Events & Seminars

With the Control of Housing and Work (Jersey) Law 2012 now expected to come into force on 1 July 2013, we're delighted to invite you to our rescheduled seminars, providing the most up to date information and practical advice on this new legislation.

Mourant Ozannes is proud to be a sponsor at the Asia-Pacific In-House Counsel Summit 2013 to be held at the Kowloon Shangri-la Hotel in Hong Kong, May 14-15, 2013.

Partners Alex Last and Shaun Folpp will be speaking at the AIMA-Japan Seminar on Friday 10 May 2013 at White & Case LLP, Tokyo.

Please join us for a seminar at which Ben Robins and Alex Last, partners at Mourant Ozannes, will discuss the implications of the Alternative Investment Fund Managers Directive for managers of offshore funds looking to access investors in Europe. 

Mourant Ozannes and IBC have been working closely to bring you this unique outlook on the current state of play in the industry in advising the super-rich. 

Mourant Ozannes and IBC's International Trusts and Private Client forum will provide a guide to what practitioners need to know to continue to service, grow and protect their UHNW client base in 2013 and beyond.

Jersey Construction Council Winter seminar series continues.

Mourant Ozannes is once again delighted to be sponsoring Legal Week's annual Trust & Estates Litigation Forum in Provence.

Hong Kong Partner Alex Last has been invited to participate at the HFMWeek Operational Leaders Summit Asia in Macau on February 26, 2013.

Mourant Ozannes are pleased to present the IOD Winter Seminar Programme. This is the third in a series of useful, business focussed, seminars presented by the IOD and covers topics relating to the increase in the number of high profile business failures where businesses may have operated strategies which were long obsolete or where the pressures of cost reduction have led to catastrophic failures in the supply chain.

The Jersey Construction Council has launched its 2013 Winter Seminar Series in conjunction with Mourant Ozannes. Tickets are now available for the first seminar taking place on Thursday 21 February at the Radisson Blu Hotel.

Mourant Ozannes' employment team is pleased to present an employer's guide to the thorny issue of employee retirement.

Featuring SEC enforcement cases against fund managers, directors and service providers.

The Youth Speaks competition will take place at St James on Tuesday 29 January at 6pm. Anyone who is interested in the competition is welcome to join the audience on the night, entry is free of charge.

Mourant Ozannes are pleased to present the IOD Winter Seminar Programme. This is the second in a series of useful, business focussed, seminars presented by the IOD and covers topics relating to risks with information and information systems and features a panel of experts including Patrick Rice, Chief Officer of Guernsey Police, Iain Ainslie, an underwriter from ACE European Group and Carl Ceillam, Director of The Chain Limited, a local IT security and computer forensics business.

On 30 November 2012, Directors, business leaders, managers and HR professionals will join the CIPD Guernsey Branch and a top class panel of industry experts, including Mourant Ozannes' Head of Employment Jessica Roland, to discuss the subject of employee engagement, and why it has never been more important to engage your workforce and maximise productivity.

Mourant Ozannes Partner John Rainer will discuss the main features of the new regime for taking security interests introduced by the Security Interests (Jersey) Law 2012 at the latest autumn 2012 CPD event, hosted by the Institute of Law.

Mourant Ozannes is hosting an update on the highly topical Weavering  decision.

For more than 800 years the Bailiwicks of Jersey and Guernsey have been separate entities, with their own courts of law, legislatures and governments. Increasingly, however, Channel Islanders have realized that their future would be more secure if they co-operated more often and more deeply.

The International Financial Centres (IFC) Forum is hosting a high-level policy conference to examine the role of financial intermediation and international financial centres in the global economy, particularly as respects the impact on growth and jobs in the developed world.

The Cayman Alternative Investment Summit (Cayman A.I Summit) aims to develop a new narrative for the alternative investment industry on what it stands for and what it can deliver in the post-crisis world. The financial crisis is also an opportunity to create a more vibrant industry. This summit will bring together leaders and visionaries from around the world to address economic challenges that affect the alternative investment industry.

This years annual CPD Conference of The Jersey Society of Chartered and Certified Accountants will take place at the Hotel de France on Thursday 18 and Friday 19 October. Mourant Ozannes partner Simon Gould and Managing Associate Matthew Shaxson will be presenting a session on Legal Developments in Jersey.

A key fixture in the Island's sporting calendar, the Standard Chartered Jersey Marathon has become a terrific community event, helping to raise money for many good causes as well as being a great day out for runners and spectators. Mourant Ozannes are proud to once again be sponsors of the Relay Race.

Following the success of last year's event, Mourant Ozannes will hold their second International Trusts & Private Client conference on Friday 5 October 2012 at the Ritz-Carlton hotel in Grand Cayman.

Mourant Ozannes and Kinetic Partners present a joint seminar providing topical insight on the current pressures faced by the trust sector and current trends in offshore M&A.

The Competition Law, Guernsey came into force on 1 August 2012. The law will have an impact on all aspects of business in Guernsey from commercial agreements to mergers and acquisitions. Our seminar will provide you with all the information you need to be prepared for this significant change in law. The focus of the seminar will be on practical examples and application - not just the theory.

Simon has extensive offshore experience and knowledge in the corporate jet and helicopter financing industry. He will be providing an offshore perspective on business jet financing, highlighting some of the benefits of structuring acquisitions offshore and measures to promote lender protection.

