Evelyn Baltodano Sheehan focuses her practice on advising high-net-worth individuals, institutional clients, executives and trustees in cross-border investigations and enforcement actions involving allegations of fraud, money laundering, sanctions violations and other forms of alleged misconduct. She formulates offensive and defensive global litigation strategies, including in relation to civil and criminal asset forfeiture, trust disputes, and insolvency litigation. Ms. Baltodano Sheehan has significant experience in high-stakes matters where there is tension between parallel asset forfeiture and insolvency proceedings. As a result of her experience and expertise, she has been recognized by many directories, most recently listed by Chambers and Partners USA and Private Client Global Elite.

Ms. Baltodano Sheehan also has an active international asset recovery practice, including the enforcement of judgments and arbitration awards and the representation of victims of crime. Her matters regularly involve legal actions across multiple jurisdictions and mobilizing both public and private remedies. She has unique experience designing recovery strategies for claimants and insurers in the cryptocurrency industry. As a result of her experience and expertise, Citywealth recently recognized her among the “Top 20 USA Crypto Power Women.”

Before joining Kobre & Kim, Ms. Baltodano Sheehan served as a prosecutor at the U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) as an Assistant U.S. Attorney for the U.S. Attorney's Office for the Southern District of Florida. Most recently, she served as Deputy Chief of the Asset Forfeiture Division for that office, where she was responsible for overseeing complex cross-border investigations related to international corruption, foreign bribery, white-collar fraud, narcotics trafficking, organized crime and violations of anti-money laundering laws. While at DOJ, Ms. Baltodano Sheehan received various distinguished service awards for her work on asset forfeiture matters to recover illicit proceeds on behalf of victims of crime.

During her tenure at DOJ, Ms. Baltodano Sheehan worked for over six years to litigate the complex forfeiture matters related to the infamous US $1.4 billion fraud scheme led by Scott Rothstein, particularly with respect to the tension between parallel asset forfeiture and bankruptcy proceedings. The prosecution and forfeiture resulted in the successful conviction and imprisonment of 29 total defendants, and concluded in the full restitution of the hundreds of victims involved. As a result of her work in this case, Ms. Baltodano Sheehan was awarded the 2016 U.S. Attorney General’s Distinguished Service Award and was a semi-finalist for the 2010 Daily Business Review’s Most Effective Lawyers Award for Criminal Justice Category.

Ms. Baltodano Sheehan was also a member of the Regional Committee of the Organized Crime and Drug Enforcement Task Force (OCDETF). As a result of her work on two high-profile international money laundering investigations, she earned two National OCDETF Awards.

She has also lectured extensively on the application of asset forfeiture and money laundering laws for the U.S. Department of Justice and a number of federal agencies, including the Federal Bureau of Investigation, the U.S. Department of Defense, the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services and the Drug Enforcement Agency. She continues to be a thought leader in this area, regularly speaking in a number of U.S. and international conferences and events.

Before her time as a prosecutor, Ms. Baltodano Sheehan practiced with White & Case LLP, where she focused on complex commercial litigation, and with Debevoise & Plimpton LLP, where she focused on private equity fund formation and bankruptcy work.

Dara Barkhordar is a highly accomplished litigator specializing in complex, high-value commercial disputes and regulatory investigations. He is qualified as both a barrister and a solicitor.

Mr. Barkhordar has extensive experience handling disputes involving serious allegations of fraud and misconduct and coordinating asset tracing, recovery and enforcement strategies across multiple jurisdictions. He regularly advises administrators and receivers in relation to international sanctions. He is also involved in international trusts and estate litigation and corporate governance disputes.

Prior to joining Kobre & Kim, Mr. Barkhordar practiced law at Joseph Hage Aaronson LLP and Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer LLP. He was called to the Bar of the Middle Temple and completed a pupillage at Twenty Essex Solicitors.

Emily Beirne's practice focuses on advising high net worth individuals and institutional clients on complex cross-border litigation involving allegations of fraud and misconduct, including experience in sanctions-related work. Based in the Middle East since 2014, Ms. Beirne has extensive experience in cross-border disputes involving business interests in the Middle East, the Horn of Africa and Asia. She is particularly familiar with the unique challenges presented by working in these regions and regularly coordinates legal strategies involving the MENA region as well as Europe and other offshore financial centers, particularly the British Virgin Islands and the Cayman Islands.

