland, UK

  • Mr David Fitzpatrick, Barrister, England and Wales and Hong Kong and former Senior Crown Counsel, Hong Kong SAR, People’s Republic of China

  • Mr Guy Wilkes, Partner, Mischon de Reya LLP and former Head of Department, Financial Conduct Authority, London, UK

  • Dr Patrick Hardouin, Consultant and former Deputy Assistant Secretary General, NATO, France

  • Mr Stefan Cassella, Asset Forfeiture Law LLC and former Chief, Asset Forfeiture and Money Laundering Section, Office of the US Attorney, US Department of Justice, USA

  • Mr Jeff Simser, Legal Director-Agencies, LHIN Legal Services Branch, Local Health Integration Network and former Legal Director, Ministry of the Attorney General, Canada

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Session 9: Pursuing ill-gotten gains and making facilitators pay

  • Chair: Sir John Mummery, PC, QC, former Lord Justice of Appeal, England and Wales, President of the Intelligence Services Tribunal and the Investigating Power Tribunal and Honorary Fellow of Pembroke College, University of Oxford, UK

  • Mr Martin Kenney, founder and Managing Partner, Martin Kenney and Co, Solicitors, British Virgin Islands

  • Mr Alex Potts QC, Partner and Head of Litigation and Restructuring, Conyers, Cayman Islands

  • Mr Roger Best, Litigation Partner, Clifford Chance, London, UK

  • Mr Keith Oliver, Head of International, Peters and Peters, London, UK

  • Mr Ameet Kabrawala, Regional Resident Legal Advisor, US Department of Justice, US Embassy, Riga, Latvia

  • Mr Peter Gray, Co-Managing Partner, Aldahbashi Gray, Dubai, United Arab Emirates

  • Dr Dominic Thomas James, Researcher, Fitzwilliam College, University of Cambridge; Global Justice Fellow, Yale University, USA; Consultant, ICC FraudNet and Barrister, Goldsmith Chambers, London, UK

Datuk Simon Shim, Senior Partner, M/S Sim Pang & Co, Malaysia

Professor Hans Tjio, Professor of Law, National University of Singapore and Member of the Securities Industry Council of Singapore and formerly adviser to the Monetary Authority Singapore


Session 10: Empowering those who are hurt by economic crime - the new frontier

  • Chair: His Honour Judge Michael Hopmeier, Circuit Judge, Southwark Crown Court, Master of the Bench of the Middle Temple, UK

  • Mr Duncan Hames, Director of Policy, Transparency International UK

  • Mr Gaon Hart, former Global Anti-Bribery and Corruption, Policy and Education Lead, HSBC, UK

  • Mr Eliseo Martinez, Managing Partner, lus+Aequitas Litigation Law Office, Spain

  • Mr Mike Stubbs, Partner, Mishcon de Reya LLP, London, UK

  • Dr Thomas Spies, of Counsel, Ernst and Young GmbH and former Counsel and Senior Manager, Regulatory Service Group, KPMG; former Global Head AM, Deutsche Bank Group, Germany

  • Professor Andrew Haynes, Professor of Law, University of Wolverhampton and University of Tyumen, Russia and Visiting Professor of Law, University of Macau, People’s Republic of China, UK

  • Dr Richard Alexander, Lecturer and Programme Director in Financial Law, School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London, Visiting Professor, Copernicus University, Torun, Poland and Shandong Judicial Training College, People’s Republic of China

  • Professor William Tupman, Professor of Criminal Justice, BPP University and Research Fellow, University of Exeter, UK

  • Professor Andrew Campbell, Solicitor, Emeritus Professor, International Banking and Finance Law, University of Leeds, UK

  • Mr Vivian Ellis, Lecturer in Criminology, Anglia Ruskin University and formerly of the Serious and Organised Crime Command, Metropolitan Police Service, London, UK

Mr Lampros Tsogkas, Public Prosecutor, Head of Prosecution Service, Thessaloniki, Greece

Dr Lorenzo Pasculli, Senior Lecturer in Law, Centre for Financial and Corporate Integrity, Coventry University, UK


Plenary workshop 14: Asset recovery

  • Chair: Mr Paul Napper, Principal Financial Investigator, Proceeds of Crime Division, Serious Fraud Office of England, Wales and Northern Ireland

  • Mr John McGarry, Lawyer, Proceeds of Crime Division, Serious Fraud Office of England, Wales and Northern Ireland

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Plenary workshop 17: International money laundering: is it necessary to identify the underlying crime when criminal proceeds from another country are in question?

  • Chair: Mr Stefan Cassella, Asset Forfeiture Law LLC and former Chief, Asset Forfeiture and Money Laundering Section, Office of the US Attorney, US Department of Justice, USA

  • Mr Yehuda Shaffer, former Deputy State Attorney (Financial Crime), Israel

  • Ms Ilze Znotina, Director, Financial Intelligence Unit, Latvia

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Plenary workshop 18: Economic crime – The Islamic finance perspective

  • Chair: Ms Claire O’Connor, Consultant and former partner RSM, Researcher, Institute of Advanced Legal Studies, University of London, UK

  • Ms Farmida Bi, Chair, Europe, Middle East and Asia Norton Rose Fulbright LLP, UK

  • Dr Lu’ayy Al-Rimawi, Programme Leader, Islamic Finance and Business Law, BPP University, consultant and former Fellow in Islamic Studies, Harvard University, UK

  • Professor Mehmet Asutay, Professor of Middle Eastern and Islamic Political Economy and Finance and Director, Centre for Islamic Economics and Finance Studies, Durham Business School, University of Durham, UK

  • Dr Jonathan Ercanbrack, Chair, Centre for Islamic and Middle Eastern Law, School of African and Oriental Studies (SOAS), University of London, London, UK

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Concluding Remarks for the General Symposium

  • Mr Saul M Froomkin QC, Chairman of the Symposium, Director, Special Counsel, Christopher E Swan & Co, Bermuda and former Attorney General of Bermuda

  • Mr Michael Ashe QC SC, Barrister, Addington Chambers, Co-Chairman of the Symposium; Visiting Professor of Law, BPP University; Master of the Bench of the Middle Temple, UK and former Recorder of the Crown Court, England and Wales, UK

  • Professor Sir Ivan Lawrence QC, Barrister, Co-Chairman of the Symposium, Professor of Criminal Law, BPP University and the University of Buckingham, former Member of Parliament and Chairman of the Home Affairs Committee, House of Commons, former Recorder of the Crown Court and Master of the Bench of the Inner Temple, UK

  • Professor Barry Rider, Founder and Executive Director and Co-Chairman of the Symposium and Professorial Fellow, Centre of Development Studies, University of Cambridge, UK

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