Chancery Bar Association’s Bermuda Conference

Matthew Morrison has been invited to speak at the Chancery Bar Association’s Bermuda Conference, taking place on Friday 10 May 2019 at the Hamilton Princess Hotel.

Matthew will be speaking on the Share Valuation Session at 11.00 alongside Donald Lilly (4 Stone Buildings).

The session will address the following topics:

• Valuation in a s.994 Companies Act 2006/s.111 Companies Act 2001 context; and when and to what extent should a minority interest be discounted?
• Compulsory purchase under s.103 of Companies Act 2001; can and should the principles from a s.111 context be imported?

This event is free to all local practitioners but places are limited and must be booked.

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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).