International ONE day conference

3 April 2025 | Warsaw

Timely Topics | Authoritative Speakers

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THE CONFERENCE

Asset Recovery CEE is the inaugural Polish event for the dispute resolution and investigations sectors. Aimed at legal professionals, litigation funders, corporate investigations specialists and asset recovery experts, the event will bring together leading experts and industry practitioners from the CEE region and beyond.

The event takes place in Warsaw, a city of increasing strategic significance.

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Introduction

Panel 1: The grey zone: investigations and the law

Panel 2: Surveillance: usage in asset tracing, the risks and the rewards

Panel 3: Liquid assets – here today, gone tomorrow? Enforcement, intelligence gathering and educating clients

Panel 4: Litigation finance in the CEE – a damp squib or a significant opportunity?

Panel 5: The blockchain – the opportunity of reopening old fraud cases

Panel 6: The Politics of Asset Recovery

Panel 7: Digital treasure – is the golden era of OSINT over?

Panel 8: Bankruptcy and Restructuring – best practices of investigating in an early stage special situation

Panel 9: Poking the Bear – Investigating in Russia and on Russian targets

Panel 10: Dubai: investigating in the new safe haven

Panel 11: Case Study: investigation into a UHNW

Panel 12: Sanction circumvention – current trends

Panel 13: Sovereign enforcement – the interplay of Arbitration awards and politics

Panel 14: Technology in investigations – from deception to serious disruption? The future of technology in investigations and the limits of it

Panel 15: Aggregated enforcement – the future of class actions in the CEE

Closing Remarks

Drinks Reception

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speakers

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Charles Claypoole

Partner

LATHAM & WATKINS

United Kingdom

Charles Claypoole

Partner

LATHAM & WATKINS

United Kingdom

Charles Claypoole is a partner in the London office of Latham & Watkins where he specialises in advising on international law, international arbitration, including investment treaty arbitration, and international trade and financial sanctions and trade controls. Charles has been extensively involved in advising clients on EU and UK sanctions arising from the Russian invasion of Ukraine, and is currently involved in a number of international disputes arising out of the imposition of US, EU, UK and other sanctions. Charles led the Latham & Watkins team advising Unicredit in Unicredit Bank GmbH v RusChemAlliance LLC and is counsel in several pending international arbitrations against both Russian parties (which also involve mirror proceedings before the Russian courts) and non-Russian parties arising out of disputes caused by the imposition of sanctions. Charles has published on legal and practical issues arising from the interplay between sanctions and international arbitration, and regularly speaks on issues related to sanctions and other issues of international law.

C. David DeBenedetti

NY Attorney, Partner

DeBenedetti Majewski Szcześniak

Poland

C. David DeBenedetti

NY Attorney, Partner

DeBenedetti Majewski Szcześniak

Poland

David is a NY attorney with broad and long-term experience in different areas of corporate law. He is a founding partner of a boutique law firm in Warsaw, has acted as general counsel and compliance officer to an international hedge fund and advisory group and sits in supervisory bodies of publicly listed companies in Poland. David is a secretary of the Board of Directors of the American Chamber of Commerce in Poland and member of the Board of Directors of Globalaw. After the Russian aggression on Ukraine, he was one of the two founders of the Corporate Aid for Ukraine initiative. David specializes in issues related to investment funds and hedge funds, as well as venture capital transactions, and mergers and acquisitions. He also deals with planning and implementing investments, specifically in their cross-border aspects. His core interests include renewable energy sources, distressed asset transactions and litigation funding.

