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Our BVI office was established in 2013 and our experienced team has an in-depth knowledge of BVI's law and regulation that spans two decades.

We offer our clients the full range of legal advice regarding corporate and finance, investment funds, dispute resolution, insolvency, and trusts and private wealth. We have the international experience to provide accurate, efficient legal services for all transactions involving the BVI, including where BVI entities form part of a wider multi-jurisdictional structure. We also provide clients with access to BVI company management services through our affiliate CO Services.

We work alongside all the major international law firms, accountancy firms and insolvency practitioners and our clients include global financial institutions, investment funds, private equity houses, multi-national corporations, sovereign wealth funds, high net worth individuals, family offices, directors, trustees and private clients.

We also have BVI-qualified lawyers in our Hong Kong, Singapore, London and Cape Town offices ensuring we are able to provide BVI legal advice across all time zones.

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Dispute Resolution - British Virgin Islands

2
Band 2

What the Team is Known For

Carey Olsen's BVI office houses a strong dispute resolution team, with highly experienced partners supported by a deep bench of capable associates. It handles a variety of high-value trust litigation, insolvency proceedings and general commercial cases, including shareholder disputes. Its expertise extends to fraud claims as well as the enforcement of arbitral awards and overseas court judgments.

Work Highlights

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  • Carey Olsen acted for Luxembourg-based fund manager Von der Heydt in a major fraud case against entities in the Multibank Group (and the group's chairman), successfully obtaining a worldwide freezing order.

Strengths

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They handle complexity well.

Dispute Resolution respondent
Global

Carey Olsen are a terrific team of advocates; they are eminently capable of handling complex cross-border litigation and insolvency matters.

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Global

They have built up a really great collection of talented litigators through lateral hires. They built their litigation team by getting the best litigators already on the island.

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Global

Notable Practitioners

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Alex Hall Taylor
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Alex Hall Taylor
Head of Dispute Resolution
1
Band 1

Alex Hall Taylor KC is well established as a leader in the market. He has wide-ranging experience covering all aspects of company, fraud and insolvency disputes, and is consistently agreed to be one of the most capable advocates in the BVI.

Alex is unquestionably the best litigation lawyer in the BVI, at both first instance and appellate levels. Clients feel comfortable with him and he can be relied on to deliver the best outcome.

Alex is a first-rate advocate.

Alex is the complete package. He has great leadership and advocacy skills.

Alex is well aware of the possible outcomes of any piece of litigation and the best ways of achieving a good result for the client.

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Simon Hall
5
Simon Hall
5
Band 5

Simon Hall is well reputed for his expertise in litigation. He regularly handles shareholder disputes, as well as fraud, asset tracing and contentious trust matters.

Simon is very strong on the law. He is an astute junior partner and is commercially minded.

Simon is a terrific solicitor and provides insightful, timely advice.

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Alex Hall Taylor KC
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Alex Hall Taylor KC
Head of Dispute Resolution
1
Band 1
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Simon Hall
5
Simon Hall
5
Band 5
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Members

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Alex Hall Taylor

Alex Hall Taylor

Head of Department

Bernadette Carey

Catherine O'Connell

Christopher McCarthy

Courtney Blampied

Dean Robson

Graham Stoute

Richard Brown

Roxanne Ronan

Sara Malik

Sean Kinney

Tim Wright

Tyrone Bailey