Commercial Fraud Manual

by Eugene S. Becker, Margaret A. Daley, Daniel S. Dooley, Michael Goldman, Richard S. Lauter

Overview

Sooner or later, most insolvency professionals must confront fraud issues, and this Manual provides the framework and vocabulary necessary to understand, confront and defeat these issues. This Manual is a must-have for any insolvency professional - lawyer, accountant, fraud examiner or otherwise. It explains different types of fraud, the mechanics of forensic investigations and computer forensics, the legal response to fraud and international fraud remedies, concluding with a discussion of the major fraud cases in 2009.

Product Details

BN ID:	2940014252843
Publisher:	American Bankruptcy Institute
Publication date:	03/23/2012
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
Pages:	154
File size:	3 MB

About the Author

Eugene S. Becker is the senior principal of Becker Law, a boutique litigation firm in New York City. Mr. Becker’s practice focuses on multijurisdictional litigation and arbitration, particularly international claims enforcement. He regularly acts as special recovery counsel to hedge funds, financial institutions, receivers, trustees, professionals and corporations. As special counsel, Mr. Becker has assisted clients in more than 40 countries. Licensed in South Africa, Australia and New York, he has been involved in multinational litigation and arbitration projects in the United States, Canada, Europe and Australia throughout much of his legal career.  He develops recovery models and assists in their execution in a multijurisdictional context.  Mr. Becker has written many papers on multinational litigation and arbitration, with particular emphasis on developing admissible discovery and recovery opportunities for claimants within a fraud context. He has delivered papers on his preferred area of practice at seminars in New York, Chicago, Canada, Europe, South Africa and Australia. Speaking engagements include recent presentations to the New York County Lawyers Association, Sterling National Bank, New York, the Association of Certified Fraud Examiners (Johannesburg, Toronto and Chicago), the Annual ABA Conference (Chicago 2009) and the Brussels-based Association for International Arbitration. Mr. Becker’s writings include articles published in the New York Law Journal, the Latin American Law and Business Report and the American Bankruptcy Institute’s Guide to Cross-Border Insolvency in the United States. He is a member of the Association for International Arbitration, the Association of European Attorneys and the American Bar Association, a past member of the Association of the Bar of the City of New York’s Africa Committee. Mr. Becker received both his B.A. and Bachelor of Laws from the University of Cape Town in South Africa and his Master of Comparative Law from the University of Queensland, Brisbane, Australia.