• Political, government and international affairs (domestic policy & international relations)
• Diplomacy (relationship building, dialogue, foreign relations)
• Law and justice (rule of law, constitutional law, human rights, international criminal law, international law, and transitional justice)
• Conflict and dispute resolution (consultation, outreach, mediation, reconciliation, peace talks and dialogue platforms)
• Crisis management
• Counterterrorism
• Investigations
• Best practice and good governance (anti-corruption and asset recovery)
• Development and state building
• Strategic communications
• Campaigning and events (political, humanitarian and victim-based)
• Journalism.

• International and political diplomacy
• Law and justice
• National security and human rights
• Peace-making, conflict resolution and crisis management
• Rule of law and good governance
• Civil society
• Development and economic stability.

McCue Jury & Partners LLP is a specialist international law firm that is internationally acknowledged as a leading practice in human rights, litigation, criminal defence and prosecution, transitional justice, and reputation management. The media has dubbed the firm as “The Enforcers” and as “Someone to Watch Over Us”. The firm is one of the UK’s most highly recommended (Legal 500 and Chambers Directories) law firms, including lawyers that are acknowledged as leaders in their fields. This enables EBRO to be in the unique position of providing clients with on demand legal advice or direct formal representation through the law firm. See www.mccue-law.com.

RIGEL Corporation Ltd is a multi-disciplinary consultancy that has a strong track record of delivering solutions to clients in the public sector (states, governments, political leaders), the non-government sector (NGOs and domestic, regional and international institutions) and private sector (companies, businesses, and investors). RIGEL operates discreetly at the highest levels, making use of direct access to leaders, advisors, key influencers, decision makers and validators. Rigel has strong relationships with governments, security and intelligence, the international community, the media and the private sector in areas of value to any client.

RIGEL’s principals and senior team members have backgrounds in:

• International, political and private diplomacy & international affairs
• Foreign and domestic policy
• Overseas business and Inward Investment
• Law (international and domestic)
• Intelligence and security
• Conflict and dispute resolution
• State building and development (including peace-making/truth and reconciliation)
• Media, communications and PR
• Campaigning and lobbying
• Project management (research, design & implementation).

RIGEL provides the following services:

• Commercial diplomacy
• Private diplomacy
• Legal solutions
• Project solutions
• Reputation management
• Intelligence and research
• Crisis management.

Please see www.rigelcorporation.com

Fields PLLC, a USA law firm with offices in Atlanta and Washington, has established relationships with world-class litigation teams, leading consulting firms and specialists. It can field a first-rate multi-disciplinary team to recover claims for states, sovereign Indian tribes, corporations and individuals. Our consultants have unique
practices in identifying litigation opportunities in antitrust, insurance and other related fields; developing settlement models; and managing large data analytics projects.

Blue Star Strategies (BSS) LLC is a dynamic, interdisciplinary strategic consulting, public affairs, and government relations firm based in Washington, DC with offices in Europe and Latin America. Blue Star Strategies SAS expands the firm's work in Europe, serving clients in Paris, France and Brussels, Belgium.

Their principals, who previously served at the highest levels of the U.S. government in the White House, Department of Commerce, Department of State, Congress, as well as in the private sector and labour institutions, provide full and personalized attention to clients for the duration of a project. They lead a team with decades of experience working with, government, business, labour, multilateral and public policy institutions, think tanks, non-profit advocacy organizations, and the media and are focused on achieving concrete results and success for clients.

Mohammed Yonis is a former Assistant Secretary General of the United Nations. He was Minister for Foreign Affairs for Somaliland from 2013 to 2015 and is a seasoned diplomat with over 40 years’ experience in international development and conflict management. He is a former Director and Adviser to the President of the African Development Bank and, from 2009 to 2013, he worked as Deputy Joint Special Representative of UNAMID in Darfur, coordinating efforts between the UN, the African Union and the Government of Sudan. Amongst other roles, it was his responsibility to conduct hostage negotiations. Mr. Yonis was the Foreign Minister of Somaliland for over two years until October 2015. While in that capacity, he co-hosted the first Investment Conference for Somaliland with the UK Government in London; led a high-level delegation to the first Somaliland Conference at the European Union Parliament in Brussels in January 2015; and participated as an observer at the African Development Bank’s Annual Meetings in May 2015.

