Tax issues on stake sales and investment into managers: structuring, pitfalls and steps to take now
About
Barry has almost 40 years' experience in international disputes and investigations, involving banking, finance, financial services, fund and asset management, trusts, insolvency, fraud and financial crime.
Barry advises clients in large scale financial litigation as well as internal and regulatory investigations and proceedings. He has also acted as a Skilled Person in connection with numerous business critical regulatory reviews affecting financial institutions in both the UK and overseas.
Barry's representation of clients has included often complex, multi-jurisdiction disputes and investigations involving the co-ordination of proceedings, or the obtaining of evidence, abroad, as well as information requests from international courts, regulators and government agencies.
Experience
- Advising the British Bankers' Association and BBA LIBOR Limited since 2010 in relation to all investigations and litigation in the UK and the US in connection with the alleged manipulation of the US dollar LIBOR interest rate benchmark during the global financial crisis.
- Advising Firth Rixson in the landmark litigation with the administrators of Lehman Brothers International (Europe) concerning the payment obligations and events of default provisions of the ISDA Master Agreement, both at trial and in the Court of Appeal.
- Representing an Overseas Government in a $6.5bn arbitration involving finance raised by the Government's sovereign wealth fund through corporate bond issues.
- Taberna Europe CDO II plc v Roskilde Bank (Selskabet): representing Roskilde Bank of Denmark in its successful defence of this landmark mis-selling (subordinated debt) claim, both at trial and in the Court of Appeal.