OFFSHORE DISPUTES WEEK

24–26 MARCH 2025 | Hotel Indigo Grand Cayman

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100+ INTERNATIONAL EXPERTS

from the US, UK, Europe, LATAM, and Asia

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OFFSHORE WELCOMES ONSHORE

Explore the latest in offshore disputes across key jurisdictions with leading onshore and offshore practitioners

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KEY OFFSHORE JURISDICTIONS

Cayman Islands, BVI, Bermuda, Bahamas, Channel Islands & IOM

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Agenda

 

Welcome Drinks Reception

14:00

Welcome Remarks and Roundtable Explanation
Start of your week with ice-breaker roundtables and begin the discussions! 

14:10

Roundtable Discussions
Choose one of the following discussions to participate in
FIRE Contentious Insolvency

Tips On Finding Evidence

Working With Shareholders and Board of Directors
Corporate Disputes Trust Litigation

Navigating Challenges in Client Communication

Bridging Generational Gaps Between Trustees and Beneficiaries

15:00

Roundtable Discussions
Choose one of the following discussions to participate in
FIRE Contentious Insolvency

Women In FIRE

Personal Brand and Career Progression
Corporate Disputes Trust Litigation

How To Build Your International Practice

Understanding Different Cultural Attitudes in Trust Structures

15:50

Networking Break

16:20

Roundtable Discussions
Choose one of the following discussions to participate in
FIRE Contentious Insolvency

Cross Border Cultural Challenges in Asset Recovery

Technology in Your Practice – What Software Do You Use
Corporate Disputes Trust Litigation

The Use of Experts in Disputes 

Setting up STAR Trusts

17:10

Roundtable Discussions
Choose one of the following discussions to participate in
FIRE Contentious Insolvency

Defining The Term ‘Asset’

Meet Your Insolvency Practitioners
Corporate Disputes Trust Litigation

What Next for Crypto

Doing Due Diligence on Assets Placed in Trust

17:55

End of Roundtable Day

18:00

Welcome Drinks

09:00

Welcome Remarks from The Advisory Board

Start the day with welcome remarks from the advisory board, consisting of both onshore and offshore practitioners, from a variety of disputes practices.

09:10

Keynote Session
Views from the regulators

09.30

What’s The Latest in Offshore?
  • An update on regulation and legislation
  • Jurisdictional comparison – who is leading the way
  • Uniting the different practice areas of offshore disputes

10:15

Networking Break

10:45

A Global World – Cross Border Interactions
  • Triggers and incentives to move jurisdictions
  • The flow across Asia
  • How the Middle East is structuring their wealth and assets
  • How US interest rates volatility impacts litigation

11:30

Navigating Sanctions in The Offshore World
  • Understanding how sanctions will impact your disputes
  • Navigating the interactions between regulatory authorities in different jurisdictions
  • Safeguarding assets being held by a sovereign entity

12:15

Networking Lunch

13:15

Build your own agenda!
Choose one of the following sessions:
FIRE Contentious Insolvency

Ways To Creatively Enforce Judgements

  • Where do you turn an arbitration award into a judgement
  • Coordination with parallel proceedings
  • Which jurisdiction takes the lead for a favourable ruling
  • Using RICO from the US

Navigating Offshore Insolvency and Restructuring Nuances

  • Analysing the new restructuring legislation in Cayman
  • Gaining control and restructuring Chinese subsidiaries
  • The use of offshore vehicles
Corporate Disputes Trust Litigation

Understanding When and How Best to Use Arbitration in Offshore Disputes

  • The rise of arbitration clauses in contracts
  • How arbitration awards are domesticated in offshore jurisdictions

Distress With Trustees

  • How wealthy people are being exploited
  • The psychology of fraudsters targeting vulnerable people

 
 

14:00

Build your own agenda!
Choose one of the following sessions:
FIRE Contentious Insolvency

Cybercrime – The Biggest Financial Issue Worldwide

  • KYC – the need to meet people in the
    real world 
  • A need to standardize the disclosures for the use of AI
  • Exploring crime using crypto

Facing Complex Insolvency Disputes

  • Analysing the rise with cross border insolvency with the Middle East
  • Ensuring foreign insolvency recognition proceedings offshore
  • Common procedural hurdles with insolvency litigation
Corporate Disputes Trust Litigation

Appropriate Use of Alternative Dispute Resolution Methods

  • Using Mediation to its full potential
  • Mediation proceedings in different offshore jurisdictions
  • When and when not to pursue Adjudication

Exploring Capacity Issues in Trusts

  • Issues with removing protectors and protector consent
  • Defending against capacity claims in court
  • How to qualify capacity pre-emptively 
  • Tax liabilities and revoking decision
 

14:45

Networking Break

15:15

Build your own agenda!
Choose one of the following sessions:
FIRE Contentious Insolvency

Tracing Assets Around the World

  • Working with multi-jurisdictional litigation
  • What is the reach of regulators to go offshore
  • How asset tracers coordinate across borders

Maximizing Potential – The Need for Restructuring and Reorganizing

  • Assessing the objectives and finding the right restructuring plan 
  • Restructuring tools available in offshore regimes
  • Creating value across multiple jurisdictions
Corporate Disputes Trust Litigation

Shareholder Disputes in Offshore Jurisdictions

  • Emerging trends in China and Hong Kong
  • Minority Shareholder Agreements and Transparency Standards
  • Jurisdictional questions in Appellate decisions