Ms. Beirne has experience in both offensive and defensive global monetization and dilution activities across a wide range of sectors including infrastructure, healthcare, oil and gas. In serving high net worth individuals, Ms. Beirne focuses her practice on trusts and bankruptcy litigation and often works with a range of advisors, including family offices and other trusted advisors, to coordinate global legal strategies.

Ms Beirne is qualified to practice in England and Wales, Dubai International Financial Center and Abu Dhabi Global Market.

Brandon Bias represents clients in complex commercial litigation, focusing on high-stakes disputes in U.S. state and federal courts. He has represented corporations, financial institutions, energy companies and individuals in a variety of matters, including shareholder takeover disputes, securities class actions, bankruptcy proceedings, antitrust investigations and white collar criminal cases.

Prior to joining the law firm of Kobre & Kim, Mr. Bias practiced law at Susman Godfrey LLP and Davis Polk & Wardwell LLP. He also served as a law clerk to Judge Richard C. Wesley of the United States Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit.

James Booth is a British barrister specializing in cross-border commercial litigation. His experience includes disputes related to financial products and services, bankruptcy proceedings, joint investigations of novel fraud cases, and analysis of the flow of fraudulent funds and U.S. regulatory enforcement matters.

Mr. Booth studied English law and was called to the Bar of Middle Temple.

Michael Brasky focuses his practice on representing institutional and individual clients in complex litigation matters, including bankruptcy matters related to fraud and misconduct. He has extensive experience in all phases of litigation, including prosecution, discovery, motion practice, expert witnesses, evidence, and trials.

Prior to joining Kobre & Kim, Mr. Brasky served as a law clerk to Judge Kiyo A. Matsumoto of the United States District Court for the Eastern District of New York and Judge Stuart M. Bernstein of the United States Bankruptcy Court for the Southern District of New York. Prior to clerking, he practiced law in the New York office of Simpson Thacher & Bartlett LLP.

Jeremy Bressman represents clients in complex international and multi-jurisdictional disputes, including asset recovery, enforcement of judgments and arbitral awards, regulatory and criminal enforcement matters and cross-border investigations. He has represented corporate clients and individuals in the Middle East facing criminal charges and enforcement proceedings, as well as parallel civil litigation. Mr. Bressman also has experience advising companies and individuals on how to enforce and monetize large monetary judgments and arbitration awards, including developing global asset recovery strategies.

Prior to joining the law firm of Kobre & Kim, Mr. Bressman practiced law at Sullivan & Cromwell LLP. Earlier in his career, he clerked for Judge Nancy F. Atlas of the United States District Court for the Southern District of Texas.

Rachel Warren assists clients in finding solutions to high-stakes business and financial disputes. She is particularly experienced in the following areas: securities and structured finance litigation; corporate governance matters; secured and unsecured financing matters; breach of contract claims; real estate investment disputes; and complex commercial litigation arising from transactions in collateralized debt obligations and residential and commercial mortgage-backed securities.

She has extensive experience representing asset managers, hedge funds, private equity funds, shareholders and bondholders, and other institutional investors. Ms. Warren also has experience prosecuting and investigating domestic and cross-border civil securities fraud and structured financial product transactions.

Prior to joining Kobre & Kim, Ms. Warren practiced at Lowenstein Sandler LLP, where she handled securities and structured finance litigation affecting buy-side entities at the state and federal levels, such as civil securities enforcement actions against financial institutions; a comprehensive internal investigation for a prominent asset management firm; and a two-day en banc trial on a $40 million debt financing.

Stephen Astringer focuses his practice on corporate restructuring and insolvency related disputes and has experience representing debtors, secured lenders, committees and other parties of interest in high-stakes restructuring and bankruptcy matters, including chapter 11 and out-of-court workouts. Based full time in Delaware, Mr. Astringer has experience litigating before bankruptcy courts across the United States and the Delaware Court of Chancery.

Before joining Kobre & Kim, Mr. Astringer practiced at Polsinelli PC, where he had a particular focus on representing healthcare debtors in chapter 11. Prior to that, Mr. Astringer also practiced at Grant & Eisenhofer P.A. and clerked for the Honorable William E. Nugent of the New Jersey Superior Court, Appellate Division.