Rachel Cropper-Mawer

Partner

Ogier

United Kingdom

Rachel Cropper-Mawer

Partner

Ogier

United Kingdom

Emmanuel Pitron

CEO

ADIT

France

Emmanuel Pitron

CEO

ADIT

France

CEO of ADIT since January 2023, he is in charge of business intelligence and business ethics. He advises numerous senior executives and provides strategic and operational support to ADIT’s clients around the world. On a daily basis, he coordinates ADIT’s teams of consultants’ work to meet the needs of companies. In 2016, as Senior Vice President, he created and developed a Business Unit in charge of compliance and due diligence activities in order to protect and secure ADIT’s clients against all business’s non-compliance risks. He has also developped sovereign solutions for managing theses risks. In 2021, he was responsible of the coordination of the growth of the Group’s various busineses. After spending seven years in government service (Ministry of Foreign Affairs, prefectoral corps, Ministry of the Interior and General Inspectorate of Finance), he joined the RATP Group, where he successively held the positions of Chief of Staff to the CEO and then Group Secretary General. Before joining ADIT, he was Vice-President in charge of strategy and business development for the CMA-CGM Group. He is a graduate of IEP in Paris, an alumnus of ENA and holds an executive programme from INSEAD.

Zachary Segal

Investment Manager

Litigation Capital Management (LCM)

United Kingdom

Zachary Segal

Investment Manager

Litigation Capital Management (LCM)

United Kingdom

Zachary Segal is an Investment Manager in LCM’s London office and has more than 20 years of experience in the legal profession, specialising in all forms of dispute resolution, and in particular international arbitration, including investor-state disputes, and commercial litigation. Having qualified as an English solicitor in 2003, Zachary switched his focus to disputes finance in 2024. Zachary is responsible for originating and assessing prospective projects for disputes finance, negotiating the terms of litigation and arbitration funding agreements and managing LCM’s investments in the EMEA region. Prior to his move into disputes finance, Zachary qualified at Allen & Overy LLP and was latterly a partner in the International Arbitration Group at Mishcon de Reya LLP. Zachary was for several years recognised in Legal 500 (UK edition), and other legal directories, as a key contact in the world of international arbitration, with a particular focus on disputes arising out of the CIS and CEE regions. The authors of Legal 500 wrote that Zachary “stands out by providing unambiguous guidance” and is “a key contact for proceedings involving emerging markets”.

Matthew Toma

Research Director

Burford Capital

Sweden

Matthew Toma

Research Director

Burford Capital

Sweden

Based in Stockholm, Matthew is a Director with responsibility for assessing and underwriting legal and collection risk as part of Burford Capital’s EMEA investment team, with a focus on asset recovery matters. Matthew has over 15 years of experience leading complex multi-jurisdictional asset tracing and recovery efforts. Prior to his role at Burford, he held positions with several leading investigative firms in London, New York, and San Francisco, where he successfully managed investigations in over 50 countries. Burford is a leading legal finance provider with its own global asset recovery and enforcement business, comprised of both former litigators and dedicated asset tracing professionals. Our asset recovery business invests in litigation to enforce high value unsatisfied judgments, debts, and awards, that may originate in all sectors and specialisms (including commercial disputes, banking & debt recovery, trust and family disputes, insolvency, international arbitration and claims against sovereigns).

Anna Gumowska

Global Head of Investigations

G3

United Kingdom

Anna Gumowska

Global Head of Investigations

G3

United Kingdom

Anna Gumowska is the Global Head of Investigations and Disputes at G3, based in London. Anna is an experienced investigator and asset searcher having led multiple cross-jurisdictional assignments for clients around the world within a broad range of industries. Prior to joining G3, Anna spent over a decade at a leading US investigations consultancy where most recently she headed up the dispute support and asset search team for EMEA. She assisted clients with complex international litigation and arbitration cases, asset search and asset enforcement strategies, as well as internal investigations relating to fraud and bribery (including FCPA and UK Bribery Act matters). She also conducted numerous cross-border M&A due diligence assignments across a range of sectors. Anna started her career as a researcher for a leading broadsheet newspaper in Poland. She holds a first-class degree in Russian and Politics from University College London. Anna speaks Polish, Ukrainian and Russian and has a good knowledge of Spanish and German.

