Gain mastery of offshore issues, meet key industry players and learn everything you need to know about Offshore Financial Centers - whether you are a buyer, provider or investigator of Offshore products and services.
You will gain deep knowledge about:
- Legislative and political initiatives
- Tax and legal developments
- Offshore products and services
- How offshore jurisdictions vary
Many successful businesspeople and investors have, at one time or another, considered going offshore. It's a natural thought-process as their wealth increases.
At The OffshoreAlert Conference, you will learn how and why the world's biggest corporations and High Net Worth Individuals use offshore structures to minimize risk and maximize protection
If you are a prospective offshore client, you will learn whether going offshore is right for you. If you are an existing offshore client, you will learn about recent developments that may affect your assets and structures.
Experts in the areas of offshore products and services, wealth planning, tax, law, regulations, and compliance will help you navigate the fast-paced, ever-changing, complex world of offshore finance.
You will meet successful, knowledgeable, wealthy, influential and powerful people in all areas of international finance – from all over the world. Approximately half of attendees live in the world's major countries and the other half live and work in the world's major offshore financial centers.
There will be more than 50 speakers, including:
- Offshore Judges from the Bahamas, Bermuda, British Virgin Islands and Cayman Islands;
- Attorneys with Leading Offshore Law Firms such as Appleby, Mourant Ozannes, and Walkers.
- Tax & Legal Experts who advise foreign clients on how to go offshore legally;
- Daniel Reeves and John McDougal, who are spearheading the IRS' clampdown on offshore tax evasion;
- Jeffrey Owens, Head of Tax at the OECD;
- Liquidation & Insolvency Experts who will explain your remedies if your offshore structures go wrong;
The OffshoreAlert Conference is where buyers, providers and investigators of offshore products and services meet in an independent forum to discuss everything that's significant in international finance.
To register or find out more about OffshoreAlert' s 2012 event that will take place at The Ritz-Carlton, South Beach in Miami Beach, Florida on April 29, April 30 and May 1 visit: www.OffshoreAlertConference.com
OffshoreAlert holds an annual conference with major offshore speakers at which you will get the latest inside news about all aspects of conducting business in and through OFCs, with sessions for clients, providers and investigators of financial products and services. Special emphasis is placed in the latest U.S. government and IRS reporting requirements and rules.
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OFFSHORE FINANCE: THE FULL 360˚ 60+ IN-THE-KNOW SPEAKERS
Experts in the areas of tax, law, wealth
Gain mastery of offshore issues, meet key industry planning, regulations, compliance, politics,
players and learn everything you need to know about investigations, money laundering, fraud
Offshore Financial Centers – whether you are a buyer, and asset recovery will help you navigate
the ever-changing, complex world of
provider or investigator of offshore products and offshore finance.
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25+ INVALUABLE SESSIONS
You will find out why OFCs are used by
the world's biggest corporations and High
Net Worth individuals to minimize risk and
maximize protection and what to do if
things go wrong.
• Legislative and political initiatives
• Tax and legal developments
• Offshore products and services
• How offshore jurisdictions vary
MEET KEY INDUSTRY PLAYERS
• Commercial Court Judges from the Bahamas, Bermuda, British Virgin 10 TH ANNIVERSARY EVENT
Islands and Cayman Islands
To celebrate a decade of conferences,
• Daniel Reeves and John McDougal, who are spearheading the IRS'
we have put together our...
clampdown on offshore tax evasion
• Jeffrey Owens, Head of Tax at the OECD • Best-Ever Agenda
• Directors of the Whistleblower Offices of the IRS, SEC and the CFTC – • Best Line-Up of Speakers
First-Time Ever on One Panel • Biggest Event
• Liquidation & Insolvency Experts from onshore and offshore jurisdictions
• Attorneys with Leading Offshore Law Firms such as Appleby, Mourant
Ozannes, and Walkers.
