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FIRE Year in Review: A Year Like no Other

04 Dec 2020

Location: 12pm - 2.00pm Virtual Event (Zoom)
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FIRE Year in Review: A Year Like no Other

Highlights

FIRE Year in Review is the ultimate showdown between 14 of the top global FIRE practitioners. In a year like no other, which has been the most important FIRE topic of the year? You decide!

Tune in for a unique format whereby:

  • Each speaker pitches their topic for 5 minutes
  • Strict 5 minutes with the mute button at the ready
  • Each speaker has 30 seconds to object to a topic being important
  • Audience decides the winner at the end

Chaired by Mary Young, Kingsley Napley, the mute button is not an idle threat. See below for your line-up of competitors. 

Meet your competitors

Mary Young
Partner
Kingsley Napley

Mary is a dispute resolution partner at Kingsley Napley.  She is a commercial litigator with a specialism in civil fraud and asset tracing.  She acts for individuals, companies, insolvency practitioners and other law firms. Mary can supervise your search order, loves a freezing injunction and in recent years has developed expertise in cases involving bribery.  People say nice things about her in the directories including one comment which compared her to a dog.  Mary really needs a new photo as she has much more grey hair now.


Mary Young
Mary Young Partner
Kingsley Napley
Yves Klein
Partner
Monfrini Bitton Klein (Switzerland)

Yves Klein’s main activity is litigating and coordinating transnational asset recovery proceedings on behalf of victims of economic crimes or parties seeking to enforce their claims against assets concealed in Switzerland or abroad. He develops strategies for the international search and recovery of assets, coordinates cross-border proceedings and represents his clients, including individuals, companies, foreign governments, and liquidators of foreign insolvencies, before civil, criminal and bankruptcy courts, in order to recover crime proceeds and obtain damages, notably from facilitators (banks, financial companies, fiduciaries, etc.).


Yves Klein
Yves Klein Partner
Monfrini Bitton Klein (Switzerland)
Vicky Lord
Managing Partner, Shanghai
Harneys (China)

Vicky Lord is the managing partner of our Shanghai office in the People’s Republic of China, heading our Litigation, Restructuring and Insolvency team. She frequently obtains significant wins for clients acting as a litigator in high-value, high-profile commercial offshore disputes with cross-border elements.


Vicky Lord
Vicky Lord Managing Partner, Shanghai
Harneys (China)
Rick Brown
Partner
HFW

Rick is Co-Head of the Fraud and Insolvency team. Rick specialises in complex, high value cross-border fraud and insolvency matters, including those which involve claims for breach of contract, fraud and/or breach of fiduciary duties and asset tracing. He has also worked on a number of offshore trust matters in the Caribbean, Gibraltar and elsewhere. He regularly deals with and instructs investigators and offshore lawyers. Rick Brown is based in the London office and is also BVI qualified. Rick has considerable experience in acting for insolvency practitioners, mainly on contentious complex cross-border insolvency matters. He has valuable experience of interlocutory hearings and trials in the Commercial Court in the British Virgin Islands and elsewhere in the Caribbean and has significant experience acting for clients on claims involving parties from China, Russia and the Former Soviet Union, as well as the Middle East.


Rick Brown
Rick Brown Partner
HFW
Sinead Harris
Partner
Withers

Sinead Harris
Sinead Harris Partner
Withers
Jason Woodland
Partner
Peters & Peters

Jason is a partner in the Commercial Litigation, Civil Fraud and Asset Tracing department. He specialises in heavy-weight commercial and competition/anti-trust litigation, and arbitration. Many of Jason’s cases involve allegations of fraud and Jason has significant experience of tracing and recovering the proceeds of fraud on behalf of claimants. He regularly acts in cases involving emergency injunctive relief such as freezing injunctions and search orders.

Jason also represents defendants to civil proceedings, and has particular expertise in dealing with civil claims where there is a parallel criminal investigation.


Jason Woodland
Jason Woodland Partner
Peters & Peters
Nicola Finnerty
Partner
Kingsley Napley

Nicola is a leading criminal defence expert in white collar and business crime, general criminal defence, and proceeds of crime and asset forfeiture.


Nicola Finnerty
Nicola Finnerty Partner
Kingsley Napley
Jason Freedman
Partner
Charles Russell Speechlys

Jason advises on all aspects of corporate and personal insolvency law, acting for office holders, secured and unsecured creditors, debtors and other stakeholders. He specialises in contentious insolvency litigation and cross-border fraud and asset tracing, focusing on dishonesty claims and antecedent transactions.  He also has significant experience in acting for office holders, companies, directors, shareholders and secured creditors in relation to administrations and administration sales, and advises suppliers in respect of ROT claims in retail administrations.


