FIRE Channel Islands & Isle of Man

FIRE Networking Voyage Legal Walking Tour of Guernsey
10:00am

Duration of Walk | 10:00am - 11:30am

This walk provides an excellent opportunity to network with fellow attendees while taking in the beautiful Guernsey coastline. Be sure to wear comfortable walking shoes and bring a bottle of water. The walk is designed to be a casual, relaxed event to foster conversation and connection.

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'Women in FIRE' Networking Brunch
11.30AM

Duration of Lunch | 11:30am - 1:15pm

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Walk to Hotel for the Conference Registration
1.15pm

15 min Walk to the Conference Venue | 1.15pm - 1.30pm

Conference Registration
1:30pm

Advisory Board Welcome
1:50pm

Managing The Costs and Timelines of Asset Recovery Efforts
2.00pm

• Careful planning from the beginning and being flexible throughout the process
• Strategies for budgeting recovery efforts
• Avoiding procedural delays

Polly Sprenger - Partner - Addleshaw Goddard
Rebecca Newell - Counsel - Hogan Lovells
Syedur Rahman - Partner - Rahman Ravelli

Mastering Freezing Injunctions
2.40pm

• The need for preserving assets during legal proceedings
• Enforcing freezing orders on the Islands
• Defending against wrongful injunction

Andy McGregor - Partner - Enyo Law
Jason Woodland - Partner - Peters & Peters
Anthony Williams - Partner - Appleby

Refreshment Break
3.20pm

Exploring International Enforcement and Non-Performing Loans
3.50pm

• Understanding the current landscape for NPLs
• Strategies for realising value
• Common legal and jurisdictional challenges and the need for international collaboration

Jennifer Craven - Legal Director - Pinsent Masons
Alan Sheeley - Partner - Pinsent Masons

The Burning Questions for the Year Ahead
4.30pm

Each speaker has 5 minutes to say what they think the main FIRE topic will be, with the opportunity for a 30 second rebuttal and then it goes to an audience vote

Advisory Board - Thank you to FIRE Starters
5.00pm

Welcome Drinks Reception
5.10pm

Registration
9.00am

Chairs' Opening Remarks
9.30am

Keynote session: Legal & Regulatory Update
09:40am

Advocate Mark Harris
Viscount of the Royal Court of Jersey

A Review of Where We Are on Director’s Liabilities
10.20am

• BHS decision – what it means for directors
• Will this change the landscape?
• What are directors doing now with their professional advice

Sophie van de Graaff - Partner - Agorax
Amita Chohan - Barrister - Troutman Pepper Locke
Dipti Hunter - Partner - HCR Law
Lucy Colter - Barrister - 4 New Square Chambers
Tim Thornton - Business Restructuring Director - BDO

Networking & Refreshment Break
11.20am

Comparing And Contrasting the Insolvency Toolkit
11:50am

• What tools do different jurisdictions have to use
• Unpacking the modernisation to the Isle of Man Insolvency Law
• Winding up structures for efficiency

Karen Petch  - Barrister - Twenty Essex
Mark Wilson - Partner & Head of Complex and International Recovery Work - Gateley Legal
Sinead Harris - Partner - Withersworldwide
Claire Corkish - Partner - Appleby (Isle of Man)

Ensuring a Successful Enforcement
12.35pm

• Key challenges in enforcing court orders in complex asset recovery cases
• Leveraging cross-border collaboration to ensure enforcement success
• Balancing privacy laws and accessing critical information

Caroline Phipps - Partner - LK Law
Fabio Trevisan - Partner - BSP
Katherine Jensen - Senior Associate - Osborne Clarke

Lunch
1.20pm

The Intersection of Trust Structures And FIRE
2.20pm

• Common use of offshore trusts in asset protection
• Unwinding trust arrangements to recover assets
• Understanding trust assets in insolvency cases

Brandon O'Neil - Partner - A&O Shearman
Oliver Auld - Partner - Charles Russell Speechlys
Gareth Bell - Managing Partner - Collas Crill

Using Compliance and Assessments to Prevent Fraud
3.00pm

• Impacts of fraud cross-border
• MONEYVAL Assessment and what it means
• How the assessment shapes the work that goes in and out
• Working with grey lists as a consequence of FATF evaluations

Ian Hargreaves - Partner - Quillon Law

Exploring an Administration Regime
3.40pm

• Exploring changes to the Companies (Jersey) Law 1991
• Impacts to the creation of an administration regime
• Exploring the whole appointment process
• Comparative Regime – English Administration

Rebecca Walker - Partner and Head of Restructuring & Insolvency - Lester Aldridge
Jonathan Barham - Partner - Collas Crill
Crispin Daly  - Partner - Howard Kennedy

Advisory Board Closing Remarks
4.20pm