2022 International Economic Crime Conference

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Jacob Stein, Esq. is a California-based attorney and the managing partner of Aliant, LLP. He specializes in asset protection planning, complex U.S. and international tax planning, and structuring international business transactions. Mr. Stein received his law degree from the University of Southern California, and a Master of Laws in Taxation from Georgetown University. He is ranked by Chambers and Partners in the High Net Worth Category, has been AV-rated by Martindale-Hubbell, and named a ‘A Super Lawyer’ by the Los Angeles Magazine for over ten years and is listed in the top 1% of ‘America’s Most Honored Professionals’ by the American Registry. Over the course of his career, Mr. Stein has represented officers and directors of Fortune 500 companies, Forbes 400 families around the world, high-profile entrepreneurs, celebrities, high net-worth individuals, private equity funds, and many more.

Mr. Mills founded Asia and Middle East International Law Group as a specialized international law firm with the purpose of providing advice and expertise at the highest levels to enterprises across the globe involved in intricate international business and investment transactions, as well as in complex, high-stakes cross-border dispute civil and criminal disputes.

A litigation and strategy specialist especially in cases involving cross-border issues in the field of bankruptcy, insolvency, restructuring, and international commercial arbitration. I advise and represent both individuals and companies on a range of regulatory and commercial issues including mergers and acquisitions, and directors and shareholders disputes.

As a strong expert on criminal procedure matters, Nikita has always known that substance is crucial, but also that the deep knowledge of the procedural mechanisms is often the key to a satisfactory judicial result.

Paul Garlick QC practices in the fields of extradition, human rights and corporate responsibility for human rights violations. He is actively involved with advising corporate bodies in connection with compliance with their responsibilities and obligations under the UN Guiding Principles on Business and Human Rights. He is a member of the American Bar Association’s Advisory Board on Business and Human Rights Project. In 2012, Paul was leading counsel for the defence in the criminal prosecution of Kweku Adoboli. The allegations in this case involved one of the largest losses incurred by a bank as a result of an alleged “rogue trader” in the history of the UK. The losses that were sustained as a result of the actions of the traders at UBS bank amounted to $2.3 billion. Mr Adoboli’s defence team argued that he was not guilty of fraud as the bank had encouraged the traders at the bank to trade in the manner that led to the losses being incurred. Since 2006, Paul has been an International Expert to the International Academy of Environmental Sciences, advising the Directive Council on matters of international environmental law. In 2011, Paul was appointed as one of the members of the Expert Committee on EU Criminal Law Policy at the European Commission. He is a visiting lecturer at The University of The Hague, where he teaches international criminal law and human rights. In the field of extradition, Paul has significant experience of handling both European Arrest Warrant cases (category 1) and non-EAW extradition cases (category 2) in the UK. He has a depth of experience of acting in politically motivated proceedings for high-profile individuals, having successfully represented one of the former Directors of the Yukos Oil Company in an extradition request by the Russian Federation. He has recently successfully defended two clients against extradition requests by Turkey. He has advised and acted on behalf of the governments of the United States, and the majority of the Commonwealth countries and member states of the European Union. Paul acted as leading counsel in a successful appeal in the High Court against a District Judge’s decision to order the extradition of a Romanian national pursuant to a European Arrest Warrant. The appeal centered on the application of the new 2009 Framework Decision on retrial rights for those convicted of an extradition offence in their absence. The judgment is reported as Ernest-Francisc Bohm v Romanian Judicial Authority [2011] EWHC 2671 (Admin). In 2019, Paul acted as the chairman of an independent panel of legal experts which carried out a detailed review of the circumstances surrounding the investigation of a suspicious death of an Indian actress in Mumbai. In 2019 (and ongoing) Paul was instructed by the Attorney General of The Commonwealth of Dominica to act for the claimant in an action for the civil recovery of assets alleged to be the proceeds of drug trafficking. In 2019 (and ongoing), Paul was instructed by the Supervisory Authority (SA) of Antigua and Barbuda to act on behalf of the SA in two appeals from the Eastern Caribbean Court of Appeal to the Judicial Committee of the Privy Council. The appeals concern the scope and structure of the procedure for civil recovery of the proceeds of criminal conduct and involve questions of general public importance relating to the constitution of Antigua and Barbuda and the international law obligations of Eastern Caribbean States to take steps to prevent the laundering of the proceeds of criminal conduct. Chambers and Partners commended Paul as “a highly regarded extradition barrister regularly engaged in matters with significant human rights components, offering particular expertise in cases that focus on Articles 2 and 3 of the ECHR.” APPOINTMENTS & MEMBERSHIPS 1996 – Queens Counsel 1997 Part time Judge in Crown Court (Recorder) 2004 – International War Crimes Judge 2006 – International Expert to International Academy of Environmental Sciences 2011 – Member of Expert Committee on EU Crimnal Law Policy at the European Commission 2014 – Accredited Mediator 2018 – Visiting lecturer at the Univeristy of Hague

A senior advocate at India’s Supreme Court, Guruswamy is one of her country’s leading constitutional and civil rights lawyers, currently litigating an array of cases ranging from challenges to the recent Citizenship Amendment Act and efforts to recognize same-sex marriage, to claims concerning extrajudicial killings by the military in the state of Manipur and the right of women to enter the Sabrimala Temple in Kerala.