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3. SPEAKERS
MEET THE PLAYERS
Jeffrey Owens
Director, Centre for Tax Policy and Administration,
OECD (France) THERE’S NOTHING ELSE LIKE IT
Jeffrey is a public finance expert who specializes
on the tax implications of the globalization of Turn to your right and you might be speaking with the head of
national economies, the broader policy issues the IRS' offshore programs and initiatives or the Head of Tax
that arise in the areas of cross-border director
and portfolio investment and tax administration. at the OECD, turn to your left and you might be able to engage
a leading offshore provider in a conversation about how to
John McDougal legally minimize your taxes. Somewhere in the crowd could
Special Trial Attorney, IRS (Virginia)
be someone whose assets you are trying to locate or an
For the last 12 years, John has been assigned
to the IRS' Offshore Compliance Initiative.
offshore commercial court judge before whom you might
have to argue a legal case.
The OffshoreAlert Conference attracts influential, wealthy
Ian Kawaley and well-connected representatives from the private and
Commercial Court Judge, Bermuda Supreme public sectors in multiple onshore and offshore jurisdictions
Court (Bermuda)
Ian is a Commercial Court judge at Bermuda
who have an interest in OFCs.
Supreme Court and will become Bermuda's
Chief Justice, effective April 1, 2012
Sean McKessy
Chief, Office of the Whistleblower, U. S. Securities
and Exchange
Sean leads a program that handles tips and
complaints from securities fraud whistleblowers
and helps determine awards for information that
leads to successful enforcement actions.
Daniel Reeves
Senior Advisor, IRS Offshore Compliance Initiative
(New Jersey)
Dan has developed many of the investigative
techniques currently being used to identify U. S.
taxpayers with offshore bank accounts and has
led a number of high-profile investigations that
involved the use of John Doe summonses to
obtain offshore banking records.
Charles Quin QC
Justice, Grand Court of the Cayman Islands
(Cayman Islands)
Charles was appointed as a judge at the Grand
Court of the Cayman Islands in September, 2008
after many years in private practice in Cayman
Neville Adderley
Justice, Supreme Court of the Bahamas (Bahamas)
Neville was appointed as a Bahamas Supreme
Court judge in September, 2007 after 28 years as
an attorney in private practice.
4. CONTINUING EDUCATION CREDITS
50+ IN-THE-KNOW SPEAKERS (CLE & CPE) are available
Andrew Bodnar Jason Sharman
Barrister, Matrix Chambers (London) Author, The Money Laundry: Regulating Criminal Finance in the Global Economy
Arnoldo Lacayo (Australia)
Attorney, Astigarraga Davis (Miami) Jeffrey Owens
Ben Arrindell Director - Centre for Tax Policy and Administration, OECD (France)
Member, United Nations Committee of Experts on International Cooperation in Jeremy Walton
Tax Matters (Barbados) Partner, Appleby (Cayman Islands)
Brian Grow Jesse Drucker
Special Enterprise Correspondent, Thomson Reuters (Atlanta) Investigative Reporter, Bloomberg News (New York)
Brian Simms, QC John Boaden
Senior Partner, Lennox Paton (Bahamas) Managing Director, Investigations, Martin Kenney & Co, Solicitors (BVI)
Brodrick Penn John Moscow
Director, Investment Business, British Virgin Islands Financial Services Partner, Baker Hostetler, Counsel to Irving Picard, SIPA Trustee for the liquidation
Commission (BVI) of Bernard L. Madoff Investment Securities LLC (New York)
Charles Quin QC John Staples
Justice, Grand Court of the Cayman Islands (Cayman Islands) Managing Partner, Burt, Staples & Maner, LLP (Washington, DC)
Chris Carey Mark Longbottom
Editor, Sharesleuth.com (Michigan) Partner, Kinetic Partners (Cayman Islands)
Christopher Culp Martin Kenney
Adjunct Professor of Finance, The University of Chicago Booth School of Business Managing Partner, Martin Kenney & Co., Solicitors (BVI)
