Jerry D. Samuel

Experience Highlights

• Recently acted for minority shareholders who successfully brought a high value derivative action that found directors liable for breaches of various fiduciary and statutory duties in committing a fraud on the minority.
• Acted for a major South East Asian mining group in attempts to secure disclosure relief on an ex parte basis.
• Acted on numerous occasions for large financial institutions to enforce judgements and secure injunctive relief on an urgent ex parte basis.
• Acted for a German-listed company in the longest running Commercial Court trial experienced in the BVI concerning shareholder relief and unfair prejudice.

Professional Background

• Litigation Associate, Walkers, BVI

Education

• Cardiff Law School – Centre for Professional Legal Studies, Bar Vocational Course (2005)
• Cardiff University Law School, LLB (2004)
• Carleton University, M.A. (Hons) Political Economy (2000)
• Florida A&M University, B.S. (Hons) Business Economics (1995)

Bar Admissions

• Eastern Caribbean Supreme Court (Virgin Islands), 2005
• England & Wales, 2005 (not currently practicing)

Awards & Accolades

• Recognised in the 2021 edition (and since 2012) of Legal 500 Caribbean (dispute resolution)
• Recognised in the 2020 edition (and 2019) of Global Restructuring Review 100
• Recognised in the 2018 (and 2017) edition of Who’s Who Legal (asset recovery)

Associations

• Member, BVI Bar Association
• Member, Restructuring and Insolvency Specialists Association (BVI)
• Member, Chartered Institute of Arbitrators
• Member, Judicial and Legal Services Commission

Offshore Cases

Plugging the Arbitration Gap, Asian Legal Business, May 2014