Expertise
Regulatory and financial services disputes
Advice informed by experience of financial institutions, funds and multi-jurisdictional regulatory issues.
Experience and approach
Alexander advises financial institutions, funds, companies, directors and individuals on disputes and investigations involving governance, reporting, fiduciary obligations and financial-services regulation. His experience includes matters with parallel US and offshore dimensions, production and disclosure issues, and allegations engaging anti-money-laundering, proceeds-of-crime or bribery regimes. He does not practise US law, but his NYU corporate-law studies and New York practice experience assist collaboration with US legal teams.
Issues that may require specialist counsel
When this expertise may be relevant.
- A financial institution, fund or director faces a regulatory dispute
- Civil proceedings overlap with an investigation or overseas process
- Corporate governance, reporting or fiduciary obligations are contested
- Production, disclosure or information orders require urgent advice
Selected work
- 01Financial services disputes
- 02Fund and investor issues
- 03Regulatory investigations
- 04Production and disclosure orders
- 05Corporate and securities issues
- 06Overseas regulatory coordination
Representative matters
Selected experience in regulatory and financial services disputes.
Three Arrows Capital — BVI cross-border insolvency proceedings
BVI Commercial Court proceedings (2024)
Junior counsel instructed by Ogier in the BVI and Latham & Watkins in New York
Alexander was instructed as junior counsel by Ogier in the BVI and Latham & Watkins in New York in substantial cross-border insolvency proceedings arising from the collapse of Three Arrows Capital. The engagement concerned preference claims valued in the hundreds of millions of US dollars and required expert consideration of BVI insolvency law alongside Chapter 15 proceedings in New York and New Jersey.
Read the matter summary →FCI Markets Inc (in liquidation)
BVI and DIFC proceedings
Sole counsel for the provisional liquidator and subsequently the liquidator
Alexander acted as sole counsel for the provisional liquidator and subsequently the liquidator in proceedings concerning an alleged US$300 million Ponzi scheme operated from Dubai. The work involved recovery efforts for victims, BVI provisional-liquidation and liquidation proceedings, and recognition of the BVI liquidation by the DIFC Court, demonstrating cross-border office-holder representation and fraud-recovery experience.
Read the matter summary →QVT Fund V LP v China Zenix Auto International Group Ltd
BVIHC (COM) 0026 of 2014 (24 January 2017)
Counsel with Tim de Swardt for the second to fourth defendants
Judge: Commercial Court Judge (the published judgment does not identify the judicial author by name)
Alexander acted for a leading Chinese industrialist in BVI unfair-prejudice proceedings brought by an American hedge fund concerning China Zenix Auto International Group and claims exceeding £50 million. The litigation involved company control, minority-shareholder rights, investment-fund interests and the governance of a substantial international industrial business, demonstrating experience of offshore company litigation and multinational legal-team coordination.
Read the case and Alexander's role →Makki v Bank of Beirut SAL
[2022] EWHC 733 (Ch); [2022] EWHC 1206 (Ch)
Counsel for Bank of Beirut SAL in the substantive statutory-demand hearing, instructed by Howard Kennedy LLP
Judge: Deputy Insolvency and Companies Court Judge Greenwood
Alexander represented Bank of Beirut SAL in High Court proceedings concerning an application to set aside a statutory demand based on an English costs debt of approximately £205,000. The applicant relied on a counterclaim, set-off or cross-demand exceeding US$1.1 million being pursued in Lebanon. The case required consideration of mutuality, time limits, foreign proceedings and whether the Lebanese claim raised a genuine triable issue.
Read the case and Alexander's role →Wider regulatory experience
Contentious advice across financial institutions, funds and investigations.
Alexander's wider regulatory experience includes advising financial institutions, funds, companies, directors and individuals on corporate governance, reporting obligations, internal and regulatory investigations, production and disclosure issues, anti-money-laundering and proceeds-of-crime questions, and matters with parallel offshore or United States dimensions. His previous New York and offshore practice assists collaboration with international legal teams, although he does not practise US law.
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