Arbitration and Alternative Dispute Resolution
Asset Tracing and Enforcement
Corporate and Commercial Disputes
Distressed Funds
Fraud and White Collar Crime
Insolvency and Corporate Restructuring
Regulatory Advice
Trust Litigation

 

Arbitration and Alternative Dispute Resolution

• Arbitration and ADR issues throughout the financial services industry
• Enforcement of foreign arbitral awards

• Investigations and recovery
• Advice on issues involving urgent interim relief including orders for search, seizure, preservation, freezing, and disclosure
• Representing financial institutions affected by such orders 

• Shareholder disputes including arising from constitutional documents and shareholders' agreements, directors' powers and duties and minority rights    
• Contractual disputes involving share subscriptions and redemptions, derivatives and the realisation of security
• Disputes involving offshore structures and entities of all types including funds, partnerships (general and limited), companies (exempted and segregated portfolio), trusts, investment vehicles, insurers, banks and trust companies
• Professional negligence disputes 

• Our litigation and investment funds lawyers work hand in hand on:
  • Advising funds and their directors on winding down or restructuring funds' affairs
  • Acting for funds and service providers on NAV mis-pricing cases, audit negligence disputes and claims against directors
  • Advising on disputes between funds and investors on subscription terms and the interpretation of side letters
  • Acting for leverage providers and counter-parties to distressed funds
  • Assisting creditors, investors, liquidators and service providers in contentious liquidations and parallel foreign bankruptcy and regulatory proceedings
  • Provision of preventative counselling

• Co-ordinating multi-jurisdictional legal and investigative action to locate and recover the proceeds of fraud

• All types of contentious and non-contentious insolvency-related instructions

• Acting for and against regulators and dealing with foreign regulators
• Regulatory and compliance regimes, including qualification and licensing issues for funds, banks and trust companies on issues such as confidentiality, disclosure, anti-money laundering and suspicious activity reporting

• Breach of trust disputes 
• Construction, rectification and variations of trust deeds
• Beneficiary disputes
• Re-organisation of trusts