Agnieszka Durlik

Director General

Court of Arbitration at the Polish Chamber of Commerce (PCC)

Poland

Agnieszka Durlik

Director General

Court of Arbitration at the Polish Chamber of Commerce (PCC)

Poland

Director General of The Arbitration Court at the Polish Chamber of Commerce long-time practitioner in the field of business support. Jagiellonian University Master of law, completed postgraduate studies at the Warsaw School of Economics in Human Resource Management. She developed her first professional experience as the right hand of the director of one of the largest hospitals in Warsaw, where she learned the ins and outs of the challenges of managing an organisation in a way that required reconciling opposing interest groups. For many years, she has represented the entrepreneurs’ self-government as an expert in business and legal topics concerning the establishment and operation of a business, labour law and social security. She has worked her way up through the various levels of a large organisation such as the Polish Chamber of Commerce – from expert, through project-manager, Press Officer, Director of the President’s Office, to Director General of the Court of Arbitration at the Polish Chamber of Commerce. She actively participates in the law-making processes in Poland – in the parliament, ministries, public administration bodies. She has successfully prepared and implemented projects financed by EU funds. She advises entrepreneurs and is a guest of various media in advocating the interests of entrepreneurs. She is a co-author of a number of publications on, inter alia, business advocacy, business conduct and corruption prevention.

Gabriel Olearnik

Partner, Head of Special Situations

LitFin - Litigation Financiers

United Kingdom

Gabriel Olearnik

Partner, Head of Special Situations

LitFin - Litigation Financiers

United Kingdom

Gabriel was previously the managing director for Europe of a global litigation funder. He has 18 years of experience which includes being the general counsel of Mayfair based investment fund Tristan Capital Partners and the head of the private equity practice group at Kochański and Partners. Whilst in private practice he worked at Clifford Chance, Mayer Brown and Dentons as a solicitor responsible for commercial deals and disputes. He also has particular expertise in resolving shareholder and law firm partnership disputes. Gabriel holds an LLM from King’s College London, where he was awarded the Principal’s Award for his work in the field of international arbitration. Gabriel is a practising solicitor in England and Wales.

James E. Berger

Partner

DLA Piper

United States

James E. Berger

Partner

DLA Piper

United States

James is a litigation partner resident in New York and Washington. He focuses his practice on international disputes and cross-border enforcement and asset recovery, representing clients in a broad range of international and domestic conflicts before US courts and arbitral tribunals. A significant portion of his practice includes the enforcement of arbitral awards and foreign judgments against sovereign and commercial entities in the US and globally. James also has experience in multi-jurisdictional asset recovery proceedings involving allegations of fraud, and has represented and advised clients worldwide in various sectors including mining, energy, and finance. James has served as lead counsel in some of the most cutting-edge cross-border cases to be litigated in US trial and appellate courts in recent years. He has considerable experience litigating issues under the Foreign Sovereign Immunities Act, the New York Convention, the Panama Convention, ICSID, the Energy Charter Treaty, the Uniform Foreign Money Judgments Recognition Act, 28 U.S.C. § 1782, and other treaties and statutes that have unique applicability in cross-border disputes. He has considerable experience advising not only foreign investors and parties to cross-border disputes, but also litigation funders, hedge funds and other dispute investors and financial stakeholders who play a critical role in the resolution of large commercial and investor-state disputes. James speaks and writes regularly on topics related to international dispute resolution and enforcement. He has been a guest lecturer at New York University School of Law, Fordham University School of Law, and Renmin University School of Law in Beijing, and cases he has handled have served as the basis for semester-long international disputes classes at NYU and Fordham Law Schools. He conceived, edited, and was a contributing author to International Aspects of U.S. Litigation (ABA, 2017), a two-volume treatise on the litigation of international disputes in US courts, and has published expert analyses on international disputes issues in Law360, as well as been a guest contributor on legal issues to the South China Morning Post, a leading daily newspaper in Hong Kong. James was also recently appointed an executive member of the Institute for International Economic Policy of the Elliott School for International Affairs at the George Washington University.

