News & Events: Offshore

The arbitrability of shareholder disputes in the Cayman Islands: What will the Privy Council finally decide? –...

It is now over 6 months since the Judicial Committee of the Privy Council heard the important appeal from the Cayman Islands Court of Appeal (CICA) in the case of Ting Chuan (Cayman Islands) Holding Corporation v FamilyMart China Holding Co Ltd, JCPC, 2020/0055. The Privy Council’s judgment was reserved at the conclusion of the […]

19th June 2023

Alex Potts KC appointed to the panel of Senior Decision Makers of the Guernsey Financial Services Commission

Alex Potts KC has been appointed to the panel of Senior Decision Makers of the Guernsey Financial Services Commission. Senior Decision Makers, sitting alone, hear GFSC enforcement cases involving contested allegations of regulatory shortcomings against a licensee and individual directors. Senior Decision Makers are also required to determine the penalties that are to be imposed. […]

14th June 2023

Alex Potts KC, James Purchas and Jonathan Schaffer-Goddard speak at the Commercial Bar Association’s North America and...

Last week week Alex Potts KC, James Purchas and Jonathan Schaffer-Goddard were amongst a panel of speakers at the Commercial Bar Association’s North America and Offshore Meeting. On Thursday, James and Jonathan discussed the management and gathering of evidence in cross-border litigation. During Friday’s debate, Alex and others postulated that the trial process is no […]

Judgment handed down in McGrath Tonner (A Law Firm) v McLean, CICA Civil Appeal No 13 of 2022

The Cayman Islands Court of Appeal delivered judgment last week in a case of considerable interest to the offshore legal profession, being McGrath Tonner (A Law Firm) v McLean, CICA Civil Appeal No 13 of 2022. Alex Potts KC appeared for the Respondent, instructed by Conyers. The appeal presented the first occasion on which the […]

9th May 2023