Christian Luthi

Lawyer information

Practice Areas

Bermuda Litigation & Restructuring

Corporate

Insurance & Reinsurance

Litigation & Restructuring

Private Client & Trust

Career

Christian Luthi is a Director and Chairman of Conyers Dill & Pearman. He joined the firm’s Bermuda office in 1994, in the Litigation & Restructuring Department.

Christian has extensive experience in dispute resolution involving litigation in the Bermuda courts and arbitration. His practice encompasses a wide range of areas including company law, particularly share valuation and appraisal matters, shareholder disputes, insolvency and restructuring matters, insurance, and other commercial matters. He also has significant experience in international family law, trust disputes and complex regulatory and compliance matters.

Christian is a regular speaker at international conferences and also established the Offshore Case Digest, which offers readers high-level summaries of major cases decided in Bermuda, the British Virgin Islands and the Cayman Islands. Conyers is the only offshore law firm offering coverage of cases in these jurisdictions; our public database holds over 300 case summaries.

Christian is recognised in Chambers Global and The Legal 500.

Professional Memberships

Bermuda Bar Council 2007-2011

Chairman, Bermuda Media Council

Chairman, Bar Committee on Continuing Legal Education

Banks and Deposit Companies Appeals Tribunal

Honorary Secretary, Chartered Institute of Arbitrators, Bermuda Branch

Chairman, Mental Health Review Tribunal Deputy

Member, Law Reform Sub Committee on Matrimonial Law

Member, Middle Temple

Member, Chartered Institute of Arbitrators

Member, London Court of International Arbitration

Member, ARIAS US

Publications

Insurance Bulletin Spring 2021

Corporate Digest: Notable Deals and Transactions – Winter 2020

Offshore Cases

Corporate Digest: Notable Deals and Transactions – Spring 2019

Co-author of Bermuda chapter in The Insurance and Reinsurance Law Review, 3rd Edition, 2015, Editor: Peter Rogan

Work Highlights

Insolvency and Restructuring:

In re Opus Offshore Limited [SC Comm (Bda)] [2017] SC (Bda) 14 Com

In re Up Energy Development Group Ltd [SC Comm (Bda)] [2016] SC (Bda) 83 Com and [2016] SC (Bda) 89 Com [2016] Bda LR 101

Re Dominion Petroleum Ltd [2012] Bda LR 8

Pulido v UST Holdings Ltd & Ors [SC Comm (Bda)] 2015 [2015] SC (Bda) 67 Com

Merger Valuation and Appraisal Cases:

MFP-2000, LP v Viking Capital Ltd and Misa Investments Ltd [2014] Bda LR 6

Mehta v Viking River Cruises Ltd [SC Comm (Bda)] [2014] SC (Bda) 86 Com

Golar LNG Ltd v World Nordic SE [2012] Bda LR 2

Artha Master Fund, LLC v Dufry South America [2011] Bda LR 17

Validus Holdings Ltd v IPC Holdings Ltd and others 2009

Amalgamation of reinsurance companies — Validity of provisions of amalgamation agreement – Offer for shares – Application for expedited trial [2009] Bda LR 28

Validus Holdings Ltd v IPC Holdings Ltd and Max Capital Group Ltd [2009] Bda LR 30

Trusts and Family Wealth:

S v S [SC Div (Bda)] [2015] SC (Bda) 43 Div

Trustee 1 & Ors v Attorney General & Ors [SC Comm (Bda)] [2014] Bda LR 19

Awards