Agnieszka Siedlecka-Andrychowicz

Director

Lewiatan Court of Arbitration

Poland

Agnieszka Siedlecka-Andrychowicz

Director

Lewiatan Court of Arbitration

Poland

Director of the Lewiatan Court of Arbitration. Lecturer for the Postgraduate Studies in Negotiation, Mediation, and Alternative Dispute Resolution Methods at the Faculty of Law and Administration, University of Warsaw, as well as for the Postgraduate Studies in Negotiation and Mediation in Business and Labor Relations at the Warsaw School of Economics. Mediator at the Foundation for Dispute and Conflict Resolution Center, affiliated with the Faculty of Law and Administration at the University of Warsaw. Co-author of selected publications: · Gmurzyńska E., Morek R. (eds.), Mediacje. Teoria i praktyka, Warszawa 2024; · dr Paweł Drembkowski, dr Grzegorz Kowalski (eds.), Ustawa o wspieraniu i resocjalizacji nieletnich. Komentarz, Warszawa 2023; · Cybulko A., Siedlecka-Andrychowicz A., Porównanie statusu mediatora w Polsce i wybranych krajach europejskich, Warszawa 2024.

Olga Shenk

Partner

CMS Cameron McKenna Nabarro Olswang

Ukraine

Olga Shenk

Partner

CMS Cameron McKenna Nabarro Olswang

Ukraine

Olga is a Partner and Head of the Dispute Resolution and Compliance practice group at CMS Cameron McKenna Nabarro Olswang’s Kyiv office. She has more than 15 years’ experience in highly complex litigation and arbitration proceedings in Ukraine and abroad, including in international investment and commercial arbitrations (under ICSID, UNCITRAL, LCIA, ICC, SCC, VIAC, ICAC rules), enforcement of arbitral awards in Ukraine and abroad, and cross-border litigation. Olga efficiently handles all kinds of disputes, from straightforward claims to complex, high-value, challenging ones in a way that meets clients’ commercial objectives, whether that is to litigate aggressively, arbitrate, or conduct employment mediation. With domestic litigation, Olga has not only in-depth experience in commercial dispute resolution cases, but also specialist knowledge of sectors such as IT, agribusiness, pharmaceuticals, insurance, energy and banking. Olga’s practice also covers tax and compliance; Olga has conducted numerous compliance investigations of alleged/reported corrupt practices and regularly delivers anti-corruption trainings for management and compliance officers of top-ranked international businesses. Olga is a recommended lawyer in the field of International Arbitration and Litigation by Best Lawyers 2022 rankings.

Paul Austin

Senior Vice President

HIGHGATE

United Kingdom

Paul Austin

Senior Vice President

HIGHGATE

United Kingdom

Paul has 20 years of dispute resolution, litigation support and business intelligence experience and has led cross-border cases in many challenging jurisdictions for governments, law firms and corporate clients. Paul, a former disputes lawyer, is regularly instructed to support sovereign and commercial disputes on both the claimant and defendant side and has expert insight into the complexities of state immunity laws and their impact on enforcement of judgments and awards, as well as expertise in enforcement, asset-tracing and settlement negotiations. Paul started his career at KPMG before joining the Foreign & Commonwealth Office, where he spent time in Afghanistan. He later ran his own investigations firm before qualifying as a solicitor and working at one of London’s leading disputes law firms. Paul has a BA from Durham University and a Master of Laws from the University of Law.

Philipp Kurek

Partner

Signature Litigation

United Kingdom

Philipp Kurek

Partner

Signature Litigation

United Kingdom

Philipp specialises in international arbitration, representing clients and providing strategic legal advice in both institutional and ad hoc arbitration proceedings across a wide range of sectors and regions. Philipp’s practice includes both investment arbitration, as well as commercial arbitration under all major institutional rules. Philipp’s investment arbitration expertise (including under the ICSID and UNCITRAL Rules) has seen him represent clients operating in several global industries, including technology, telecommunications, energy, infrastructure, logistics, real estate, financial services, tax, media, health care, and aerospace. Philipp’s focus on global arbitration has led to him representing international clients in claims against several states in the following regions: Central and South America, the Middle East, Europe (including in particular Central and Eastern Europe) and Asia. Philipp also regularly acts for clients in commercial arbitrations around the world, and in this context has acted for clients in relation to a wide variety of disputes, including joint venture, shareholder, finance, private equity/M&A, regulatory, and pharma disputes, as well as many other contractual and non-contractual claims.

