Virtual

Minority Oppression Remedy - Cross Border Approach

20 Nov 2020

Location: 9am to 10.30am BVI / US - 1pm to 2.30pm UK Virtual Event (Zoom)
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Minority Oppression Remedy - Cross Border Approach

Highlights

Join us for Brunch with Conyers as we explore minority oppression claims in this multi jurisdictional and multi practice panel session, including coverage of interim measures and asset tracing.

Benefit from a series of quickFIRE presentations followed by an interactive discussion.

Audience participation encouraged. 

Chaired by

Sue Prevezer QC
Barrister
Brick Court Chambers

Sue Prevezer is a senior barrister with over 30 years of experience in commercial litigation at every level of the UK judicial system and in various arbitration forums. Sue sits as a Deputy High Court Judge in the Chancery Division of the High Court and as an arbitrator. She is also a CEDR Mediator and is admitted to the Bar in both the Cayman and the BVI.


Sue Prevezer QC
Sue Prevezer QC Barrister
Brick Court Chambers

Meet your Minority Oppression Speakers

Alex Potts QC
Partner
Conyers (Cayman Islands)

Alex Potts QC is a partner and Head of the Litigation & Restructuring practice in the Cayman Islands office of Conyers. With a particular focus on complex disputes, Alex handles matters in the fields of banking, financial services, investment funds, (re)insurance, professional negligence, company law, trusts, asset recovery and contentious insolvency. Alex is admitted to the Bars of England and Wales (2000, QC 2018), the Cayman Islands (2020), and Bermuda (2007).

Alex has conducted cases and appeared as leading counsel before a variety of first-instance and appellate courts, arbitration tribunals, and regulatory tribunals in England and Wales, Bermuda and the Cayman Islands including the Privy Council. He is frequently instructed as counsel in international arbitrations and mediations, and associated legal proceedings.

Alex is a member of a number of professional organizations including INSOL International, Chartered Institute of Arbitrators, COMBAR and the Chancery Bar Association and has served as an appointed member of Bermuda’s Copyright Tribunal and Human Rights Tribunal.


Alex Potts QC
Alex Potts QC Partner
Conyers (Cayman Islands)
Julia Beskin
Partner
Quinnn Emanuel (USA)

Julia Beskin
Julia Beskin Partner
Quinnn Emanuel (USA)
Richard Millett QC
Barrister
Essex Court Chambers

Richard Millett QC has a broad commercial practice covering a variety of different specialist areas, with an emphasis on advocacy in court and in arbitration and other tribunals. He specialises in banking and financial markets, hedge fund and private equity disputes, insurance and reinsurance, insolvency, energy, and media and entertainment. He regularly appears in the Chancery Division, Commercial Court, the Court of Appeal and numerous arbitrations, both in London and overseas.


Richard Millett QC
Richard Millett QC Barrister
Essex Court Chambers
Jerry Samuel
Partner
Conyers (BVI)

Jerry Samuel is a Partner in the Litigation and Restructuring department of Conyers in the British Virgin Islands. Jerry joined Conyers in 2008.

Jerry regularly appears as an advocate before the BVI Commercial Court and his practice covers all aspects of commercial and civil litigation. He specializes in insolvency, cross border relief/assistance, jurisdictional disputes, urgent interim relief, shareholder disputes and asset tracing. Jerry works closely with international legal teams on a regular basis on various types of multi-jurisdictional disputes and advises a broad range of clients, including corporate directors, financial institutions and insolvency practitioners.

Jerry is also a Notary Public and a Member of the BVI Bar Association, the Restructuring and Insolvency Specialists Association, the Chartered Institute of Arbitrators and the Judicial and Legal Services Commission.


Jerry Samuel
Jerry Samuel Partner
Conyers (BVI)

Agenda

8.55am BVI, 12.55pm UK
Audience Logon
9.00am BVI, 1.00pm UK
Chair's Opening Remarks
Speakers:
Sue Prevezer QC - Barrister - Brick Court Chambers
9.05am BVI, 1.05pm UK
QuickFIRE Presentations
Speakers:
Richard Millett QC - Barrister - Essex Court Chambers
Jerry Samuel - Partner - Conyers (BVI)
Julia Beskin - Partner - Quinnn Emanuel (USA)
Alex Potts QC - Partner - Conyers (Cayman Islands)
9.45am BVI, 1.45pm UK
Panel Session Q&A
10.15am BVI, 2.15pm UK
Chair's Summation & Close of Event
Speakers:
Sue Prevezer QC - Barrister - Brick Court Chambers

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