Jason Freedman
Jason Freedman Partner
Charles Russell Speechlys
Jennifer Fox
Partner, Cayman Islands
Ogier (Cayman)

Jennifer is the head of the dispute resolution team in the Cayman Islands office. She is recognised in all the leading directories and has been practising in the Cayman Islands since 2009 (and in the BVI since 2008) and has substantial experience of all contentious issues coming before the Cayman Islands courts. Her practice spans all aspects of complex commercial litigation, fraud and asset tracing including crypto disputes, contentious insolvency and restructuring, and contentious private client work


Jennifer Fox
Jennifer Fox Partner, Cayman Islands
Ogier (Cayman)
David Hinrichsen
Director
FRP

David is a director and insolvency appointment taker in FRP’s disputes and investigation services group.  He has extensive experience in contentious insolvency matters, litigation and asset recovery.  David has worked across a wide variety of subjects and industries, ranging from specialist insolvency claims to general commercial matters and competition cases, which emanate from all types of corporate and personal insolvency scenarios.  David is a licensed insolvency practitioner, chartered certified accountant (FCCA) and a former solicitor.


David Hinrichsen
David Hinrichsen Director
FRP
Natalie Todd
Partner
Cooke, Young & Keidan

Ranked as a Next Generation Partner in Civil Fraud and Commercial Litigation by The Legal 500, Natalie is a partner specialising in complex multi-jurisdictional commercial litigation including banking and financial services litigation, insolvency, fraud and asset recovery.  She is a “partner who is one to watch”, “personable, professional and user friendly, great to work with, always on top of the detail”. Natalie has expertise in litigation and arbitration involving banking and financial services, insolvency, trust, contractual, partnership, shareholder and commercial disputes.  She has a particular specialism in fraud and asset recovery and has acted on some high profile Russian and CIS cases.  She has worked on multi-jurisdictional asset tracing cases, including obtaining extensive Worldwide Freezing, Search, Disclosure and Passport Surrender Orders in one of Russia’s biggest ever alleged bank frauds.


Natalie Todd
Natalie Todd Partner
Cooke, Young & Keidan
Syedur Rahman
Partner
Rahman Ravelli

Syed's great depth of experience in serious fraud, financial crime and multi-jurisdictional investigations has earmarked him as a robust solicitor. He is proficient in both civil and criminal cases, where there is an allegation of corporate wrongdoing. Syed has substantial experience in advising corporate entities and their directors and officers in relation to investigations conducted by all the major enforcement agencies. He has also built an impressive reputation in the field of asset-tracing and recovery, with a respected track record regarding international disputes where urgent relief is required involving freezing orders and recovering misappropriated assets.

Syed is recognised for his sector-leading, pioneering cryptocurrency work, having secured a number of significant legal firsts when representing institutions and individuals. His specialist expertise in civil recovery proceedings under Part 5 of the Proceeds of Crime Act (POCA) has also led to him recording notable successes for clients in national and international cases.

Syed has a dynamic practice involving complex sanctions issues and related litigation. He has notable cases in this area, including representation of public limited companies (PLC’s) trading on the London Stock Exchange in relation to international sanctions on Russia, public joint-stock companies (PJSC’s) trading on the Moscow Stock Exchange regarding UK and EU sanctions on Russia and a major Russian power engineering company headquartered in St Petersburg relating to international sanctions advice. Syed regularly prepares licence applications to release frozen funds or economic resources for designated persons and entities. He is also adept at challenging sanctions designations.

He is known for his abilities in multijurisdictional, worldwide asset recovery cases – including obtaining and defending the full range of injunctions - high-stakes commercial and financial disputes and cross-border investigations involving attacks on clients’ interests by numerous governments or agencies. His skill in defending high-profile corruption, fraud and regulatory allegations and his ability to negotiate with investigators have ensured his clients receive the strongest representation.

The Chambers UK Guide regularly ranks Syed as an elite solicitor. It has called him “a very technically gifted lawyer’’ and has said he “gets on top of all the facts in complex cases’’. Chambers has described him as “very committed to the work he does’’ and said he “leaves no stone unturned and has a passion for what he does’’. It has repeatedly highlighted his expertise in POCA work and asset recovery proceedings. The 2023 edition of Chambers praises his ability to “forge ground in fast-developing areas’’ and his cryptocurrency case skills.

Syed’s clients include corporates and their directors, financial institutions, hedge funds, high net worth individuals and international private clients around the world. Syed has a particular interest in litigation arising from mergers and acquisitions, derivatives and securities offerings (IPO’s, SPAC IPO’s and debt offerings) and works with private equity funds and private sponsors for public companies.

He is adept at advising corporate entities and their directors and officers on their regulatory and compliance obligations and in investigations conducted by agencies such as the Serious Fraud Office, Financial Conduct Authority, National Crime Agency and HM Revenue & Customs. His ability to assess complex issues, establish the facts and analyse challenging sets of circumstances have seen him excel on internal investigations carried out for Rahman Ravelli’s corporate clients.

Syed routinely advises clients in FCA investigations into alleged market abuse, breaches of regulated activities and unauthorised trading. He is sought by asset management firms and chief investment officers at hedge funds facing enforcement proceedings and financial services litigation.

