Finance Monthly Global Awards 2018 Edition

HUMAN RIGHTS LAW LAWYER OF THE YEAR About Anthony Shipman Anthony Shipman is an entrepreneurial, international investigative attorney registered in both London as a barrister and New York, as a foreign legal consultant, and heads his own litigation practice. Combining rigour and tenacity, he specializes in complex multi-jurisdictional civil and human rights litigation, particularly in obtaining injunctive relief or restraining orders against sovereign assets pending the domestication of foreign or U.S. federal court judgments in Italy, Luxembourg, France and Switzerland and/or in offshore tax havens. He has undertaken cases and/or negotiations against a series of governments designated as sponsor of terrorism in many jurisdictions, together with attorneys in European and Middle Eastern civil jurisdictions as well as in the United States. He currently represents three U.S. families - Flatow, Eisenfeld and Duker - in a complex human rights European enforcement action against Iran in which he has blocked €1.5bn pending domestication in the relevant jurisdictions. He has represented several U.S. and European financial institutions in complex litigation including the Bank of New York v Central Bank of Iraq, in Italy, which was successfully settled. He has also represented corporations in ultimately successful recovery actions-negotiations against several emerging markets governments. Shipman, a fluent speaker of English, Italian, German and French, has been involved in several projects in difficult jurisdictions including Russia, Lebanon, Egypt, UAE, Colombia, Panama, Bermuda, Eastern Europe including Rumania, Thailand, Indonesia, South Korea, Taiwan, Shanghai and Hong Kong. He is a founding partner in EMA International, an asset tracing and due diligence firm with offices in London, Milan and associate offices in Washington D.C., Rome and Lisbon. Contact: Anthony Shipman T: +44-787-656-7902 E: anthony.shipman@icloud.com W: www.emainternational.com ANTHONY SHIPMAN International Litigator & Founding Partner of EMA International Firm Profile EMA is a project-based research group that specializes in gathering in- telligence internationally in com¬plex corporate, legal and financial matters. Our uncompromising aim is to place our clients in the dominant posi- tion of any negotiation or contested situa¬tion, by legal means. Our multilingual personnel is quali¬fied in law, accounting, finan- cial ser-vices, intelligence, investiga- tion and business management. Formed in 1992, we have our own of¬fices in London and Milan and as- sociate offices in Washington D.C., Rome and Lisbon. Finance Monthly Global Awards 2018 www.finance-monthly.com 47 UNITED KINGDOM