OFFSHORE DISPUTES WEEK

24–26 MARCH 2025 | Hotel Indigo Grand Cayman

100+ INTERNATIONAL EXPERTS

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

OFFSHORE WELCOMES ONSHORE

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

KEY OFFSHORE JURISDICTIONS

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

Welcome Drinks Reception

13:30

Registration
Register your attendance and pick up your badge.

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

Jose Carrizo, Partner, Morgan & Morgan (Panama)

N/A

Corporate Disputes Trust Litigation

N/A

Bridging Generational Gaps Between Trustees and Beneficiaries

Peter Goddard, Head of Private Client Services, IMG Trusts

Bhavesh Patel, Partner, Travers Thorp (Cayman Islands)

Chantal Basson, Clinical Psychologist, Health Services Authority (Cayman Islands)

14:50

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

The Art of Acting for Offshore Trustees in Fraud Litigation

William Christopher, Partner, Kingsley Napley (UK)

N/A

Corporate Disputes Trust Litigation

What's Next for Crypto

Howard Fischer, Partner, Moses & Singer (New York)

Turning Crisis into Opportunity: A Reputation Management Challenge for Trust Companies

Allan Dunlavy, Partner, Schillings (Miami)

15:30

Networking Break

16:00

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

Cross Border Cultural Challenges in Asset Recovery

Henrique Forssell, Founding Partner, Duarte Forssell Advogados (Brazil)

 

Josh Kemp, Partner, ADG Legal (UAE)

Technology in Your Practice – What Software Do You Use

Richard Kaplan, Founding Partner, Kaplan Marino (Los Angeles)

Kateryna Honcharenko, Senior Business Development Consultant - Hearings, Opus 2 (UK)

Corporate Disputes Trust Litigation

N/A

Doing Due Diligence on Assets Placed in Trust

David Jandrasits, Partner and Attorney at Law, Schwärzler Attorneys at Law (Liechtenstein)

16:40

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

Women In FIRE

Danielle Carr, Partner, Browne Jacobson (UK)

Alexia Adda, Counsel, Claritas Legal (Cayman Islands)

 

Personal Brand and Career Progression

Emily Ward, Attorney at Law, Continuum Legal Group (Atlanta)

 

Corporate Disputes Trust Litigation

How To Build Your International Practice

Joshua Rievman, Partner, Dunning Rievman & Macdonald (New York)

 

 

 

17:20

End of Roundtable Day

17:30

Welcome Drinks

09:00

Registration & Morning Refreshments

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

09:15

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.

09.30

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

Sara-Jane Knock, Partner, Withers (BVI)

Alex Hall Taylor KC, Partner, Carey Olsen (BVI)

Laurence Ponty, Partner, Archipel (Switzerland)

Spencer Vickers, Co-Chairperson, RISA Cayman

10:15

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

Benoit Mauron, Partner, LALIVE (Switzerland)

Robert True, Counsel, Quinn Emanuel (Australia)

Henry Hutten, Partner, Freshfields (New York)

Quentin Cregan, Partner, Maples Group (Cayman Islands)

11.00

Networking Break

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

Tom Sullivan, Attorney, Marks & Sokolov (Philadelphia)

Lynsey Barron, Attorney, Barron Law (Atlanta)

Dr. Diora Ziyaeva, Partner, US Sector Co-Lead, Mining & Natural Resources, Dentons (New York)

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
    Nicholas Kennedy, Partner, Baker McKenzie (Dallas)

    Baruch Baigel, Partner & Head of Dispute Resolution, Asserson (UK)
    Thomas Eymond-Laritaz, Founder & CEO, Highgate
    (UK)

Value Extraction for stakeholders: Cayman Islands and US perspectives

  • The Cayman Islands Restructuring Officer regime two years on
  • When liquidations are the option of first resort
  • US trends and interplay with offshore
    Joel Cohen, Managing Director, New York Office Leader, Stout (New York)
    Fiona Macadam, Partner, Walkers (Cayman)
    Alan Lipkin, Partner, Chaffetz Lindsey (New York)
    Liam Faulkner, Partner, Campbells (Cayman Islands)
    Tom Wright, Partner, Bedell Cristin Cayman Partnership

