#SerleShare – John Machell QC has written a Case Note on St John’s Trust Company (PVT) Limited (SJTC) v Medlands (PTC) Limited & Ors [2021] CA (Bda) 20 Civ

John Machell QC has written a Case Note on St John’s Trust Company (PVT) Limited (SJTC) v Medlands (PTC) Limited & Ors [2021] CA (Bda) 20 Civ.

John Machell QC and Dan McCourt Fritz (assisted by John Eldridge and Andrew Gurr) instructed by Kennedys, acted for the protector who took the lead in successfully resisting the appeal of SJTC against various first instance orders made by Subair-Williams J including its removal as de facto or de jure trustee.

The judgment can be viewed here.

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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.