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Tim Prudhoe

Tim Prudhoe

tim@spcaribbean.com

Trained at the English Bar, Tim has been in practice as a court advocate across the Caribbean for over twenty years. His blend of both onshore and offshore work offers clients of the firm a unique perspective. He has deep experience in the strategic aspects of preparing for, running, winning and sometimes simply avoiding “bet-the-company” disputes.

As part of the firm’s leadership, he understands the need to deliver a commercial approach to busy co-counsel and end-user clients.

Tim has given expert evidence many times in a wide range of onshore jurisdictions on corporate insolvency issues, directors’ duties, confidentiality legislation and judgment enforcement.

Select Engagements
  • Judicial review of suspension of passports granted to economic citizens, including damages claim for resulting loss of business due to impeded travel
  • Receivership and trustee advice in the context of judicial dissolution of a Nevis entity as migrated from elsewhere and facing possible judgment enforcement issues from onshore proceedings
  • Anti-suit proceedings in the insolvency context
  • Russian sanctions, advising in respect of applicability and effect of same in the context of a finance structuring involving a share pledge in favour of a sanctioned lender; British Virgin Islands and several onshore jurisdictions involved
  • Constitutional claims on behalf of same-sex couple seeking immigration recognition in the Turks & Caicos Islands
  • Judicial review of banking regulators of St. Kitts & Nevis and related civil claims resulting from regulatory steps taken against a bank
  • Habeas corpus proceedings arising from unlawful detention during the COVID-19 pandemic
  • Defending proceedings in the British Virgin Islands Commercial Court against an investment fund for misrepresentation and unfair prejudice of shareholders
  • Defending registered status of bank security in respect of valuable beachfront and counterclaims for declaratory relief on the basis of proprietary estoppel (“monies-had-and-received”)
  • Insolvency proceedings for liquidators variously in the British Virgin Islands, Trinidad & Tobago, Dubai DIFC (on behalf of British Virgin Islands’ liquidator)
  • Proceedings brought by beneficiaries relating to discretionary trust (Monaco and Hong Kong)
  • Defending proceedings in the Turks & Caicos Islands brought by the trustee against a beneficiary in respect of disclosure for onshore proceedings
  • Expert witness (including deposition and court evidence) in various onshore proceedings
Credentials
  • Anguilla
  • Belize
  • Bermuda
  • British Virgin Islands
  • Dubai, DIFC
  • England & Wales
  • Gibraltar
  • Grenada
  • Jamaica
  • Montserrat
  • St. Kitts & Nevis
  • St. Vincent & the Grenadines
  • Trinidad & Tobago
  • Turks & Caicos Islands
Education

Manchester University, LLB

London University, Queen Marys, LLM

Eugene Dupuch Law School, The Bahamas, Legal Education Certificate (from the Council of Legal Education)

Professional & Community Involvement

Commonwealth Lawyers Association

INSOL

COMBAR

Chancery Bar Association

Chartered Institute of Arbitrators, Fellow

Company Law Advisory Committee, Turks & Caicos Islands

OECS Bar Association

Recent writing and speaking engagements:

March 2023 – Gore Browen on Companies, Special Release: “Stanger than fiction: the FTX cross-border insolvency saga”

March 2023 – Commonwealth Law Conference (Commonwealth Lawyers Association), Goa, India: “Refugee rights after COVI – do they still exist?” 

 

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