Mr. Yonis holds an MPA from Harvard University where he was a Mason Fellow, and a BA in Political Science and Business Management from Miami University in Oxford, Ohio. He also holds diplomas in conflict resolution and in education obtained in Canada, Somalia and Germany. He is an expert on public policy, particularly, in relation to governance, management and peace building in Africa. He speaks fluent English and Arabic.

Cofer Black is a former CIA official who was appointed Ambassador-at-large and Coordinator for Counterterrorism by President George W. Bush and led the Office of Counterterrorism in the U.S. State Department. Previously he served in the Directorate of Operations at the Central Intelligence Agency(CIA) and Director of the CIA's Counterterrorist Center (CTC). Cofer is an internationally recognized authority on counterterrorism, cyber security, national security, and foreign affairs.

In the recent years, Cofer has provided strategic guidance, business development, and high-level consulting to leading global companies, corporate support to US Government and international customers and is currently on the board of several companies including the Baltic International Bank.

Sir Ronald Flanagan GBE, QPM was Chief Constable of the Police Service of Northern Ireland, and its predecessor the Royal Ulster Constabulary. He was subsequently appointed as the Home Office Chief Inspector of Constabulary for England, Wales, and Northern Ireland. Since leaving the UK police force, he became the strategic advisor to the Abu Dhabi police force and chairman of the international cricket council’s anti-corruption and security unit.

Justin Marozzi is a political and strategic communications advisor, journalist, author, and broadcaster with extensive experience in international project management and a proven track record of working with senior political leadership at Head of State level and across international governments, UN agencies, European Union, African Union, and NATO. Highly experienced in conflict and post-conflict environments, with many years working in the Middle East and Arab word, he is also a professional communicator with the highest academic qualifications and a proven ability to achieve outstanding results in the most testing situations.

He is a member of the UK government Stabilisation Unit’s Deployable Civilian Experts in Strategic Communications, with UK government / NATO security clearance. He is also a Visiting Senior Research Fellow in the Policy Institute at King’s College London and a Senior Research Fellow at Buckingham University’s Humanities Research Institute. He was a Trustee of the Royal Geographical Society 2011-2014.

He has extensive experience as a political and strategic communications advisor to: The Office of the Prime Minister of Libya; NATO (Norway) and Allied Rapid Reaction Corps; Strategic Communications Evaluation, UN, Geneva; Senior Communications Advisor to the President and Prime Minister of Somalia; Senior Communications Advisor to Director of UK Government’s Stabilisation Unit; Director of Government Relations, Aegis, Iraq; Senior Advisor, Albany Associates.

He is a writer, historian and journalist and regularly contributes to national and international publications and broadcasters, including BBC, FT, Newsweek, Spectator, Times, Sunday Telegraph, Guardian, Evening Standard. He was a former contributing editor to The Spectator.

Richard W. Fields, the founding partner of Fields PLLC, is an innovative lawyer whose creative approach to the practice of law has earned him the reputation as a pioneer in settling complex large-scale litigation and the creation of the modern litigation finance market. His strong ability to solve problems by bringing in different perspectives has been key to his long track record of success.

Over the course of his legal career, Mr. Fields has recovered billions of dollars for numerous Fortune 500 clients and in 2006, he was named a “Leading Lawyer” by Lawdragon magazine. Mr. Fields has litigation experience in disputes involving insurance coverage, products liability, professional negligence, securities fraud, pollution, asbestos, and mass torts. He has represented hundreds of Fortune 500 companies in the oil, gas, electric, chemical, banking, and manufacturing industries. He has resolved some of the largest claims presented to London market insurers, leading to recognition as an authority on the resolution of insurance and reinsurance disputes, and he has represented victims of terrorism in numerous cases.

As a premier litigator working as a fund manager from 2008-2015, Richard managed $600 million in private and public litigation funds. As the founder and CEO of Juridica Asset Management Limited (“JAML”), Mr. Fields launched the first publicly-traded fund for complex lawsuits involving business-to-business disputes on the London Stock Exchange.

In addition to his experience as a litigator and fund manager, Mr. Fields has raised over $1.0 billion in capital for various start-ups and early-stage companies, is an active member of the District of Columbia Bar Association, the Association of the Bar of the City of New York, the American Bar Association and the International Bar Association. He also serves on the Advisory Board of the McKinney School of Law at Indiana University, the Audit Committee of Human Rights Watch and previously served as co-chair of the New York Committee of Human Rights Watch and on the Advisory Board of Rand Corporation’s Institute for Civil Justice.

