Praised for its ‘range of fantastic barristers’, XXIV Old Buildings is geared to handle financial-based disputes. With experience before the Eastern Caribbean Supreme Court, Stephen Moverley Smith KC acted in the highly significant case, Minsheng Vocational Education Company Limited v Leed Education Holding Limited & Ors. The matter was the first Cayman Islands Court of Appeal decision confirming the Grand Court’s power to grant injunctions in support of foreign arbitrations. David Brownbill KC was instructed on Perry and Perry v Lopag and Others, a Privy Council matter concerning the transfer of a Cayman company to a Liechtenstein trust. Francis Tregear KC acted for BELCO Limited in the Bermudian judicial review proceedings against determinations of the Bermuda Regulatory Authority. Daniel Warents’ workload encompasses Frabran and Ors v Daventree Trustees and Ors, a multi-jurisdictional dispute surrounding the alleged fraudulent misappropriation of over $600m in trust assets.
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Stephen specialises in litigation and arbitration in the fields of commercial, company, trusts and business law.
With a background of high profile work for the DTI and Inland Revenue as junior counsel to the Crown (Chancery) prior to taking silk in 2002, Stephen has developed an extensive practice in the fields of hostile corporate and trust litigation, insolvency, civil fraud and joint venture disputes (in both a corporate and partnership context), often for private clients.
Stephen has practiced in the regulatory field for many years and was appointed a Joint Inspector by the DTI (now BERR) to investigate allegations of market abuse. His on-going regulatory work includes cases is in the area of collective Investment schemes and land banking.
Stephen has an extensive off-shore practice, particularly in the British Virgin Islands (since 1995) and Cayman Islands. He is regularly involved in multi-jurisdictional disputes, advising on global strategy, interim remedies, conflicts of law and asset recovery and appearing before courts and arbitral tribunals in a wide variety of jurisdictions.
Career
Called 1985, Middle Temple; junior counsel to the Crown, Chancery; called to the Bar of the Eastern Caribbean; Queens Counsel 2002.
Memberships
- Bar of the Eastern Caribbean Supreme Court
- Bar of Saint Vincent and the Grenadines
- Chancery Bar Association
- COMBAR
- European Circuit
- Insolvency Lawyers Association
Education
- Pembroke College Oxford (MA)
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