Offshore law firm Mourant Ozannes is hosting a seminar on Securities and Exchange Commission Enforcement and US Derivative Actions against Cayman Hedge Funds on Friday, 10 February at the Westin Casuarina Resort from 2pm to 5pm.
The seminar, titled Facing Down the Big Challenge, will be held in collaboration with international law firm Shearman & Sterling.
Mourant Ozannes litigation partner Hector Robinson and senior associate Tim Richards will discuss US derivative actions against Cayman hedge funds, and Shearman & Sterling Partner Adam Hakki together with colleague Lindi Beaudreault, will address SEC cases against hedge fund managers with offshore funds.
The seminar will cover issues ranging from insider trading cases, Ponzi schemes and SEC Division of Enforcement programme priorities, such as its aberrational performance inquiry, cases involving misrepresentations to investors, cases involving private investments in public equity and those involving side pocket valuations.
In addition, the seminar will discuss SEC litigation in which offshore funds have been named as relief defendants, forum contests in which SEC receivers have vied with Cayman liquidators over control of fund assets and signs of legal risk in offshore funds.
Mr. Hakki, a visiting speaker, has extensive experience representing clients in complex securities class action and shareholder litigation, as well as civil and criminal investigations and cases brought by the US Department of Justice, Securities and Exchange Commission, Commodities Futures Trading Commission, and state attorneys general, concerning disclosure, securities and insider trading, derivatives, commodities, financial products, financial reporting, accounting, ERISA, conflicts of interest, and major corporate transactions.
Ms Beaudreault, who was once a senior counsel in the SEC’s Division of Enforcement, has vast experience defending clients in complex government and SRO investigations and proceedings pertaining to securities, commodities, financial products, financial reporting, broker-dealers and hedge funds.
Mr. Robinson of Mourant Ozannes has appeared in a number of complex, high value and precedent setting cases many of them reported in the law reports. Co-speaker Tim Richards has extensive experience with cases involving international banks, asset managers, hedge funds and public sector corporations.
The complimentary seminar attendance is by invitation only and space is limited. To enquire about space availability contact: Nancy Kirkaldy-Barnard at Mourant Ozannes at 814-6333 or [email protected]
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