Many of our engagements involve matters in which our clients face significant public attention. The following is a list of news stories about the firm, our clients, cases and the results we have achieved.
Kobre & Kim’s Andrew Stafford KC will be speaking at the International Federation for Investment Law and Arbitration (IFILA) Annual Conference, taking place on July 1, 2026, in London.
Kobre & Kim’s Nicholas Surmacz will speak at the 22nd Annual IBA Anti-Corruption Conference: The Role of the Global Financial System in the Fight Against Corruption on 18 June 2026, joining Panel Six: Asset recovery and restitution: The challenges of returning illicit gains to victims and states.
Kobre & Kim’s Andrew Stafford KC will speak at the upcoming Asset Recovery CEE conference in Warsaw on 11 June 2026, a leading forum bringing together legal practitioners, investigators and asset recovery professionals from across Central and Eastern Europe and beyond.
Kobre & Kim is acting as counsel to the Hong Kong liquidators of Cayman-incorporated DaFa Property Group, who have obtained letters of request from the Hong Kong High Court seeking recognition of their appointments in mainland China—an approach reported by Global Restructuring Review to be a first for a non-Hong Kong incorporated company. Henry Cheung, Michelle Li and John Han led the firm’s work on the matter.
Kobre & Kim’s Ana Frischtak will speak at Latin Lawyer & GIR Live: Anti-Corruption & Investigations Mexico 2026, taking place on 4 June 2026 in Mexico City.
Ed Llewelyn-Evans, a partner in Kobre & Kim’s London office, discusses complex cross-border litigation, building a practice through the firm’s collaborative global model, and mentoring the next generation of litigators at a disputes-only firm.
Kobre & Kim’s Daniel Saval will speak at the International Bar Association’s 31st Annual Global Insolvency and Restructuring Conference, taking place May 31–June 2, 2026, in Berlin.
Legal 500 has placed Kobre & Kim in Band 1 of its Global Asset Tracing & Recovery – Law Firms rankings, recognizing the firm’s leading work on complex, cross‑border asset tracing and recovery matters.
Kobre & Kim’s Zachary Rosenbaum will be speaking at the VALCON 2026 conference on the “Valuations in LMEs" panel in New Orleans on Tuesday, May 5, at 11:30 am ET.
On April 28, Kobre & Kim’s Sergio Aguiar spoke at the Special Situations Exchange Brazil conference in São Paulo, on cross-border deals and how investors are adapting to an increasingly complex distressed and special situations landscape.