XXIV Old Buildings - Leading Commercial / Chancery Barristers

Cross-border contentious and advisory work represents a defining aspect of XXIV Old Buildings’ practice. XXIV Old Buildings has a pre-eminent international and offshore practice covering a large number of jurisdictions.

The “premier offshore” set (Chambers and Partners), its members have demonstrable expertise in all the major offshore jurisdictions, including the Cayman Islands, the BVI, Bermuda, Gibraltar, Guernsey, Jersey, and Dubai. Members also have substantial experience of cross border issues in numerous onshore jurisdictions in Continental and Eastern Europe, the Russian Federation, Africa, China and North America.

With particularly strong connections to Dubai, members of XXIV Old Buildings have an established reputation in the Middle East for acting in litigation and arbitration within the commercial, construction, and banking and finance areas.

Corporate and commercial matters, trust related work and financial based cases are among the core pillars of the set’s offshore offering.

Many of our barristers are full members of, or have been called, ad hoc, to, the local Bars of these offshore centres. They have also assisted in drafting offshore legislation having been instructed by international Trust Law Reform Committees.

XXIV Old Buildings’ international presence is enhanced and supported by its highly effective office in Geneva.

Principal jurisdictions include:

  • Anguilla
  • The Bahamas
  • Bermuda
  • The British Virgin Islands
  • The Cayman Islands
  • Cyprus
  • Dubai
  • Gibraltar
  • Guernsey
  • Hong Kong
  • Isle of Man
  • Jersey
  • Singapore
  • The Turks & Caicos Islands

 

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“XXIV Old Buildings is at the forefront of offshore litigation, consistently demonstrating a cutting-edge approach to complex international legal disputes. ”

“an undoubted leader for the full range of Offshore matters ”

“XXIV Old Buildings remain a go to set of chambers for DIFC and UAE law work ”

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Notable International & Offshore Cases

Privy Council and Eastern Caribbean Court of Appeal matter concerning enforcement of oral wills in the BVI

This important judgment by the Cayman Court of Appeal is the first appellate decision to confirm the Grand Court’s jurisdictional power and scope to support injunctions in support of foreign arbitrations under section 54 of the Cayman Arbitration Act 2012.

Acting in a dispute concerning a Bahamian Trust which owns very valuable Hong Kong corporate assets, and which carries out its activity through companies in the BVI and Hong Kong.

Acting on behalf of c.700 beneficiaries of three Jersey-law trusts, who successfully recovered debt assets with a book value of over £410m. 

Acting for the Swiss bank in claim brought in Bermuda by the former prime minister of Georgia arising out frauds committed by a rogue employee.

An application to the DIFC Court of Appeal regarding a preliminary trial related to recoverability of loss and the status of foreign law in the DIFC. 

A DIFC claim filed by an Indian development finance institution against a Kuwaiti telecoms provider.

Multi-billion-dollar litigation in Bermuda challenging the validity of, and transfers, into five purpose trusts and the use of powers of addition and exclusion to destroy the substratum of a discretionary trust for the benefit of the family.

Acting in litigation concerning the assets of the late Robert Brockman who was, before his death, accused of the largest US tax fraud in history.

Acting for claimant beneficiaries in complex multi-jurisdictional trust litigation including claims in equitable mistake in the Cayman and the BVI to recover property from trustees.

International & Offshore Barristers

Elspeth Talbot Rice KC

Call 1990 | Silk 2008

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Michael Black KC

Call 1978 | Silk 1995

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Stephen Moverley Smith KC

Call 1985 | Silk 2002

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Francis Tregear KC

Call 1980 | Silk 2003

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David Brownbill KC

Call 1989 | Silk 2008

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Steven Thompson KC

Call 1996 | Silk 2015

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Lyndsey de Mestre KC

Call 1999 | Silk 2018

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Edward Cumming KC

Call 2006 | Silk 2018

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Adam Cloherty KC

Call 2005 | Silk 2023

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Oliver Assersohn KC

Call 2003 | Silk 2024

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Michael King

Call 1971

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Helen Galley

Call 1987

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Ian Meakin

Call 1991

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Stuart Adair

Call 1995

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Bajul Shah

Call 1996

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Steven Reed

Call 2005

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Owen Curry

Call 2009

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Hugh Miall

Call 2009

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Max Archer

Call 2014

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Ben Waistell

Call 2015

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Alex Peplow

Call 2019

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James Kane

Call 2021

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Niamh Davis

Call 2022

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Tim Koch

Call 2022

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