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

Shan Greer, Chief Executive Officer, BVI International Arbitration Centre (BVI)
Damián Vallejo, Partner, Dunning Rievman & Macdonald (New York)
Alexander Cook KC, Barrister, 4 Stone Buildings
Paige von Mehren, Senior Associate, Freshfields (New York)

Distress With Trustees

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


    Ian Herbert, Member, Miller & Chevalier Chartered (New York)
    Anthony Partridge, Partner, Ogier (Cayman Islands)
    Chantal Basson, Clinical Psychologist, Health Services Authority (Cayman Islands)

 

 

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
    Shaul Brazil, Partner, BCL (UK)
    Matt Kaiser, Partner, Kaiser (Washington DC)

    Richard Albert, Partner, Morvillo Abramowitz Grand Iason & Anello PC (New York)
    Drew Nicholls, Senior Manager, Deloitte (Cayman Islands)

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
    Marcelo Sacramone, Partner, Sacramone, Orleans e Braganca Advogados (Brazil)
    Duane Loft, Partner, Pallas Partners (New York)
    Ruth Simpson, Director, Advisory, PWC (Cayman)
Corporate Disputes Trust Litigation

Appropriate Use of Alternative Dispute Resolution Methods

  • Types of ADR available in different jurisdictions, a comparison
  • Mediation: a deeper dive
  • How to use Mediation to its full potential to settle commercial disputes
    Jolie Apicella, Partner, Wiggin (New York)
    Steven Davidson, Partner, Steptoe (Washington DC)
    Melanie Hart, Partner, Kingsley Napley (UK)

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

    Gemma Willingham, Partner, Baker McKenzie (UK

    Esmond Brown, Counsel, Appleby (Cayman Islands)
    Tom McPhail, Senior Associate, Farrer (UK)

    Rachael Reynolds KC, Global Senior Partner, Ogier (Cayman Islands)

 

 

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
    Lucas Moore, Partner, Payne Hicks Beach (UK)
    Marcelo Lucidi, Parther, Duarte Foressell Advogadoes (Brazil)
    Jorge Bastos Leitao, Partner, RBMS (Portugal)
    Aurélie Conrad Hari, Partner, Bär & Karrer (Switzerland)

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
    Alissa Nann, Of Counsel, Foley & Lardner (New York)
    Tameka Davis, Partner, Conyers (BVI)
    Annalisa Shibli, Counsel, Collas Crill (Cayman Islands)

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


Sarah McLennan, Counsel, Forbes Hare (Cayman Islands)
Laura Oseland, Senior Associate, Nelsons Legal (Cayman)

 Correcting Trustee Mistakes

  • From Hastings-Bass to Pitt v. Holt and Schroder Cayman Bank and Trust
  • Cayman Islands: Trusts Law, s. 64A
  • Setting aside decisions in the US
  • The Mistake Jurisdiction - England, Cayman, US
  • Rectification in England and Cayman vs Reformation in the US
    Roberta Harvey, Partner, Forsters (UK)
    Josh Lewison, Barrister, Radcliffe Chambers
    Tom McPhail, Senior Associate, Farrer (UK)
    Lucy Diggle, Partner, Walkers Global (Cayman Islands)
 

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
    Sunil Abraham, Partner, Cecil Abraham & Partners (Malaysia)
    Catherine Hammerson-Jones, Partner, Rosenblatt (UK)
    Piers Plumptre, Partner, Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher (UK)

Dissenting Shareholder Work

  • Evolution of dissenter shareholder work and the key issues arising in cases
  • US -v- Offshore perspective: how do they differ and things you should be aware of
  • Emerging trends in dissenting shareholder work and the current legal landscape
    Lori Marks-Esterman, Executive Committee Member; Chair, Litigation Practice, Olshan Frome Wolosky (New York)
    Brianna Hills Simopoulos, Associate, Pallas Partners (New York)
Corporate Disputes Trust Litigation

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
    Nina Marino, Partner, Kaplan Marino (Los Angeles)
    Barbara Llanes, Partner, Gelber Schachter & Greenberg (Miami)

N/A

 

16:45

End of Day 1

16:50

Networking Drinks

09:00

Networking & Morning Refreshments

09:15

Welcome Back Remarks from The Advisory Board

09:20

Keynote Session
Views from the Judiciary
The Hon. Justice Margaret Ramsay-Hale, The Chief Justice of the Cayman Islands

