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Recognized as one of the most effective BVI litigation teams, led by Paul Dennis KC, the firm adeptly handles an array of contentious commercial matters, including cross border disputes, arbitrations, insolvency, and probate litigation in trusts and estates. Working closely with the firm’s corporate, regulatory, and trusts and estate departments, attorneys offer comprehensive representation and proactive counsel on legal effects and ramifications of commercial and estate transactions.


The firm has a long-standing track record of successful collaboration with foreign counsel in multi-jurisdictional litigation involving BVI individuals or companies. Attorneys appear before courts of first instance, arbitration panels, and appellate courts, and represent clients up to the level of the Judicial Committee of the Privy Council in London—the BVI’s highest appellate court.


Experience includes distressed funds, debt restructuring and rescheduling, schemes of arrangement, asset tracing and recovery action, fund liquidation, and appointment and removal of liquidators, receivers, and corporate trustees, as well as shareholder disputes, enforcement of banker’s securities, liquidations, cross-border asset recovery, interim asset preservation, and general business litigation. The team is frequently engaged before the BVI Commercial Court, an internationally recognized institution, established in 2009 to facilitate the speedy and efficient resolution of commercial cases in the BVI system.

Chambers Review

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Dispute Resolution - British Virgin Islands

4
Band 4

What the Team is Known For

O'Neal Webster is a respected local law firm with a robust dispute resolution practice. Its seasoned team of lawyers regularly receives high-profile litigation instructions from major international clients. Its team is highly experienced acting in major trust cases, as well as shareholder and insolvency proceedings.

Work Highlights

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  • O'Neal Webster successfully defended the Eastern Caribbean Central Bank, and its appointed conservators, in Privy Council proceedings concerning allegations of misconduct in the implementation of a resolution plan intended to stop the collapse of two offshore banks based in Anguilla.

Strengths

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Notable Practitioners

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Paul Dennis KC
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Paul Dennis KC
4
Band 4

Paul Dennis KC is one of the jurisdiction's most seasoned dispute resolution lawyers. He is well versed in financial services disputes as well as cases concerning trusts and estates. He is also regularly instructed as an advocate in proceedings elsewhere in the Caribbean.

Paul is a hugely experienced Caribbean silk.

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Dispute Resolution

Paul Dennis KC
4
Paul Dennis KC
4
Band 4

Members

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Asha Johnson-Willins

Nadine Whyte

Paul Dennis

Head of Department