Elizabeth Weaver and Stuart Adair are presenting at the Company Directors Behaving Badly: A Legal Update conference taking place on Thursday 5th October 2023 from 1.45pm until 5pm.
Elizabeth will be presenting on “Harming creditors: an update on fraudulent and wrongful trading and section 423” and Stuart’s session is entitled “Shareholder disputes and claims v directors in respect of foreign companies”.
This event deals with a new range of hot topics and new twists on perennial problems. The speakers will guide the audience through the key areas in a very practical way. The conference will be of relevance to company/commercial lawyers, insolvency lawyers and practitioners, accountants, in-house counsel, company secretaries and all others who need to be able to keep up to date and advise on the interrelated complexities of this very difficult area of work.
Topics to be covered:
– Shareholder disputes and claims v directors in respect of foreign companies
– The scope of a director’s obligation to account for any profits made out of a breach of duty
– Sequana revisited in the light of subsequent cases
– Disqualification of Directors -a damp squib or a real deterrent?
– Net zero lessons for directors as the dust settles after the ClientEarth case
– Misfeasance – the latest law and practice revisted
– The 7 Directors Duties: what happens when things go (very) wrong
– Harming creditors: an update on fraudulent and unfair trading and section 423
Speakers:
David Impey, Solicitor and Trainer
Stephen Allinson, Solicitor, past Chairman of the Insolvency Service
Rachel McCahill, Buckles
Richard Mendoza, Herbert Smith Freehills
Stuart Adair, XXIV Old Buildings
Nigel Dougherty, Erskine Chambers
Richard Ascroft, Guildhall Chambers
Elizabeth Weaver, XXIV Old Buildings
