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.

• 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

• 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

Manchester University, LLB

London University, Queen Marys, LLM

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

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?”