With a strong presence across Bermuda, the Channel Islands, and Hong Kong, maitland chambers is geared to handle asset recovery, insolvency, and shareholder disputes. Christopher Parker KC is experienced in professional negligence, fraud, and insolvency, recently securing the restoration of a buy-out order on an unfair prejudice application in Re JF Ming. Richard Morgan KC acted in Ivanishvili & Ors v Credit Suisse Life (Bermuda) Limited, defending a Bermudian appeal concerning a $607.5m fraud judgment. Matthew Collings KC represented the unsecured creditors in Northstar Ltd and Omnia Ltd, landmark proceedings on provisional liquidation and segregated accounts in Bermuda, while David Mumford KC acted for the Rasmala Trade Finance Fund in resisting a Cayman winding-up petition following Covid-19 losses.
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Profile
Position
KC specialising in civil fraud and jurisdiction issues, insolvency, Chancery and commercial matters and international arbitrations. On roll in the BVI and called for cases in Cayman and the Isle of Man.
Career
Qualified 1988, called to Gray’s Inn and Lincoln’s Inn (ad eundem); Silk 2011. Author of ‘International Asset Chasing and Tracing’; contributor ’Butterworths Practical Insolvency’.
Memberships
Chancery Bar Association; COMBAR.
Education
St Edward’s, Oxford; University of Buckingham (1985 LLB); Fitzwilliam College, Cambridge (1987 LLM).
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