J-P Pitt

Director

Hereford Litigation

United Kingdom

J-P Pitt

Director

Hereford Litigation

United Kingdom

J-P is an experienced litigation funder with a particular focus on asset recovery and judgment enforcement. J-P also has deep experience in funding and managing litigation assets across numerous jurisdictions and sectors, including group actions, bilateral treaty arbitration, and commercial litigation. Hereford Litigation is a London-based third-party funder active across legal assets, with a global remit. The team includes two leading KCs and brings considerable experience across law, third party funding and special situations investing. J-P is an English solicitor and, prior to commencing a career in legal services, he served as a British Army officer for 14 years with the Scots Guards.

Irina Tymczyszyn

Arbitrator and Counsel

Tymczyszyn Arbitration

United Kingdom

Irina Tymczyszyn

Arbitrator and Counsel

Tymczyszyn Arbitration

United Kingdom

Irina Tymczyszyn FCIArb is an English lawyer and a well-known international arbitration specialist. Over the last 20 years, Irina has acted as counsel and arbitrator in multiple international commercial arbitration proceedings seated around the world. She has considerable experience in multi-jurisdictional cross-border disputes. Irina specialises in investment and post-M&A disputes, shareholders’ disputes (often involving allegations of fraud), commodity trading, construction, energy and natural resources disputes.

Paddy Beiner

Group Managing Director

Bearstone

Germany

Paddy Beiner

Group Managing Director

Bearstone

Germany

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Dr. Tomáš Klvaňa

Senior Consultant

CEC Group

Czech Republic

Dr. Tomáš Klvaňa

Senior Consultant

CEC Group

Czech Republic

Dr. Tomáš Klvaňa is a senior Czech international public affairs consultant. He was a spokesman and advisor to the Czech president and the Czech government’s communications coordinator for the missile defense program. He was a Shorenstein Fellow at Harvard University and is a visiting professor at New York University in Prague.

Adelina Prokop

Partner

Clifford Chance

Poland

Adelina Prokop

Partner

Clifford Chance

Poland

Adelina Prokop, a qualified Polish advocate, is a partner in the Clifford Chance Warsaw Litigation & Dispute Resolution Department. She focuses on dispute resolution in commercial, financial and international law. In particular, she specialises in investment arbitration. Adelina has vast experience acting for clients in court and arbitration proceedings gained in Clifford Chance’s Warsaw and London offices. She acts for foreign investors in international investment arbitration. She has acted in arbitration proceedings in Paris, London, Geneva, Brussels and Warsaw. She represents banks, financial institutions and auditors before the common courts and the Court of Justice of the EU. She has also advised clients from the energy, telecommunications, infrastructure and real estate sectors, as well as in disputes concerning unfair competition and M&A. Clients perceive Adelina as “a highly intelligent, thoughtful associate and an excellent advocate” (Legal 500 EMEA 2021) and appreciate her „” her in terms of accuracy”” in arbitration and contentious banking matters (Chambers Europe 2021). She is also recognised by Who’s Who Legal, an international legal directory, as a Future Leader in arbitration proceedings in Poland.

Steve Young

CEO

Association of Corporate Investigators

Switzerland

Steve Young

CEO

Association of Corporate Investigators

Switzerland

Steve served 20 years in UK law enforcement investigating economic crime specialising in the pro-active investigation of Banking Fraud, Bribery & Corruption, Whistleblowing and Money Laundering. This was followed by 6 years at Citigroup Inc. as EMEA Regional Director of Investigations, and 8 years as Barclays Bank Plc, Global Head of Investigations for Investment Banking & Wealth Management. Steve is currently Head of Anti-Fraud & Investigations at Banque Lombard Odier, based in Geneva and is the Chief Executive Officer of the Association Corporate Investigators (ACi). To date, 43 years of international economic crime experience in both a law enforcement and corporate environment.

