The International Committee community continues to grow! We welcome the following members to our committee:
Stephon S. Grey CFE, CICA, FCPA Educator | CIFA Consulting
Stephon S. Grey is a Certified Fraud Examiner (CFE), a Certified Internal Control Auditor (CICA) and a Forensic CPA Educator. He is the founder and executive head of the Caribbean Institute of Forensic Accounting (CIFA) and the lead expert, managing director and international liaison at CIFA Consulting. He also is an expert panelist at Streamhouse (Switzerland) and the head of Forensic and Investigatory Services at Baker & Partners (U.K.), which specializes in the investigation, litigation and prosecution of financial crimes and the recovery of assets misappropriated by corrupt actors and fraudsters.
Mr. Grey is an international asset-tracing expert and forensic auditor with 20 years of experience, and he has expertise in asset-tracing, contractor audits for oil and gas, corruption investigations, forensic accounting and auditing, follow-the-money investigations and corporate intelligence.
Mr. Grey speaks regularly on asset-tracing and forensics on an international stage. As an asset-tracing expert, he has served as an advisor in the implementation process of asset-recovery agencies in Guyana and Ethiopia, and has served as a forensic and asset-tracing consultant for the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime’s Vienna and Panama offices, and as an expert consultant to develop forensic audit capacity in the Supreme Audit Institutions of Jamaica and Guyana.
Mr. Grey is a member of the International Bar Association, the Association of Certified Fraud Examiners and the Institute of Internal Control Auditors.
Ingrid Bagby | Cadwalader, Wickersham & Taft LLP
Ingrid Bagby’s practice focuses on bankruptcy, restructuring and related litigation. She regularly represents creditors, debtors, investors, market participants and other parties in chapter 9 and chapter 11 proceedings and complex business reorganizations, and she has extensive experience with cross-border restructurings, including acting for foreign representatives and other parties in chapter 15 cases.
Ms. Bagby advises on bankruptcy issues and claims-resolution involving complex derivatives and structured products, including the safe-harbor provisions for financial contracts. She has been named among Lawdragon’s 500 Leading U.S. Bankruptcy & Restructuring Lawyers, and she has been recognized as a key individual in corporate restructuring by The Legal 500 U.S., recognized in Euromoney’s Guide to the World’s Leading Women in Business Law and recognized as an “Outstanding Young Restructuring Lawyer” by Turnarounds & Workouts.
David J. Kerstein | Validity Finance, LLC
David J. Kerstein is a co-founder and managing director of Validity Finance, a commercial litigation finance company. He helps to lead Validity’s origination, underwriting and structurings of investment opportunities, as well as its strategic growth into new and expanded markets and avenues for investment.
Mr. Kerstein was an early adopter of litigation finance and has nine years of experience in the industry. He has been named among Lawdragon’s “Global 100 Leaders in Legal Finance” and selected by Who’s Who Legal as a “Thought Leader in Third Party Funding.”
Before co-founding Validity, Mr. Kerstein was an investment manager at another litigation-finance company, and prior to that he was a trial lawyer at Gibson Dunn in New York for 15 years, where he handled complex, commercial disputes for plaintiffs and defendants in domestic and international litigations and arbitrations. He earned his J.D. from the University of Pennsylvania Law School and his B.A. from the School of Arts and Sciences at the University of Pennsylvania.