Alex Horsbrugh-Porter

Practice Areas

Dispute Resolution | Corporate and Financial Services Disputes | Enforcement of Judgments and Awards | Fraud and Asset Tracing | Funds Disputes | Regulatory, Investigations and Enforcement | Restructuring and Insolvency | Shareholder and Valuation Disputes | Trusts Disputes and Applications

Career

Alex is a partner in Ogier's multi-disciplinary Restructuring and Insolvency team and Trust Advisory Group, specialising in contentious insolvency procedures and shareholder applications. He has more than 20 years of experience in general commercial disputes involving financial services businesses and Guernsey trusts, as well as regulatory disputes. He also has experience in member and creditor schemes of arrangement.

He regularly appears before the Royal Court of Guernsey as an advocate on complex insolvency and restructuring matters as well as commercial, regulatory and trust disputes. Previously a director of a local firm of insolvency practitioners, Alex is able to provide a unique insight into the challenges faced by insolvency practitioners. This prior experience enables Alex to provide practical and first-hand knowledge and advice. He is also one of four committee members advising the States of Guernsey on the implementation of the rules which will support the amendments to the Companies Law.

Alex's recent achievements include leading on one of the first provisional liquidations in Guernsey; placing the Mitco group of property owning companies into administration; advising a trustee in relation to a recognition application brought by a UK trustee in bankruptcy; leading on a just and equitable winding up application involving a high profile Indian family; and successfully removing a trustee in contentious removal proceedings.

Alex also has experience of advising boards of directors on their common law, fiduciary and statutory duties and obligations and methods by which liabilities can be avoided or minimised, especially when those directors are faced with insolvency proceedings.

Admitted in: 2014 - Guernsey | 2004 - Cayman | 1998 - England and Wales

Professional Memberships

Alex was a founding director of the Association of Restructuring and Insolvency Experts (ARIES), the Channel Islands chapter of INSOL. He is also a member of R3 and INSOL International, and is a fellow of the Insolvency Practitioners Association.