Ten swimmers from leading offshore law firm Mourant Ozannes, together with Jersey triathletes Daniel Halksworth and James Briggs, will be taking on an exhausting challenge this weekend as they attempt to swim between Jersey and Guernsey, in opposite directions.

Hosted by Mourant Ozannes and sponsored by Savills, speakers will examine the key drivers behind these market dynamics, along with other issues such as secondary properties, existing loans, CMBS and development finance. The panel will also cover the commercial and prime residential UK markets in particular addressing the impact of recent government policy.

Now in its 10th year, this event is the market leader and attracts over 200 senior mezzanine/leveraged finance professionals & investors from all over Europe.  Mourant Ozannes partner Joel Hernandez will be amongst the panel of speakers, for further information and details of the conference programme click here

Mourant Ozannes and Kinetic Partners present a joint seminar providing topical insight on the current pressures faced by the trust sector and current trends in offshore M&A.

The seminar is free of charge and will be held at the Hotel de France on Wednesday 2 May from 4pm - 6.30pm.

For more information please email emma.pallot@mourantozannes.com

Private equity backed companies have done much to justify the industry's approach to continuing market turbulence. By demonstrating a level of flexibility and responsiveness not shown by listed corporates these companies and their private equity sponsors should feel cautiously confident when looking to their futures. Deal flow seems to be increasing with many transactions deploying novel structuring and increased levels of equity. Raising debt for new deals, however, remains stubbornly difficult. Mourant Ozannes Funds partners Ben Robins and Gavin Farrell will both be speaking at this years Legal Week Private Equity Forum at the St Pancras Renaissance Hotel on Wednesday 25 April. For further details including the conference programme click here.

The future of Guernsey as a strong offshore centre looks bright with the recent news that the Guernsey Financial Services Commission (GFSC) signed a statement of cooperation with the China Banking Regulatory Commission. Mourant Ozannes Managing Partner Robert Shepherd and partners St John Robilliard and Christopher Edwards will be among leading minds in and out of Guernsey to bring you the state of play in the industry. Click here for more information and to register

The Mourant Ozannes employment law team, in association with CIPD, are delighted to present another popular interactive 'mock proceedings'. Following on from the success of our 'sliding doors' session last year, we will once again be exploring the ups and downs and dos and don'ts of internal procedures and tribunal proceedings.

Litigation involving investment funds has developed exponentially across the globe since 2008. Whether as a result of the fraud perpetrated by Madoff, the failings of fund (such as Weavering) directors or the overall economic meltdown, investors have found themselves holding shares that may variously be gated, suspended or sometimes worthless. Whilst much of this litigation has taken place onshore (primarily in the US), the offshore world has been at the forefront. The Funds Litigation Forum will examine the issues presently being thrashed out by the Courts, how regulators have responded to the crisis and what the industry thinks lies ahead. Event enquiries: legalweekconference@incisivemedia.com

Jersey is the world's top offshore financial centre, according to the Global Financial Centres Index (GFCI). However, practitioners should not rest easy as there has been an increase in trust disputes and a greater emphasis on anti avoidance from government.  Mourant Ozannes partners Jonathan Speck, Morven McMillan, Bruce Lincoln and Giles Corbin will all be among the list of guest speakers for the largest Trusts event in Jersey at The Grand Hotel on 22 March.  Click here for details of the programme and to register.

As well as co-sponsors, Mourant Ozannes Guernsey partner Jeremy Wessels is amongst the list of expert speakers at the sixth annual Trust & Estates Litigation Forum in Provence. Click here for more information on the conference programme and to register.

Mourant Ozannes, in association with Shearman & Sterling present a seminar on Regulations/SEC Enforcement from 2-5pm at The Western, Grand Cayman. For further information email:nancy.kirkaldybarnard@mourantozannes.com

Russian issuers have led the way in 2011 in London IPOs, raising almost $2 billion USD through the first four months of the year and surpassing the total of $1.73 billion for all of 2010. Significantly, three of the recent IPOs (Nomos, Rosagro and Etalon) were from companies operating in sectors which were hit hard by the global financial crisis – banking, agribusiness and real estate development.

At this year’s conference, participants will look at how IPOs have priced in 2011 and hear about what criteria investors are focused on this year and learn about what other companies have done to secure the best valuation and IPO price performance in today’s markets.

Mourant Ozannes Partner James Hill will be speaking on day 2 of the conference, which is being held at the London Stock Exchange.  For further information click here.

The New York State Bar Association and The Society of Trust and Estate Practitioners USA (STEP) present the 7th Annual International Estate Planning Institute on 24 & 25 March 2011 at the Mariott Marquis in New York City. Mourant Ozannes partner and trust litigation specialist Jonathan Speck will be speaking on day one on International Trust and Asset Protection Litigation. For further information click here.

This seminar will discuss how the proposals will work in practical terms, what their goals are, the potential impact and whether there are wider elements to be included in the debate, notably the control of ownership. Peter Ferbrache, Senior Partner, will chair this event and give his forthright views, St John Robilliard, Partner, will then consider the possible implications on the various sections of the community covered by the current housing control legislation and finally Wendy Lambert, head of property in Jersey, will offer a different perspective, analysing the strengths and weaknesses of solutions in place in Jersey, and the effects on prosperous immigrants and employees.