(Chicago) Martin Livingston
Christopher Simpson Partner, Maples and Calder (Cayman Islands)
Counsel, O'Neal Webster (BVI) Matthew Lindsay
Daniel Reeves Partner, Fraser Milner Casgrain LLP (Calgary)
Senior Advisor, IRS Offshore Compliance Initiative (New Jersey) Maureen Ward
Dan Wise Partner, Bennett Jones, Counsel to the SEC Receiver of the Weizhen Tang Ponzi
Litigation Partner, Martin Kenney & Co., Solicitors (BVI) Case (Toronto)
Daniel Carnio Costa Michael Burns
Honorable Judge, First Bankruptcy Court of São Paulo (Brazil) Managing Partner, Appleby (BVI)
David Cay Johnston Neville Adderley
Pulitzer Prize-Winning Journalist (NY) Justice, Supreme Court of the Bahamas (Bahamas)
David Hayton Paul Singerman
Justice, Caribbean Court of Justice (Trinidad & Tobago) Shareholder, Berger Singerman, General Counsel to Judge Herbert Stettin, Trustee
David Marchant for Rothstein, Rosenfeld, Adler, P.A. (Miami)
Editor, OffshoreAlert (Miami) Ricardo Andrade Saadi
Edward Bannister QC Director, Department of Asset Recovery and International Cooperation, Ministry of
Presiding Judge, British Virgin Islands Commercial Court (BVI) Justice (Brazil) (Subject to Final Confirmation)
Edward Davis, Jr. Richard Coles
Founding Shareholder, Astigarraga Davis, Co-General Counsel to the Joint Chairman, Cayman Finance (Cayman Islands)
Liquidators of Stanford International Bank, Ltd. (Miami) Rodney Gallagher
Eric Havian Partner, Gaffney, Gallagher & Philip (Barbados)
Partner, Philips & Cohen (San Francisco) Roisin Cater
Erika Kelton Principal, Carne Global Financial Services (Cayman Islands)
Partner, Phillips & Cohen LLP (Washington, DC) Ruth Promislow
Dr. Eronides Aparecido Rodrigues dos Santos Partner, Bennett Jones (Toronto)
Bankruptcy Prosecutor, São Paulo (Brazil) Sandie Corbett
Francoise Hendy Managing Partner, Walkers (BVI)
Lead Negotiator, Barbados Treaty Negotiating Team (Barbados) Sean McKessy
Heather Lowe Chief, Office of the Whistleblower, U. S. Securities and Exchange Commission
Legal Counsel & Director of Government Affairs, Global Financial Integrity (Washington, DC)
(Washington, DC) Simon Dickson
Herbert Stettin Partner, Mourant Ozannes (Cayman Islands)
Retired Judge & Trustee for Rothstein Rosenfeldt Adler, P.A. (Miami) Stefanie Ostfeld
Hugh Dickson Policy Advisor, Global Witness (Washington, DC)
Partner, Grant Thornton (UK) Steve Whitlock
Ian Kawaley Director, Whistleblower Office, Internal Revenue Service (Washington, DC)
Commercial Court Judge, Bermuda Supreme Court (Bermuda) Steven Cantor
Jack Blum Managing Partner, Cantor & Webb (Miami)
Chairman, Tax Justice Network (USA) Thomas Lowe QC
James Earp Barrister, Wilberforce Chambers (UK)
Partner, Grant Thornton (London) Tim Ridley
James McConvill Former Chaiman, Cayman Islands Monetary Authority (Cayman Islands)
Lecturer, Victoria University Law School (Australia) & Consultant, Appleby (BVI) Vincente Martinez
Jamison Firestone Director, Whistleblower Office, U. S. Commodity Futures Trading Commission
Managing Partner, Firestone Duncan (Russia & UK) (Washington, DC)
5. SCHEDULE
A MUST-ATTEND EVENT
SUNDAY, APRIL 29, 2012 MONDAY, APRIL 30, 2012
4:45 Screening of Sundance Film
Festival 2012's 'We're Not Broke' The Offshore Invasion: A Practical Guide to
tax documentary Offshore Asset Recovery
TIME: 4:45 pm - 6:30 pm
Practical "how to" discussion on the recovery of offshore assets,
Special screening and panel discussion of We're Not Broke, a including the legal aspects of identifying, freezing and, ultimately,
documentary about corporate tax avoidance in the United States seizing assets that are the proceeds of crime and fraud.
that premiered at The Sundance Film Festival on January 22, 2012.
In attendance will be the directors/producers, Victoria Bruce and
Karin Hayes, and several of the participants in the movie.