Michael Bahn focuses his practice on white-collar criminal defense and regulatory enforcement matters. He has extensive experience in handling multi-jurisdictional cases and investigations involving alleged violations of anti-corruption, health care fraud and antitrust laws. He also regularly advises U.S. and Asia-based corporations and financial institutions in corporate compliance matters. In 2024, Mr. Bahn was recognized as a "Rising Star" in the top-tier Korean legal publication, Legal Times Korea.

Before joining Kobre & Kim, Mr. Bahn practiced at the Chicago office of Kirkland & Ellis LLP as well as Kim and Chang in Seoul. Before attending law school, Mr. Bahn served as an inspector in the Korean National Police, where he focused on investigating cybercrime.

Eden Benadiva focuses on representing companies and individuals in complex cross-border disputes and litigation. She has experience in adversary proceedings in bankruptcy, asset recovery litigation, Anti-Terrorism Act cases and complex litigation such as class actions and MDLs.

Before joining Kobre & Kim, Ms. Benadiva practiced at Kellogg, Hansen, Todd, Figel & Frederick, PLLC, where she was on the trial team that secured a US $16 billion judgment, the largest in history, against Argentina. Before that, she clerked for the Honorable Allison H. Eid of the United States Court of Appeals for the Tenth Circuit.

Erika Berman is an experienced trial lawyer who represents individuals and institutional clients in government enforcement actions, investigations and complex commercial litigation. Ms. Berman is a Certified Fraud Examiner and has a particular focus on advising clients in connection with government investigations. She has experience in all stages of federal and state litigation, including international arbitration and domestic alternative dispute resolution. Ms. Berman has been selected to the DC Super Lawyers Rising Stars list in 2020, 2021, 2022 and 2023.

Before joining Kobre & Kim, Ms. Berman practiced at Winston & Strawn LLP, where she represented domestic and foreign clients in a variety of industries, including health care, pharmaceuticals, automotive, telecommunications and electronics.

Jake Calvert represents high-net-worth individuals, institutional clients and their executives, politically exposed persons and trustees in international disputes and investigations involving allegations of fraud, corruption, bribery, money laundering and misconduct, as well as those who have been, or are potentially at risk of being, sanctioned by the UK or EU.

Mr. Calvert develops multi-jurisdictional offensive and counter-offensive strategies in connection with the high-stakes scenarios that threaten the liberty, assets or reputations of his international private clients. Mr. Calvert’s work has involved complex disputes and investigations across Europe, North America, the Middle East and numerous offshore jurisdictions, and he has extensive English High Court litigation experience across a range of industry sectors, including oil and gas, banking, cryptocurrency, private equity, technology and mining.

Before joining Kobre & Kim, Mr. Calvert practiced at specialist litigation boutique Cooke, Young & Keidan, where he focused on civil fraud, general commercial litigation and sports disputes.

Henry Cheung has extensive experience representing clients in bondholder disputes and debts enforcement with a nexus to the Asia-Pacific region. Mr. Cheung also represents institutional clients in devising cross-border strategies in support of restructuring negotiation and enforcement of foreign judgment and awards.

Mr. Cheung is specialized in pursuing creditors’ claims involving suspected fraud and regulatory elements, including accounting fraud, asset dissipation, business diversion, fraudulent misrepresentation and conspiracy.  

With a deep understanding of the region, Mr. Cheung helps clients to devise to maximize their return of investment in matters involving international judgment enforcement. Mr. Cheung is familiar with urgent injunctive relief, freezing/gagging applications, as well as the enforcement of foreign/PRC judgment and arbitral awards in Hong Kong.

Furthermore, Mr. Cheung is well-versed in dealing with complex and multi-jurisdictional shareholder and joint venture disputes. He has rich experience dealing with winding up proceedings, asset tracing and recovery. He also maintains practice in general commercial litigation and arbitration, including on contractual dispute, breach of trust and fiduciary duties, professional negligence, intellectual property disputes, defamations, etc. 

Before joining Kobre & Kim, Mr. Cheung practiced in King & Wood Mallesons as well as Fairbairn Catley Low & Kong.

Miranda Ching focuses her practice on advising high-net-worth individuals, institutional clients and their executives in cross-border investigations and government enforcement actions related to allegations of fraud, bribery, corruption and other misconduct. Ms. Ching specializes in counselling clients in high-risk scenarios that threaten their liberty, assets and reputation. She is recognized in The Legal 500 for representing individuals in fraud and white-collar crime cases.

