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CPD Course:
Offshore
Shareholder Disputes
and the Interplay Between
the Offshore
and Hong Kong Courts

Presented by
Mr. Ian Mann, Partner
& Ms Vicky Lord, Partner,
Harney Westwood & Riegels (Harneys)

Offshore Shareholder Disputes and the Interplay Between the Offshore and Hong Kong Courts
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This course is presented by:  Harneys
Code: EVT000000248 Level: Intermediate
Date: 5 September 2018 (Wednesday) Language: English
Time: 14:30 - 17:45 Accreditation(s): LSHK 3.0 CPD Points
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Presenter's Profile:
Mr. Ian Mann

Mr. Ian Mann a barrister by training, Ian Mann is a leading offshore litigator, senior tactician and thought leader.  He is the long term head of Harneys' Offshore Litigation and Restructuring Department in Hong Kong.

Ian lectures regularly to judicial, professional and academic bodies.  He is the author of both of the leading offshore textbooks on British Virgin Islands Commercial Law and Bermuda Commercial Law (Sweet & Maxwell Thomson Reuters), and is a contributor to The Offshore Litigation Blog, a Harneys blog that shares news and views about litigation, dispute resolution, restructuring and insolvency offshore.  He is a Fellow of INSOL International as well as a qualified Trusts and Estates Practitioner (TEP).  He is regularly asked to provide his expert opinion on offshore law to various Courts of Law.

Ian specialises in restructuring, insolvency, shareholders' disputes and contentious trusts.  He is an experienced advocate and continues to appear in Court regularly.  He has been involved in every major recent restructuring in the region involving offshore entities and is a specialist in cross border and conflict of laws dilemmas.  He was appointed as BVI Counsel to the Estate of Nina Wang and has been involved in some of Asia’s highest value contentious Estate litigation.  He regularly appears on behalf of elite families and is usually retained on a long term basis for strategic global offshore litigation advice.

Ian is ranked as a leading offshore lawyer by Chambers and Legal 500 and is recognised as being amongst the world’s leading asset recovery, restructuring & insolvency and private client lawyers by Who’s Who Legal 2016.  He is also one of ten offshore lawyers recognised for client service in Asia by Asian Legal Business for 2017.

Presenter's Profile:
Ms Vicky Lord

Vicky Lord is a partner in Harneys' Litigation, Restructuring and Insolvency group in Hong Kong.  Her practice focuses on serving the needs of both professional and lay clients in relation to BVI and Cayman Islands law.

Vicky has a wide breadth of experience in cross-border jurisdictional commercial matters, from insolvency to shareholder disputes, both led and acting alone, in the BVI Commercial Court and Court of Appeal and has also appeared in the Privy Council in London.  She has particular expertise in high-value, high-profile commercial offshore disputes with cross-border elements, where she has acted for clients with considerable success.  She counts some of the world’s best known financial institutions, blue-chip companies and ultra-high net worth individuals amongst her client base.

Prior to joining us as a senior associate in 2014, Vicky practised as a litigation barrister in the BVI with another leading offshore firm.  Before working offshore, Vicky was in-house counsel with Kingsley Napley LLP.  She has both led and acted alone in the Commercial Court and Court of Appeal of the Eastern Caribbean Supreme Court and has also appeared in the Privy Council.  Vicky has particular expertise in high value contentious trusts and probate litigation, where she has acted for trustees, beneficiaries and third parties with considerable success.

Vicky is a past winner of the Client Choice Award (2014) for the BVI for offshore services and is a member of the Chancery Bar Association.  She is fluent in both English and Spanish.

Course Outline:
This course will cover the followings:

  • Mainland Chinese and HK shareholder disputes in BVI, Cayman Islands and Bermuda - latest cases
  • Co-operation between the HK and Offshore Courts
  • Injunctions in support of shareholder disputes including contentious EGM, hostile take overs, US style shareholder activism
  • Listed company meetings in HK when the listco is an offshore company

This course is provided by:  Kornerstone Limited
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