EVENT

Avoiding pitfalls a guide to director duties

5 July 2017

VENUE: HARRY BOUND ROOM LES COTILS

The Talk will cover the following three areas:
• General Director duties- including fiduciary, common law and statutory;
• Dealing with the Regulator- defending proceedings and understanding the enforcement powers;
• Insolvency- what issues to have in mind when the company is close to insolvency and what to expect when a liquidator is appointed

Session 1
08.00am – 08.30amBreakfast and networking

08.30am – 09.30amWorkshop

09.30am – 10.00amNetworking

THIS EVENT IS BY INVITE ONLY. MEMBERS CAN BOOK VIA THE EMAIL INVITATION.
Book by 28 June 2017 to secure your place.

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SPEAKERS

ALEX HORSBRUGH-PORTER
COUNSEL, OGIER

Alex has had experience of schemes of arrangements, administration and liquidation applications as well as shareholder disputes and advising boards of directors on their common law, fiduciary and statutory duties and obligations and methods by which liabilities can be avoided or minimized. Alex is also a UK qualified licensed insolvency practitioner and has had experience of winding up companies in the Channel Islands and the Caribbean.

Alex qualified and spent seven years at DAC Beachcroft (then Davies Arnold Cooper) and Ince & Co in London before moving to the Cayman Islands in 2004. He spent seven years there at a local firm latterly as a partner specialising in insolvency and fund disputes. Alex then moved to Guernsey and worked at a local off-shore firm where he qualified as an advocate and was primarily involved in insolvency matters as well as trust and regulatory disputes. He then spent a year as a director of a local corporate insolvency firm where he used his insolvency qualifications to take appointments as a liquidator and advise directors on their liabilities.

Alex joined Ogier in January 2017. He is a director of ARIES the local chapter of INSOL as well as a member of R3, INSOL International and the Insolvency Practitioners Association.

Admitted:
2014 – Guernsey
2004 – Cayman
1998 – UK

EMMA HILL
SENIOR ASSOCIATE, OGIER

Emma has experience in commercial litigation and contentious trusts matters.

Emma graduated from Queen’s University Belfast with an honours degree in History and Philosophy in 2004. She completed the Graduate Diploma in Law at Nottingham Law School in 2006 followed by the Legal Practice Course in 2007. She was subsequently admitted as a solicitor in England and Wales in 2011.

Emma trained with Fladgate LLP in London and then, upon qualification, worked for DWF LLP in Manchester.

Admitted in: 2011, England and Wales

SAM DINGLE
SENIOR ASSOCIATE, OGIER

Sam has broad commercial litigation experience, but particularly in relation to high-value trust proceedings, insolvency and regulatory matters. He has appeared before the Royal Court on a variety of complex and high-value disputes.

He joined Ogier in April 2013, having previously worked at another offshore law firm and having spent periods on secondment at Berwin Leighton Paisner LLP in London and a leading law firm in Luxembourg. He was admitted as a Solicitor in England and Wales in September 2008 and was called to the Guernsey Bar in July 2011.

Admitted in:
2011 – Guernsey
2008 – England and Wales

Engage. Support. Promote.The Finance Sector Non-Executive Director Forum LBG

EVENT

Avoiding pitfalls a guide to director duties

5 July 2017

SPEAKERS

Engage. Support. Promote.
The Finance Sector Non-Executive Director Forum LBG