Brian Lacy

Practice Areas

Banking Disputes, Corporate and Financial Services Disputes, Dispute Resolution, Enforcement of Judgments and Awards, Fraud and Asset Tracing, Funds Disputes, International Arbitration, Investigations and Regulatory Advice, Insolvency, Restructuring and Insolvency, Shareholder and Valuation Disputes, Trusts Advisory Group, Trusts Disputes

Career

Brian is the Head of BVI Dispute Resolution. He is a "formidable" 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.

Over the past decade, Brian has been involved in cases across the full range of BVI disputes, many of which have actively developed the law in new and positive ways. His areas of significant expertise include:

-Asset tracing / preservation and enforcement, often involving interim injunctive relief or the appointment of provisional liquidators or receivers

Civil fraud

Contentious trusts and probate

Commercial litigation

Restructuring and insolvency

Company and shareholder disputes

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.

Admitted as a barrister in:

2012 - British Virgin Islands

2006 – England & Wales (non-practicing)

Professional Memberships

RISA (BVI INSOL Chapter)

British Virgin Islands Bar Association

British Russian Law Association

British Ukrainian Law Association

British Kazakh Law Association

Hon. Society of Lincoln’s Inn (Scholarships: Lord Brougham; Harwicke; and Kennedy)

Chancery Bar Association

Publications

Co-author of the BVI chapter of The Arbitration Review of the Americas, 2015.

Co-author of the BVI chapter of The Dispute Resolution Review, 7th ed., 2014.

Co-author of the BVI chapter of The Arbitration Review of the Americas, 2014.

Co-author of Security for Costs and other Court Ordered Security, Jordans, 2010.

Contributor to Restrictive Covenants and Confidential Information, Brearly & Bloch, Butterworths, 3rd ed., 2009.