The Legal 500 has called Syed “a creative thinker’’, “a master of detail’’ and someone who “entirely devotes himself to his cases’’. It has drawn attention to the wide variety of global corporate wrongdoing and multi-jurisdictional bribery and corruption investigations he has worked on. It has praised his “incredible depth of experience when it comes to fraud matters, and in particular those with an international element or where the National Crime Agency are involved.’’ The 2023 edition calls him “one of the most well-respected names’’ in the legal world and emphasises his abilities in emerging areas such as SPACs and cryptocurrency fraud.

Syed is also in demand to work on cases where there is the possibility of securing a deferred prosecution agreement (DPA) for clients. The Legal 500 has noted Rahman Ravelli’s expertise in advising on DPAs and recognised that Syed “goes the extra mile to get the best results for his clients in leading on a multi-jurisdictional matter concerning this area”.

His recent work has involved global energy sector corruption allegations, major financial services cases, fintech companies and many of the most complex worldwide asset recovery cases.


Syedur Rahman
Syedur Rahman Partner
Rahman Ravelli
Matthew Weaver
Barrister
Radcliffe Chambers

Matthew has an impressive commercial practice with a particular specialism in insolvency and company law. He is also experienced in commercial fraud and asset tracing, and partnership and professional liability, allowing him to provide his clients with a wide commercial law service covering a range of commercial issues and disputes.

He is well respected by his peers, instructing solicitors, lay clients and judges, for his abilities on paper and in court, and his common sense, commercial approach to disputes. Matthew has been recommended consistently over a number of years by both Chambers UK Bar and The Legal 500 UK Bar. He is a regular contributor to Corporate Rescue and Insolvency as well as being a speaker at many seminars. In 2019, he was appointed as a Recorder of the County Court.


Matthew Weaver QC
Matthew Weaver Barrister
Radcliffe Chambers
Elizabeth Houghton
Barrister
Wilberforce Chambers

Elizabeth has a very broad commercial chancery practice. She frequently appears   in the High Court, County Court and tribunals, both in led teams and in her own right. She is often instructed in complex commercial matters with an international element.

Recent work has involved jurisdictions including the Isle of Man, Cayman Islands, Jersey, Mauritius, Andorra, Switzerland, Italy, Russia and the Marshall Islands.

Elizabeth’s work frequently involves asset tracing across a number of jurisdictions and working closely with insolvency practitioners, litigation funders and other professionals.


Elizabeth Houghton
Elizabeth Houghton Barrister
Wilberforce Chambers
David Jones
Partner
Carey Olsen (Guernsey)

David Jones is an advocate and head of the restructuring and insolvency team at Carey Olsen in Guernsey. He advises on complex restructurings and formal insolvencies in contentious, non-contentious and multi-jurisdictional matters.  He has been involved in many of the largest insolvencies involving Guernsey entities and global retailers. He is able to assist lenders in respect of the taking and enforcement of all forms of security. David regularly advises the boards of distressed entities and has extensive experience acting for office holders on all aspects of their appointments including the tracing and recovery of assets.

David is a member of the Insolvency Lawyers Association and R3 and sits on the young members Committee of INSOL International. David lectures on INSOL's Foundation Certificate in International Insolvency and is part of the working group tasked with updating and revising Guernsey's insolvency laws. He has also been appointed as a member of Guernsey's first ever Insolvency Rules Committee (IRC).

 


David Jones
David Jones Partner
Carey Olsen (Guernsey)

Agenda

11.55am
Audience Logon
12.00pm
Chair's Opening Remarks
Speakers:
Mary Young - Partner - Kingsley Napley
12.05pm
FIRE Year in Review: Showdown
  1. Crown Preference 
  2. SFO 
  3. Quincecare 
  4. CIGA 2020 
  5. Black Swan
  6. Decisions re freezing injunctions – use of funds
  7. Search order v imaging order
  8. Marex
  9. Remote Trials
  10. NCA – Unexplained Wealth Orders
  11. Contempt – changes to CPR
  12. Provisional liquidations in BVI & Cayman 
  13. Changes to Guernsey insolvency laws )
  14. Service – changes this year and to come 
Speakers:
David Hinrichsen - Director - FRP
Syedur Rahman - Partner - Rahman Ravelli
Rick Brown - Partner - HFW
Sinead Harris - Partner - Withers
Vicky Lord - Managing Partner, Shanghai - Harneys (China)
Yves Klein - Partner - Monfrini Bitton Klein (Switzerland)
Natalie Todd - Partner - Cooke, Young & Keidan
Matthew Weaver QC - Barrister - Radcliffe Chambers
Nicola Finnerty - Partner - Kingsley Napley
Jason Woodland - Partner - Peters & Peters
Jennifer Fox - Partner, Cayman Islands - Ogier (Cayman)
David Jones - Partner - Carey Olsen (Guernsey)
Jason Freedman - Partner - Charles Russell Speechlys
Elizabeth Houghton - Barrister - Wilberforce Chambers
1.20pm
Topic Rebuttals
1.30pm
Audience Vote & Panel Q&A Discussion
1.45pm
Chair's Summation & Close of Event

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