CPD/CPT Course:
Asset Tracing Remedies
in the BVI and
Cayman Islands' Courts

Mr. Ian Mann a barrister by training, Ian Mann is a leading offshore litigator, senior tactician and thought leader.  He is the long term head of Harneys' Offshore Litigation and Restructuring Department in Hong Kong.

Ian lectures regularly to judicial, professional and academic bodies.  He is the author of both of the leading offshore textbooks on British Virgin Islands Commercial Law and Bermuda Commercial Law (Sweet & Maxwell Thomson Reuters), and is a contributor to The Offshore Litigation Blog, a Harneys blog that shares news and views about litigation, dispute resolution, restructuring and insolvency offshore.  He is a Fellow of INSOL International as well as a qualified Trusts and Estates Practitioner (TEP).  He is regularly asked to provide his expert opinion on offshore law to various Courts of Law.

Ian specialises in restructuring, insolvency, shareholders' disputes and contentious trusts.  He is an experienced advocate and continues to appear in Court regularly.  He has been involved in every major recent restructuring in the region involving offshore entities and is a specialist in cross border and conflict of laws dilemmas.  He was appointed as BVI Counsel to the Estate of Nina Wang and has been involved in some of Asia’s highest value contentious Estate litigation.  He regularly appears on behalf of elite families and is usually retained on a long term basis for strategic global offshore litigation advice.

Ian is ranked as a leading offshore lawyer by Chambers and Legal 500 and is recognised as being amongst the world’s leading asset recovery, restructuring & insolvency and private client lawyers by Who’s Who Legal 2016.  He is also one of ten offshore lawyers recognised for client service in Asia by Asian Legal Business for 2017.

Mr. James Noble, Partner, Harney Westwood & Riegels (Harneys)

• Partner in the Hong Kong Litigation and Restructuring Department.
• Advising on BVI and Cayman law.
• Specialises in shareholder litigation and hedge fund disputes.
• Has a broad range of experience in financial services litigation and insolvency.
• Also advises on a broad range of domestic and international disputes including injunction applications.

Stephentica Lee is an associate of the firm’s Litigation and Restructuring Department in Hong Kong.  She joined the firm in 2014 and has experience in general commercial litigation.  Stephentica was trained with Richards Butler before joining Allen & Overy’s dispute resolution team, where she gained experience in a wide range of contentious disputes including those with regulatory and insolvency elements.

The course aims to help Hong Kong lawyers advise their clients on offshore litigation remedies in combating fraud.

• Obtaining information from the Company Registrar in the BVI and Cayman Islands
• Norwich Pharmacal Orders
• Bankers Trust Orders
• Asset tracing claims
• Knowing receipt
• Dishonest Assistance
• Restitution
• Freezing injunctions in support of foreign proceedings
• Fraud claims and protecting assets in HK and the PRC
• International cross border litigation
• Co-operation between the Courts of HK, BVI and the Cayman Islands
• Parallel fraud proceedings