The Offshore World in a Modern Global Economy
The practical reasons why OFCs are used in international business,
6:30 Oceanside Welcome Cocktail Reception highlighting that the use of OFCs is not just tax-driven.
TIME: 6:30 pm - 8:30 pm
Sponsored by:
2:45 OECD Peer Reviews of Offshore Jurisdictions
MONDAY, APRIL 30, 2012
An examination of the review process, the methodology and
assessment criteria and terms of reference and identification of its
shortcomings.
7:15 Breakfast: Monday Ponzi Tsunami: Lessons Learned (So Far) from
TIME: 7:15 AM - 8:15 AM the Proliferation of Ponzi Litigation
An analysis of lessons learned in attempts to unwind some of the
8:25 Opening Remarks more notorious Ponzi cases.
TIME: 8:25 AM - 8:30 AM Foreign Media Coverage of OFCs: Informed or
Ignorant?
8:30 Do Offshore Financial Centers get what they deserve from foreign
journalists or do they suffer from clichés and stereotypes?
Taxing Avoiders & Evaders: An Update
An update on the ongoing efforts by the world's major countries to
collect taxes from High Net Worth Individuals and big corporations. 3:45 Fraser Milner Casgrain LLP Refreshment Break
TIME: 3:45 PM - 4:15 PM
Sponsored by:
10:00 Refreshment Break
TIME: 10:00 pm - 10:30 pm
4:15 Sharing Tax Information Internationally
How tax information is shared between countries and where are
10:30 we heading?
The Rise of Offshore Courts: The Judicial Clash of the Titans: When Asset Forfeiture
Prespective Proceedings & Insolvencies Collide
Judges in Bermuda, the British Islands and the Cayman Islands will
This session will focus on the complex interplay between insolvency
discuss key rulings and judicial issues affecting foreign individuals as a tool to assist victims of crime and forfeiture regimes that seek to
and businesses. do the same along with possible suggestions to avoid these conflicts.
12:00 Appleby Oceanside Luncheon
China and OFCs: The Dark Side
TIME: 12:00 pm - 1:30 pm How Chinese Firms & Individuals Use OFCs to Commit Crimes,
Sponsored by: Including Tax Evasion & Securities Fraud.
1:30 5:30 Oceanside Cocktail Reception
TIME: 5:30 pm - 7:30 pm
Enticing the Top Echelon: How the IRS, SEC and Sponsored by:
CFTC Attract High-Level Whistleblowers
For the first time in one public forum, the chiefs of the SEC, CFTC
and IRS whistleblower offices will discuss Whistleblowing as a tool
to fight financial crime.
REGISTER TODAY! Visit OffshoreAlertConference.com to register online OR call +1-305-372-6296
6. TUESDAY, MAY 1, 2012
7:15 Breakfast: Monday 1:45
TIME: 7:15 am - 8:15 am Segregated Account Companies and the
Emergence of the 'Incorporated Cell'
8:15 Russia Exposed: The Sergei Magnitsky Affair This presentation explores the use of segregated accounts companies
This session will look at evidence of corruption by the Russian and the emergence of ISAC legislation in the offshore world.
judiciary, politicians, police, tax officials, bankers and the mafia, Finding the Beneficial Owner: Making Sense of
analyze the use of offshore banks and structures to assist them,
and look at what is being done to hold participants accountable -
the Changing Landscape
both onshore and offshore. Learn about the various standards and statutes out there and join in
the discussion to generate some practical ideas and policy initiatives
to help the identification process.
9:30 Protecting Intellectual Property Using Offshore
Vehicles The Role of OFCs in Global Corruption
Utilizing offshore structures to protect intellectual property, provide A panel of distinguished international fraud fighters will give their
greater flexibility of exploitation and reduce the tax burden on the insights on how OFCs are being used by corrupt actors and what is
related income. being done to stop them.
Are OFCs Fairly or Overly Protective of
Non-Executive/Independent Directors in their 2:45 The Future of Structured Finance
Legislation and Case Law? A discussion of drivers and impediments to the future of this important
An independent offshore fund director and a professional liquidator, area of financial activity for offshore financial centers and for the
each 'represented' by an attorney, argue the pros and cons of issuers/users of these products.
whether OFCs protect independent directors too much at the
expense of creditors.