Marek Jeżewski, PhD

Partner/Head of arbitration & complex commercial disputes

Eversheds Sutherland Poland

Poland

Marek Jeżewski, PhD

Partner/Head of arbitration & complex commercial disputes

Eversheds Sutherland Poland

Poland

Marek specializes in litigation, investment and commercial arbitration. He represents clients in disputes under different sets of rules, including ICSID, UNCITRAL, SCC, ICC, Swiss Rules of International Arbitration and others. Marek has given lectures on International Economic Law, International Investment Law and EU Economic Law at Polish and foreign universities. He is the author of the leading Polish monograph on international investment arbitration, and is also the author of numerous publications, published both in Poland and abroad. For several years he represented Poland in the work of the United Nations Commission on International Trade Law (UNCITRAL), participating in work, inter alia, on the rules of transparency in international investment arbitration. Marek has long been recognized as a leading arbitration and dispute lawyer in Poland. He is highly ranked by Chambers Global, Chambers Europe and The Legal 500 EMEA.

Ania Farren

Partner

Fieldfisher

United Kingdom

Ania Farren

Partner

Fieldfisher

United Kingdom

Ania is a Partner at Fieldfisher. She is a highly experienced practitioner who advises and represents States and corporate entities in a wide variety of international dispute resolution and public international law matters, including commercial and investment treaty arbitrations. She has over 20 years of experience as counsel; She has acted as counsel in disputes conducted under all of the major arbitration rules including ICC, ICSID, ICSID Additional Facility, LCIA and SCC. She is Chair of the ICC UK Committee for Arbitration and ADR and Co-Chair of the International Arbitration Charity Ball. She also sits as an Arbitrator and is a member of Arbitra. She previously worked at a leading third party funder.

Mikołaj (Miko) Burzec

Independent litigation funding advisor

Poland

Mikołaj (Miko) Burzec

Independent litigation funding advisor

Poland

Mikołaj (Miko) Burzec is an independent litigation funding advisor who is helping claimants and law firms secure financing for their claims in various jurisdictions around the globe. He also supports investors in their fundraising efforts and can assist with litigation risk insurance products and FX options for law firms and funds. An advisor’s real value lies in connections, with access to more information, more investors, and more funding companies than a client would have by randomly googling it. The good ones spend time developing relationships with investors and funders to get a feel for their funding requirements: which funders welcome claims from particular jurisdictions, which investors prefer what types of cases, and who has the lowest fees. Miko provided advice to one of the world’s largest investment companies with over $7.2 trillion in assets under management and several public pension funds located across the U.S. He is also an international American football and flag football referee.

Dr. Ileana M. Smeureanu

Counsel

JONES DAY

France

Dr. Ileana M. Smeureanu

Counsel

JONES DAY

France

Ileana Smeureanu concentrates her practice on international commercial and investor-State arbitration. She represents clients from Europe, Africa, and the Middle East throughout the whole arbitral process, covering a wide range of disputes and a variety of jurisdictions. Before joining Jones Day, Ileana worked in London as a research assistant to a renowned international arbitrator and was an associate with the International Law Institute (ILI) in Washington, D.C. During her doctoral studies, Ileana trained with the ICC Court of Arbitration, the Singapore International Arbitration Centre, and four international law firms in Paris and Singapore. Ileana is author of the book Confidentiality in International Commercial Arbitration (Kluwer Law International, 2011). She coauthored the English translation of the Romanian arbitration law (ICCA International Handbook on Commercial Arbitration, 74th Suppl., May 2013) and has published and spoke on numerous topics with special focus on Eastern Europe. She is a member of the New York State Bar Association, the Bucharest Bar Association, and the young international groups of several prominent arbitral institutions.