A former UK Serious Fraud Office (SFO) prosecutor and case controller, Ms. Ching has experience handling hundred-million-pound fraud, bribery and corruption cases, responding to search and arrest operations, and executing asset tracing strategies. Ms. Ching is experienced in liaising with domestic and overseas law enforcement agencies to guide clients through the intricacies of multi-jurisdictional investigations.

Ms. Ching currently oversees global sanctions and related enforcement investigations arising out of the Russian sanctions regimes in the UK, EU, U.S. and other countries.

In addition, Ms. Ching also defends high-net-worth individuals charged with financial regulatory misconduct as well as criminal law matters involving extradition and the International Criminal Police Organization (INTERPOL).

Ms. Ching is a Solicitor-Advocate with Higher Rights of Audience in the senior criminal courts of England & Wales. Before joining Kobre & Kim, Ms. Ching practiced at Peters & Peters in London prior to her service at the SFO.

Kunhee Cho is a dual-qualified Korean lawyer and English solicitor focused on complex cross-border litigation involving commercial fraud and misconduct.

Mr. Cho advises clients across multiple sectors including finance, energy and construction on the monetization and dilution of high value claims, judgments and arbitral awards. His cases involve the formulation of multi-jurisdictional strategies across common law and civil code systems, which often engage issues of enforcement of foreign judgments and arbitral awards, asset tracing and recovery, interim relief, disclosure and insolvency.

He has represented clients in English and South Korean courts.  He is well versed in international commercial arbitration and investor-state arbitration, having conducted proceedings in major arbitral institutions around the world (ICC, LCIA, LMAA, PCA, UNCITRAL, KCAB and JCAA).

Before joining Kobre & Kim, Mr. Cho practiced at Kim & Chang’s cross-border litigation and international arbitration group.

Michael Cinnamon represents institutional clients and other investors in high-stakes, cross-border commercial disputes involving global financial markets. He has particular experience in disputes involving complex financial products, such as FX products, swaps and equities. Mr. Cinnamon also has experience in handling cross-border government regulatory and enforcement actions.

Before joining Kobre & Kim, Mr. Cinnamon practiced at Cleary Gottlieb Steen & Hamilton LLP.

Richard Clarke is an English barrister with a focus on resolving complex international commercial disputes, including cross-border claims, civil fraud, and insolvency. He advises corporations, financial institutions, and investors on the enforcement and monetization of high-value claims, financial instruments, judgments and arbitral awards. Richard is frequently sought after by clients to navigate critical situations such as M&A, joint venture, and shareholder disputes, and matters involving distressed debt and restructuring.

He has handled disputes before the High Court and Court of Appeal in London, DIFC Courts, ADGM Courts, and the Court of Justice of the European Union (CJEU), and arbitration awards seated globally (including ICC, LCIA, DIAC, UNCITRAL, LMAA, and ICSID).

With over nine years of experience in the Middle East, Richard has been recognized by Chambers & Partners as "one of the best younger lawyers in the DIFC” and by Legal 500 for having “made a major impact in the region.” with “good legal judgment.”

Victor D. V. Clementino focuses on representing debtors, creditors, investors and other stakeholders in cross-border insolvency and commercial disputes, including those with a nexus to Brazil and Latin America. He has extensive experience in complex cross-border restructuring proceedings, as well as in international commercial litigation and arbitration.

Before joining Kobre & Kim, Mr. Clementino practiced at law firms in São Paulo, Paris and New York.

John Conte has a diverse background in contentious special situations disputes and cross-border insolvency matters. John regularly represents companies, distressed debt funds, financial institutions, foreign liquidators, high net worth individuals, and other stakeholders in chapter 11 and chapter 15 proceedings and other civil cases in state and federal court. John has successfully litigated high-stakes disputes concerning liability management transactions, contested M&A deals, and novel cross-border insolvency issues. John also advises funds on investments related to distressed and special situations across jurisdictions, particularly where recoveries are driven by litigation outcomes, and develops global claims monetization and dilution strategies for clients arising from distressed or defaulted debt and unpaid judgments.

Before joining Kobre & Kim, Mr. Conte practiced in the business restructuring groups at Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher LLP and Weil, Gotshal & Manges LLP. Before becoming an attorney, Mr. Conte served as an infantry officer in the United States Army where he was deployed to Afghanistan in support of Operation Enduring Freedom.