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Area of Law: Commercial Litigation
Hugh Norbury QC has been working on the Bermudian element of the international battle waged by the private equity firm Apollo and its subsidiary Athene against their former partner /employees who have set up a competitive business (Athene v Siddiqui, Cernich & Caldera).
Read MoreArea of Law: Commercial Litigation
In PPRS v Tecar Justin Higgo QC represents the defendant in multiple claims for breach of warranty arising out of the sale of a Romanian paper business.
Read MoreArea of Law: International and Offshore
Rupert Reed KC and Gregor Hogan acted for the Sarjah Elecricity and Water Authority in FAL Oil Company Ltd v Sarjah Electricity and Water Authority. The case involved the challenging of the recognition and enforcement in the DIFC of a Sarjah court judgment on the basis of inter-Emirate immunity. This is the first time the DIFC Court considered the concepts of sovereign immunity within the UAE.
Read MoreArea of Law: Company
Matthew Morrison and Gregor Hogan act for Haz International Limited in connection with misfeasance proceedings alleging the diversion of business opportunities and other wrongs by a former director and shareholder. These have been consolidated with a just and equitable winding up/unfair prejudice petition presented by the defendant director/shareholder. The evidential stage of the trial (including the cross-examination of three Turkish witnesses via a translator) took place remotely over ten days in the Insolvency and Companies Court during January 2021. Closings will be presented in March 2021.
Read MoreArea of Law: Commercial Litigation
In Khalifeh v Blom Bank, Zahler Bryan is acting for the claimant who seeks the return of monies held in a Lebanese bank account and, in a high-profile decision earlier this year, successfully resisted the Lebanese bank’s jurisdiction challenge by establishing that the claimant was a consumer for the purposes of the European rules of jurisdiction ([2020] EWHC 2427(QB)).
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Sophia Hurst represented the Claimants in Toucan Energy Holdings Ltd v Wirsol Energy Ltd in a five-week trial in the Commercial Court before Henshaw J. The US$60m dispute related to the sale, construction, and financing of 19 solar farms in the UK. Judgment is awaited.
Read MoreArea of Law: Private Client Trusts and Probate
Philip Jones QC has been acting in the BVI in numerous applications in the Skobelev case in which a Russian national has sought to recover money and assets stolen from him by a former employee and her husband.
Read MoreArea of Law: International and Offshore
In Brown & Company Plc v Faber Capital (DIFC) Ltd, Rupert Reed QC, and Gregor Hogan continue to act for a financial services firm defending allegations of breach of fiduciary duty arising from a sophisticated phishing attack.
Read MoreArea of Law: Private Client Trusts and Probate
John Machell QC and Dan McCourt Fritz act for one of the respondents to an appeal in St Johns Trust Company (PUT) Ltd v Medlands (PTC) Ltd. The appeal concerned various orders made by the Court exercising its supervisory jurisdiction in relation to trusts. The appeal was heard by the Bermudian Court of Appeal in January 2020.
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