Offshore Litigation Blog

After a long week’s work, it is always a pleasure to grab a pint of beer with your colleagues. It is no different at Harneys’ Hong Kong office, and in fact we go way beyond that to enjoy beers. We frequent popular craft beer joints around the city, have had beer tasting sessions with our business partners as networking events and internally as team events to strengthen the bonding among team members. Why? It is because our Counsel Sui Hung Yeung is a beer enthusiast, to the extent that he has been regularly acting as a beer judge and brewing his own beers at home. As you can tell, the team has been benefitting a lot from his passion for beer.

We recently had a chat with Natalie Lee, our newly promoted Counsel, during which she talked about her career in law, her journey with Harneys and more.

In the third episode of Contentious Crypto, Christopher Pease and Megan Elms, along with Kalo guest speaker James Drury, discuss how digital asset tracing operates in practice and some common obstacles that arise.

In this introductory episode, Christopher Pease and Megan Elms of Harneys in conjunction with James Drury of Kalo consider the basics of digital asset ownership and how crypto disputes tend to arise. This sets the groundwork for more in-depth discussions in this series, which include a look at the BVI’s first reported crypto recovery case (ChainSwap) where they will explore the mechanisms available for tracing digital assets, the use of mixers, how they can be overcome and the ways the courts are adapting to the challenges posed by the growth of disputes in the digital asset sector.

In this episode of our Take 10 podcast, Partner Peter Ferrer is joined by Counsel Kimberly Crabbe-Adams as she provides insights into her experience growing up in the British Virgin Islands, pursuing her career in law, and the importance of passion.

We would like to say a massive thank you to all of the runners who joined our virtual Fun Run on Monday 16 March in lieu of our annual INSOL 5KM run which was understandably cancelled this year. We received some great responses from around the world and are happy to have been able to provide a bit of positivity during what are most definitely challenging times.

In this episode of our Take 10 podcast, Ian Mann discusses whether a board of directors of a Cayman Islands company has the right to petition to wind up the company without shareholder approval, for restructuring or insolvency purposes.

In this episode of our Take 10 podcast, Ian Mann and Jayesh Chatlani discuss their experiences in the Privy Council, the final court of appeal for offshore Caribbean jurisdictions.

In this episode of our Take 10 podcast, Ian Mann discusses common law recognition and the case of Supreme Tycoon.