Serle Court & Maples Group: Cross-Border Private Client & Trusts Series – Webinar 1

Serle Court & Maples Group are pleased to launch a new series of 'Cross-Border Private Client & Trusts' webcasts. The first panel focusses on Trustee decision-making in light of Grand View v Wong and covers the following topics:

Substratum and proper purpose trusts
A modern approach to dispositive decision-making
The impact of Braganza on fiduciary decision-making
Practical tips for trustees
Recent Public Trustee v Cooper blessing decisions

This session is chaired by John Machell QC (Serle Court) alongside speakers Jennifer Haywood (Serle Court), Ray Davern (Partner at Maples Group, London), and Alex Way (Of Counsel at Maples Group, London).

The panels are a virtual series of debate-style sessions addressing topics that are both current and controversial in the trusts industry in 2021. The series of webcasts will be of interest to lawyers, attorneys and solicitors (both onshore and offshore), trust management specialists and trustees.

Webinar 1, Trustee decision-making in light of Grand View v Wong is now available to watch on-demand.

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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.