Jason Wright is a former US Army judge advocate (JAG). He is currently in private practice in New York City and Washington DC, serves as Adjunct Professor of Law at Georgetown University and Professor of Practice at Washington and Lee University School of Law. During his ten-year active-duty military career, Wright was a military public defender in Europe and Guantánamo Bay, an aide-de-camp to a division commander in Iraq, and a military legal planner in Europe and Iraq where he advised on international law, national security, humanitarian law and military intelligence. He was military defence counsel for Khalid Sheikh Mohammed, the alleged mastermind of the 9/11 attacks, in trial proceedings held in Guantánamo Bay (the largest ever criminal case in US legal history). Since establishing his own private practice in 2015, Wright has been handling a range of cases including government investigations, cases concerning national security law and sanctions, civil and appellate litigation, and public international law matters for private clients, multinational corporations, defence and intelligence contractors, as well as certain states. Wright, awarded the Bronze Star Medal for combat service in Iraq and the U.S. Secretary of Defence’s Meritorious Service Medal for his representation of Guantánamo Bay detainees, continues to serve as a Major in the US Army Reserves where he holds a top- secret security clearance.

Faisal Osman is a leader in international asset recovery on behalf of governments and commercial organisations, and the worldwide enforcement of judgments and awards. He acts as co-ordinating counsel and chief strategist in multi-disciplinary recovery teams and advises clients on all aspect of a recovery process, including merits and financing. Faisal is called to the Bar of England and Wales and registered before the Dubai Financial International Centre Courts in the UAE and practices world-wide.

Mary Johnson is an international human rights lawyer and consultant with a practice focusing on human rights and business in areas of conflict. She has extensive advocacy experience on diverse human rights issues including the prohibition against torture in the context of counter- terrorism, migrants’ rights, the death penalty, labour rights, racial discrimination, and reproductive rights. Mary has contributed to a variety of cases in both state and federal court in the United States, including the US Supreme Court decision in Kiobel v. Royal Dutch Shell, as well as contributing to cases in various lower courts in Colombia. She has drafted and delivered oral and written interventions at the UN Human Rights Council and the UN Committee on the Elimination of Racial Discrimination on human rights situations in the US, Spain, Philippines, United Arab Emirates, Dominican Republic, and Mexico, to name a few. Mary also has experience as a teacher and trainer in international human rights law, US constitutional law and criminal procedure, and took a brief hiatus from legal practice to launch a social enterprise in northern Thailand. She received her J.D. in Public Interest Law from the University of San Francisco School of Law and an LL.M. with distinction in international law from SOAS University of London. Mary is admitted to practice as an Attorney-at-Law by the State Bar of California.

Strategic communications consultants

Rupert Wright is a strategic communications counsellor who has advised numerous governments and in particular those in the gulf states and the Caribbean. Before Ashbright, he was Middle East Chairman of Edelman, the world’s largest public relations company. He has worked with Shell, ADCB, General Electric and Mubadala, a sovereign wealth fund, among others. He has run media training courses for government and corporate clients including Shell, BlackBerry and Etihad Airways.

He began his career in London at Euromoney in the 1990s, reporting from emerging markets such as Brazil, Russia, Poland and Indonesia. In 1996 he joined The European under the editorship of Andrew Neill, where he was business and finance editor. In 2000 he consulted for the World Bank, developing its Water Media Network, as well as LTP Trade and Deutsche Bank in London. He has written books on water and the Languedoc. He has also written for most of the world’s major newspapers including the Financial Times, Washington Post, The Times and Wall Street Journal. He was instrumental in the start-up of the National newspaper in Abu Dhabi in 2008, where he was business comment editor.

Toby Burnham is an expert in global communications with a demonstrated depth of experience working successfully in public relations across multiple sectors and different continents. He is skilled in crisis management and building campaign narratives through strategic communications, corporate social responsibility aspects, event management and worldwide media relations.

Toby’s twenty years’ experience at running global news events along with an in-depth working knowledge of the technologies and architecture of modern news coverage, allows him to design, build, and run campaigns or crisis management very effectively. While adept on any continent, Toby has focussed much of his work across Africa, working in Sudan, Republic of South Africa, Kenya, Rwanda, Democratic Republic of Congo, Morocco and Libya; and the UAE and Qatar.

Added to that is a record of significant high-level consultancy work in a range of global sectors, such as health and development (World Health Organisation, RED, Malaria No More, The Global Fund, Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation), energy (National Oil Corporation of Libya), sport and entertainment; creating a rare mix of connectivity and knowledge of many types of content and story-building across the world.