The Importance of Proper Disclosure in Trust Litigation

  • Working with clients to properly assess and present assets 
  • Clear communication with clients 
  • Managing complex personal structures
 

16:00

Build your own agenda!
Choose one of the following sessions:
FIRE Contentious Insolvency

Delving Into the Recovery of Assets in Offshore Jurisdictions

  • Challenges with recovering assets across jurisdictions
  • Avoiding legal pitfalls with recovering 
  • Tips on successfully enforcing judgements when securing assets

Dissenting Shareholder Work

  • Working with segregated portfolio companies
  • The use of Cayman Court to value shares
  • Section 238 of the Cayman Companies Act – allowing companies to merge
Corporate Disputes Trust Litigation

Evaluating Director Liability

  • Offshore jurisdiction regulation for director liability and derivative claims
  • When to restructure versus when to arbitrate

Applications of Session 64a – Correcting Trustee Mistakes

  • Setting aside decisions made by a trustee in exercising a fiduciary power
  • Understanding the outcomes of the Hastings-Bass Ruling
  • Tax implications for challenging protectorship
 

16:45

End of Day 1

17:20

Networking Drinks

09:00 

Day 2 Welcome Back Remarks from The Advisory Board

09:10

Keynote Session
An insight to the developments of offshore legislations

09:30

Working With Offshore Practitioners
•    How to instruct and engage with the offshore world
•    What to expect when working with your offshore counsel
•    Understanding the terminology

10:15

Networking Break

10:45

Exploring Disputes in The Insurance Industry
•    Common pitfalls and what we can learn from it
•    How Bermuda is leading the way with open and transparent regulatory frameworks
•    Complex issues surrounding Bermuda Form matters

11:30

The Preservation of Data
•    What to do when there are no records to work with
•    How to merge data sets in investigations and reviews
•    Data privacy – are you being globally data compliant

12:15

Networking Lunch

13:15

Are You Relying on Technology?

•   Best practices with implementing the use of technology
•   Keeping up with the constant progression of software development
•   Efficiently using AI in your practice

14:00

Build your own agenda!
Choose one of the following sessions
FIRE Contentious Insolvency

Broadening The Word ‘Asset’

  • Remembering intellectual property are key assets
  • The recovery of intangible assets
  • Putting together a specialised asset recovery team
  • Capturing ongoing development, knowledge, and expertise as an asset

Proactively Protect Your Assets Going Forward

  • Exploring asset protection strategies
  • Restructuring your business to ensure asset protection
    Planning on a timeline of when to restructure
  • Risks involved and making the right decision
Corporate Disputes Trust Litigation

Post M&A Disputes in Offshore Jurisdictions

  • Valuation of shares pre and post-closing
  • Breach of representation and indemnification claims
  • Exercising shareholder rights in different offshore jurisdictions

Changes To the Perpetuity Rule

  • The Disapplication of the 150 year perpetuity rule in Cayman
  • Effect on existing trusts
  • Applying to the Grand Court for continued perpetuity on existing trusts
  • Flexibility in creating dynamic trusts

15:00

Networking Break

15:30

Build your own agenda!
Choose one of the following sessions
FIRE Contentious Insolvency

Digital Asset and Tracing – Onshore Vs Offshore

  • Working with digital assets and the cross-border challenges it comes with
  • How asset tracing differs from onshore and offshore
  • Exploring the crypto regulations in offshore jurisdictions

What’s Going on in Real Estate Insolvency Proceedings

  • What to be aware of when working with operating companies in the PRC, and restructuring real estate debts
  • Chinese property developers and the recognition of insolvency proceedings
  • Preventing disputes and ensuring you’re in the right position to restructure
Corporate Disputes Trust Litigation

Disputing Control Over Private Trust Companies

  • How trustees can be put in charge of companies for greater flexibility and reduced liability
  • Intersection between director liability and breach of trust suits
  • ESG Implications for Trustee and Beneficiary

Trustees Dealing with A Lack of Commonality Between Beneficiaries 

  • Proactively managing conflict between trust beneficiaries
  • Interpreting Letters of Wishes
  • Engaging in dialogue with the youngest generation, observing cultural shifts

16:15

Build your own agenda!
Choose one of the following sessions
FIRE Contentious Insolvency

Digital Asset and Tracing – Onshore Vs Offshore

  • The Rise Of eDiscovery
  • Dealing with data privacy restrictions in offshore jurisdictions
  • The evolution of eDiscovery in the Cayman court system – what Bermuda and BVI can do to catch up
  • A new way of identifying and analyzing evidence of fraud

Insolvencies Relating to Digital Assets

  •  The impact of liquidations of cryptocurrency exchanges
  • Challenges with untested areas of the law – will regulations change for digital assets
Corporate Disputes Trust Litigation

Strategies For Bringing Litigation Against DAOs

  • Legal responsibilities to shareholders in event of asset mismanagement
  • Director liability in decentralized organizational structures
  • Mechanisms through which DAOs can be compelled to appear in court

Trust Litigation in Divorce

  • Asset tracing and recovery in high net-worth divorce
  • Appraising value of trust assets in divorce cases
  • What can and can’t divorce courts determine as personal assets in divorce

17:00

End of Day 2

17:10

Farewell Drinks

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