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Our offshore disputes capability and expertise complements our offering in the UK, most notably in banking and finance, commercial disputes, company, restructuring and insolvency, financial services, international arbitration, and civil fraud.

Members are regularly instructed – either by leading local firms or mainstream UK or US firms with clients involved in offshore disputes – in cases in a wide variety of jurisdictions, including:

British Virgin Islands
Cayman Islands
Gibraltar
Guernsey
Isle of Man
Jersey
Trinidad & Tobago
Turks & Caicos

Members are also often called upon to work on matters being conducted in ‘free zones’ such as the Dubai International Financial Centre.

Several members are admitted to practice in one or more of these jurisdictions, either on an annual or ad hoc basis. More information on this can be found within the barristers profile pages.

Our work includes cases relating to:

Ikana Holdings v Putney Capital Management & Others: Acting for the claimant in a substantial commercial dispute concerning the payment of dividends from a Dominican Republic electricity business (Eastern Caribbean Court of Appeal).
AHAB v Saad & Others: Acting for one of the defendant groups in the largest and most complex fraud case ever to be tried in the Cayman Islands, successfully defending on appeal the Chief Justice’s landmark dismissal of the claims (Cayman Islands Court of Appeal).
Turks & Caicos Financial Services Commission v Caicos General Insurance Company Ltd: Acting for the Turks & Caicos Financial Services Commission in relation to a dispute concerning license conditions imposed on insurance companies conducting insurance business in the Turks & Caicos Islands.
Sonera v Cukurova: Acting for the award creditor in long-running arbitral enforcement proceedings in the British Virgin Islands which resulted in numerous judgments at all levels, including [2015] 2 All ER 1061 (Privy Council).
Peterson & Ekstrom v Weavering Fixed Income Fund Ltd: Acting for the defendant directors in a breach of duty claim arising from a substantial fund collapse, culminating in their successful appeal (Cayman Islands Court of Appeal).
Leremeieva v Estera, Lagur & Ivakhiv: Acting for two Ukrainian oligarchs in a dispute in the British Virgin Islands concerning the operation of a trust and the ownership of various Ukrainian businesses, with allegations involving forgery, sham and dishonest assistance in breach of trust and fiduciary duty.
Cowan v Equis Special LP & Others: Acting for the defendants to a fraud claim in the Cayman Islands, involving parallel proceedings in Hong Kong and turning on the allegedly dishonest diversion of profits realised upon the sale of a private equity fund’s renewable energy investments.
CLICO Enquiry: Acting for the Central Bank of Trinidad and Tobago in the public enquiry in Trinidad into the collapse of Colonial Life Insurance Company and other entities in the CL Financial Group.

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