Piotr Bytnerowicz

Dispute Resolution Counsel and Arbitrator

ByArb

Poland

Piotr Bytnerowicz

Dispute Resolution Counsel and Arbitrator

ByArb

Poland

Piotr is a seasoned dispute resolution lawyer specialising in arbitration and other forms of alternative dispute resolution. He has gained his experience working for eighteen years at top international law firms in Warsaw and London (White & Case, Clifford Chance and CMS Cameron McKenna), as well as in-house in Australia, specifically in relation to a mega arbitration dispute concerning a major LNG project. ​ Piotr works as lead and co-counsel on significant international and domestic arbitrations and represents clients in Polish state court proceedings. He also frequently acts as a sole, presiding or co-arbitrator. Piotr’s main areas of specialisation include disputes related to M&A, real estate, construction and energy projects. However, throughout his career, Piotr has successfully represented clients in all sorts of disputes. Therefore, he is confident handling even the most unusual and challenging problems. ​ Piotr is a member of the ICC Commission on Arbitration and ADR and a Fellow of the Chartered Institute of Arbitrators. He is also one of the founders and a Vice-President of the Arbitration Association for Central and Eastern Europe (ArbCEE). ​ He is recommended by Who is Who Legal in the Arbitration category, as well as by Chambers & Partners in the Dispute Resolution category.

Dominik Nagly

Senior Portfolio Manager and Co-Founder

Fidera

United Kingdom

Dominik Nagly

Senior Portfolio Manager and Co-Founder

Fidera

United Kingdom

Dominik is a Senior Portfolio Manager and Co-Founder at Fidera. Fidera is a special situations focused investment firm based in London and Luxembourg. Dominik started his investing career in 2008. Prior to co-founding Fidera in 2019, Dominik was a Partner at Macrosynergy where he led special situations opportunities investing. Before that, he was at Government of Singapore Investment Corporation and Brevan Howard.

Andrew de Roy

Founder

Bearstone

Poland

Andrew de Roy

Founder

Bearstone

Poland

[Details to follow]

Joanna Kisielińska-Garncarek

Partner

GESSEL Attorneys at law

Poland

Joanna Kisielińska-Garncarek

Partner

GESSEL Attorneys at law

Poland

[details to follow]

Adrian Andrychowski

Counsel

JDP

Poland

Adrian Andrychowski

Counsel

JDP

Poland

Adrian Andrychowski is a counsel at JDP, one of the fastest-growing independent law firms in Poland, known for its strong focus on heavyweight litigation and arbitration. Adrian leads the firm’s commercial & corporate disputes team, handling complex and high-value commercial litigation cases and shareholder disputes. He specialises in financial services disputes, civil fraud, and asset recovery matters, with additional expertise in the international enforcement of judgments, injunctions, and arbitral awards. The majority of Adrian’s cases are international in scope, and he has been recognised by legal directories for his ability to work across different geographical jurisdictions. Adrian has a keen interest in tech-related disputes and litigation funding in matters related to mass consumer claims.

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al. Jerozolimskie 65/79, 00-697 Warsaw, Poland

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On April 18, 2024, Warsaw hosted the international one-day conference "Asset Recovery CEE."

The event focused on critical aspects of asset recovery in the Central and Eastern European (CEE) region. Topics included envisioning asset recovery in Ukraine, reflecting on the past year’s sanctions and future trends, piercing the corporate veil, enforcing against sovereign states, litigation funding in the CEE region, managing risk in greenwashing enforcement, and the role of technology in asset recovery.

Discussions explored strategies for effective asset recovery in Ukraine, the complexities of holding individuals accountable for corporate wrongdoing, legal frameworks for recovering assets from sovereign entities, the current state and future prospects of litigation funding, practical approaches to managing risk in cases of greenwashing, and the latest advancements in technology for asset tracing and recovery. The conference provided a platform for professionals to exchange knowledge and foster collaboration in advancing asset recovery practices in the CEE region.

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The conference will take place 3 April 2025, in Warsaw, Poland

The conference will be held at Warsaw Presidential Hotel, al. Jerozolimskie 65/79, 00-697 Warsaw, Poland

The conference is primarily aimed at professionals involved in the field of asset recovery in Central and Eastern Europe, including law enforcement officers, lawyers, investigators, forensic accountants, and compliance professionals.

All panels will be conducted in English.

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