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Ogier

Brian Lacy

St Helier, UK

Global Guide 2022

Ranked in 1 departments

Ranked in : Dispute Resolution

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Dispute Resolution - British Virgin Islands

Expertise Based Abroad in British Virgin Islands

Brian Lacy heads the BVI disputes practice, dividing his time between Jersey and the BVI. He has extensive experience in asset tracing and insolvency matters and leads much of the firm's standout work.
"He is incredibly knowledgeable and very affable." "Brian is a brilliant and terrific lawyer. He has fantastic client-handling skills, the whole package." "He's built an enormous international practice and attracts the trust and respect of his clients."

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Practice Areas

Dispute Resolution, Fraud and Asset Tracing, Funds Disputes, International Arbitration, Restructuring and Corporate Recovery, Shareholder and Valuation Disputes

Career

Brian is the Head of BVI Dispute Resolution. He is a "formiddable" commercial litigation barrister, with considerable experience of civil fraud, insolvency and trust disputes, and regularly appears in the BVI Commercial Court and the Court of Appeal.

Brian has particular expertise in asset tracing and preservation, especially in the context of civil fraud, trust and probate disputes and insolvency. His cases often involve interim injunctive relief or the appointment of liquidators or receivers and he is a director of Recovery and Insolvency Specialists Association (BVI) Limited, the BVI chapter of INSOL.

Brian's BVI law expertise also extends across the full range of Virgin Islands company and shareholder disputes and he successfully represented Microsoft in the first derivative permission claim to be considered by the ECSC Court of Appeal.

Brian joined Ogier as a Partner in 2015. He was previously a barrister with another leading firm in the BVI and before that he was a member of Littleton Chambers, Inner Temple, London.