Offshore Investigations & Regulatory Regimes:
Brazilian Bankruptcy Law A Practical Guide
A look at developments in Brazilian bankruptcy extension law, This session will look at the use of offshore companies (particularly
international cooperation in trans-border insolvency and criminal BVI, Cayman, Bermuda and Jersey companies) for IPOs on international
cases, and third party funding of fraud and asset recovery claims. stock exchanges - from the initial planning stages to actual listing.
Start-to-Finish Explanation of Listing Offshore
10:30 Refreshment Break IBCs on the World's Major Stock Exchanges
TIME: 10:30 am - 11:00 am
Investigators who are experienced in conducting investigations and
gathering intelligence in Offshore Financial Centers discuss their trade.
11:00
Exploiting Tax Loopholes: How U. S. Companies 3:45 Fraser Milner Casgrain LLP Refreshment Break
Like Google Shift Profits Offshore TIME: 3:45 PM - 4:15 PM
An analysis of how big U. S. corporations like Google reduce tax Sponsored by:
liabilities and maximize profits by booking earnings offshore.
Attacks on Offshore Trusts 4:15 Global Shell Game: Who's Worse - Onshore or
Recent developments concerning the vulnerability of offshore trusts.
Offshore?
Australia-based Professor Jason Sharman tried to open up anonymous
FATCA: The Institutional and Individual Client shell companies and bank accounts using fake ID and other sham
Impact of Compliance documentation in onshore and offshore jurisdictions, while U. S.-based
Two US tax attorneys will explain the impact of the Foreign Account Thomson Reuters journalist Brian Grow studied the formation of shell
Tax Compliance Act on foreign financial institutions and their companies in U. S. jurisdictions such as Wyoming and Delaware. In this
individual customers. panel, they will discuss their results
12:15 Cayman National Corporation Oceanside Luncheon 5:15 Closing Remarks
TIME: 12:15 pm - 1:45 am TIME: 5:15 pm - 5:30 pm
Sponsored by:
7. SPECIAL EVENTS
NETWORKING COCKTAIL RECEPTIONS SHEDULE
UNIQUE AND POWERFUL
Whether in a plush, lounge setting or a spectacular oceanfront cabana setting, our networking receptions
have all the glamour of tropical South Beach. Featuring DJs, cigar rollers, specialty cocktails, hors
d’oeuvres and plenty of networking. Attendees look forward to these fun and exciting events every year.
SUNDAY, APRIL 29, 2012
SPONSORED BY:
Welcome Cocktail Reception
Sunday, April 29, 2012 from 6:30 PM - 8:30 PM
3:00 pm - 6:30 pm
Check-in Desk Opens
Oceanside Cocktail Reception 4:45 pm - 6:30 pm
Monday, April 30, 2012 from 5:30 PM - 7:30 PM
Screening & Panel Discussion
of We're Not Broke Tax Film
6:30 pm - 8:30 pm
Welcome Cocktail Reception
FILM SCREENING
Screening of Sundance Film Festival 2012's We're Not Broke tax documentary MONDAY, APRIL 30, 2012
Special screening, followed by a panel discussion between onshore and offshore panelists, of 7:15 am - 8:15 am
We're Not Broke, a documentary about corporate tax avoidance in the United States that premiered at
Breakfast
The Sundance Film Festival on January 22, 2012. In attendance will be the directors/producers, Victoria
Bruce and Karin Hayes, and several of the participants in the movie, including attorney Jack Blum,
investigative reporter Jesse Drucker and OffshoreAlert publisher David Marchant. 8:15 am - 5:30 pm
In Session
We're Not Broke Film Screening:
Sunday, April 29, 2012 from 4:45 PM - 6:30 PM 5:30 pm - 7:30 pm
Beach Party Cocktail Reception
TUESDAY, MAY 1, 2012
7:15 am - 8:15 am
Breakfast
8:15 am - 5:15 pm
In Session
5:15 pm - 5:30 pm
Closing Remarks
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