ThoughtLeaders4 FIRE Americas: Cayman 2023

Serle Court is knowledge partner at the upcoming ThoughtLeaders4 FIRE Americas: Cayman Conference taking place at The Westin, Grand Cayman from Sunday 12 – Tuesday 14 March 2023.

John Machell KC and Matthew Morrison will be speaking at this conference alongside an expert group of speakers and a distinguished panel of Judges.

John and Matthew will both be speaking on Tuesday 14th March.

At 11:20, John will be speaking alongside Ian Herbert (Miller & Chevalier) on the ‘Trust Busting: How does it work in different jurisdictions’ panel.

Matthew will be speaking on the ‘Bankruptcy & Insolvency Powers’ panel at 13:00 with Alan Lipkin (Chaffetz Lindsey), Tatiana Flores (LDCM Advogados), Rebecca Hume (Gateley), Miguel E. Urriola (Fabrega Molino) and Mark Wilson (Gateley Legal).

Focusing on North and South America and the Caribbean, this event discusses the latest developments in jurisdictions such as the The Dominican Republic, US, Brazil, Panama, Columbia, Canada, Guatemala, Cayman, Argentina and more.

Senior Clerk Nicholas Hockney will be attending.

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John Machell KC has a broad commercial chancery practice, with particular experience in large-scale litigation involving trusts, fiduciary/director duties, and fraud, particularly with an international dimension.

John is regarded as one of the leading partnership and LLP silks and has experience of a wide range of both contentious and non-contentious matters across the whole range of business sectors. A large part of his work involves issues arising from the use of partnerships and LLPs in hedge fund and private equity structures; in international commercial group structures; and as part of wealth planning strategies.

A substantial part of John’s practice is offshore, and he has appeared in the courts of Grand Cayman, the British Virgin Islands, and Bermuda on several occasions in recent years.

John Machell KC

Call: 1993
Silk: 2012

Matthew Morrison KC has a broad commercial chancery practice, with particular expertise in civil fraud, company and partnership disputes, and insolvency litigation.

Described by Chambers UK 2027 as an “outstanding barrister” who is “technically brilliant, fantastic with clients and someone whose cross-examination is exceptional”, Matthew regularly appears in the High Court and Court of Appeal and has acted in proceedings before the Grand Court and Court of Appeal of the Cayman Islands, the Eastern Caribbean Supreme Court (BVI), the Supreme Court of Gibraltar, the Isle of Man High Court of Justice and the Dubai International Financial Centre Courts. He also has significant experience assisting advocates before the Royal Courts of Jersey and Guernsey. He is generally admitted to the BVI Bar and is currently admitted ad hoc on a number of matters in the Cayman Islands.

Matthew is an established legal author. He has written widely read PLC practice notes on minority shareholder remedies and edits chapters on directors’ duties and disqualification, and insolvency, in Gore-Browne, Butterworths Corporate Law Service, Tolley’s Company Law Service and Tolley’s Company Law Handbook; and on unfair prejudice, misfeasance and disqualification in the Law of Limited Liability Partnerships (Whittaker and Machell (6th ed.), 2026).