10.10

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

James Berger, Partner, DLA Piper (New York/Washington DC)

Shelley White, Partner, Walkers (Cayman Islands)

Scott Berman, Partner, Friedman Kaplan (New York)

11.00

Networking Break

11.30

Valuation Disputes and the Assessment of Loss in Complex Cases

•    Legal issues affecting value and loss
•    Statutory merger disputes
•    Guidance on expert valuation exercises 
pitfalls and what we can learn from it

Sharif Shivji KC, Barrister, 4 Stone Buildings

James Nicholson, Senior Managing Director, Head of Asia Economic & Financial Consulting, FTI Consulting (Singapore)

Simon Dickson, Partner, Mourant (Cayman Islands)

12:20

Networking Lunch

13:20

Efficient Use of Technology in Legal Practice – What Does It Mean?

•   AI & legal profession: streamlining practices while being mindful of technology-associated risks 
•    Can we make sure AI enhances access to justice?
•    Technology-related regulatory developments and professional liability considerations
•    Fraud, bias and fairness 
•    Technology and legal processes integration

Hon. Justice Jalil Asif KC, Judge, Grand Court of the Cayman Islands

Enrique Riquelme, Counsel, Von Wobeser y Sierra (Mexico)

Kirsten Bailey, Senior Associate, Collas Crill (Cayman Islands)

Kateryna Honcharenko, Senior Business Development Consultant - Hearings, Opus 2 (UK)

 

14.10

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

Marlyn Narkis, Partner, MDU Legal (Panama)

Changez Khan, Senior Associate, Marshall, Diel & Myers (Bermuda)

Peter Chaffetz, Founding Partner, Chaffetz Lindsey (New York)

15:00

Networking Break

15:30

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
    Zachary Bluestone, Lawyer, Bluestone P.C. (New York)
    Rebecca Hume, Partner, Howard Kennedy (UK)
    Leyza Florin, Shareholder, Sequor Law (Miami)

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
    Katherine Catanese, Foley & Lardner (New York)
    Cody Reedman, Lawyer, Reedman Law (Canada)
Corporate Disputes Trust Litigation

Latest Developments in Corporate Disputes and Strategic Litigation

  • Corporate Litigation and Strategies/challenges in pursuing directors
  • Strategies for bringing litigation against Decentralized Autonomous Organizations
  • Other developments
    Gabriela Ruiz, Managing Partner, King & Ruiz 
    (Miami / LATAM)
    Danielle Carr, Partner, Brown Jacobson (UK)
    Kenneth M. Krys, Executive Chairman & Founder, Krys Global (Cayman Islands)
    Megan Paget-Brown, Chief Executive Officer, Cayman International Mediation and Arbitration Center

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

    Ziva Robertson, Partner, Charles Russell Speechlys (UK)
    Melanie Magnusson, Founding Lawyer, Magnusson Law (Canada)
    Bryan Jones, Partner, Hughes Fowler Carruthers (UK)

16:10

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
    Robert Appleton, Partner, Olshan Frome Wolosky (New York)
    Michael Baratz, Partner, Steptoe (Washington DC)
    William Christopher, Partner, Kingsley Napley (UK)
    Nicholas Brookes, Partner, Ogier (BVI)

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

    Howard Fischer, Partner, Moses & Singer (USA)
    David Harby, Partner, CANDEY (BVI and London)

    Amiel Gottlieb, Director, Interpath Advisory (Cayman Islands)
Corporate Disputes Trust Litigation

Evaluating Director Liability

  • Offshore jurisdiction regulation for director liability and derivative claims
  • Options for pre-action discovery to establish liability and support asset tracing
    Alex Stolyar, Partner, Loeb & Loeb (Los Angeles)
    Matthew Wescott, Partner, JMW (UK)

    Dan Wise, Partner, MKS Law (British Virgin Islands)

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
    Hannes Arnold, Senior Partner, Gasser Partner (Liechtenstein)
    Michael Cash, Partner, Penningtons Manches Cooper (UK)
    Carlos de Serpa Pimentel, Partner, Appleby (Cayman Islands)


16:50

End of Day 2

17:00

Farewell Drinks

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