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LAWYERS
RICHARD
SAVORY
B.Com.,
LL.B.
(University of Auckland)
Richard Savory is the founder and principal of
the firm. He holds degrees in law and commerce (major in accounting)
from the University of Auckland in New Zealand, and has specialised
in company and commercial law in Turks & Caicos since
1981. He is the current President of the Bar Council, having previously served in that office in the years 1988—1990, 1995—1999, and 2002—2003. He was appointed Acting Judge of the Supreme Court in May 1998, and in 1999 was made a Justice of the Peace and a Notary Public. He was an Elections Adjudicator in 1999, 2002 and 2003.
He is counsel to several of the major corporations
operating in Turks & Caicos, and has been involved
in several substantial financing and restructuring transactions.
He has had long involvement in commercial real
estate, including representation of the purchasers and developers
of major resort properties in Providenciales. He was responsible
for the bringing into force the present condominium legislation
and in 1984 registered the first condominium in Turks & Caicos.
He has had extensive experience of condominium documentation and
administration and first-hand involvement in issues relating to
developers and managers of condominium projects in the Islands and
elsewhere.
He has had wide experience of advocacy before the
Courts of Turks & Caicos, including acting as counsel
in major international liquidations and asset-tracing actions. He
is experienced in forensic financial investigations and, with his
accounting qualifications, is able to communicate on a technical
level with accountants and bookkeepers. He has appeared in the Court of Appeal in four cases (one involving the death penalty), and twice before the Privy Council in London (Kellar v. Williams [2000] 2 BCLC 390, (2000) 61 WIR 552, and [2004] UKPC 30). In every case judgment was in his client's favour.
Mr Savory has had a long and close association
with the drafting of TCI's financial services legislation: the Companies
Ordinance (including Limited Life Companies and Foundation-type
companies), the Banking Ordinance, the Insurance Ordinance,
the Trusts Ordinance, the Trustees (Licensing) Ordinance,
the Limited Partnerships Ordinance, the Company Managers
Ordinance, the Mutual Funds Ordinance, the Voluntary
Dispositions Ordinance, and the Proceeds of Crime Ordinance.
He participated in the drafting of the voluntary Code of Conduct
for the Financial Industry (1984). He was commissioned by the
TCI Bar Association to draft the Legal Profession Ordinance
and participated in drafting meetings leading to its enactment in
1997. He was also involved in the drafting of subsidiary legislation
under that Ordinance, including the Code of Professional Conduct.
He sat on the Law Revision Committee which was involved in the work
necessary for the publication a complete revised edition of the
laws of Turks and Caicos in 1998. He currently represents the Bar
Association on the executive of the Financial Industry Association.
Mr Savory incorporated the following organisations:
the Chamber of Commerce, the Financial Industry Association,
the Bankers Association of Turks & Caicos,
the Association of Licensed Trustees, the Turks & Caicos
Real Estate Association, TCI Contractors Association,
the TCI Education Foundation , and the Turks & Caicos Friends
of the Arts Foundation.
Authorships: Outline of the Turks & Caicos Islands as an International Offshore
Finance Centre (TCI 1989, 1991, 1993). Land
Purchase & Residence (Offshore Investment Magazine: "Close up: Turks & Caicos",
1988); Turks & Caicos
Trusts (Inner Temple Yearbook
1991/1992, London; Times of the Islands, Summer 1991); TCI: A Specialist Jurisdiction
(Times of the Islands, Winter 1994/95); Condominium
Law in the Turks and Caicos Islands (Times of the Islands, Winter 1997/98). Editor for Turks & Caicos, International Offshore
Finance Centres Manual (Commerce
Clearing House, 1990). Contributor to The
OFC Report 1992 and The
OFC Report 1995/96 (Ed. Milton Grundy); Offshore Trust Yearbook
1993 (International Money Marketing); The
International Offshore & Financial Centres Handbook 1993
(London Society of Chartered Accountants).
Memberships: Turks & Caicos Islands Bar Association. International Bar Association.
Past memberships: Financial Industry Liaison Committee. Financial Services Law Group. Trusts Technical Committee. Law Revision Committee. Financial Industry Association (Bar Association Representative).
Other positions: Founding member, President and Legal Counsel of the TCI Education Foundation. Member of the Board of Governors, British West Indies Collegiate. Founding member and former Treasurer of the Turks & Caicos Friends of the Arts Foundation. Treasurer of the Turks & Caicos Real Estate Association.
Areas of practice: Commercial law, companies, trusts, financial services, development, real estate, immigration and business establishment, commercial litigation.
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GUY CHAPMAN
B.A.(Auckland),
M.A. (Princeton),
M.A. (Oxford), Lincoln's Inn, London
Guy Chapman
was born in Auckland, New Zealand. He was first called to the
Bar in 1974 at Lincoln’s Inn, London; subsequently he was
admitted as a Barrister and a Solicitor in New Zealand, as a
Barrister in New South Wales, as a Lawyer in Papua New Guinea;
and as an Attorney in Turks & Caicos. After obtaining a
Bachelor of Arts at the University of Auckland in 1968,
Mr Chapman attended Princeton University in New Jersey,
U.S.A. where he obtained a Master of Arts degree in Politics,
1970); and then Oxford University, England, where he
read law and obtained a Masters of Arts degree in 1979. He was
also a Research student at the London School of Economics
from 1970 to 1971. He worked as a Barrister in London from 1974
to 1975, as Advisory Officer to Select Committees at New Zealand's
House of Representatives from 1975 to 1977, and as a Barrister
and Solicitor at Russell McVeagh, one of New Zealand's
premier law firms, where he was litigation partner for 20 years.
At the time of leaving New Zealand to join Savory & Co.,
he was the fourth senior partner in the firm.
He has practiced
over virtually the whole "common law" (or litigation)
field, and has appeared in courts at all levels and before a
wide range of tribunals and semi-judicial bodies, and in many
arbitrations (principally in the construction and engineering
fields, but also in commercial arbitrations). He has been involved
in extensive contract drafting, contract review work and advice,
contract dispute work, and in litigation and arbitrations concerning
contract matters and other issues, in particular in relation
to construction work, energy sector work, and work for public
bodies and utilities. He has been engaged in a full range of
commercial litigation and advisory work for numerous commercial
clients in New Zealand and the Pacific, including the Auckland
Harbour Board, Ports of Auckland Ltd, Auckland
Electric Power Board, Mercury Energy Ltd, Mobil
Oil New Zealand, Watercare Services, Coal Corporation
of New Zealand, Rarotongan Beach Resort, and Ishikawajima-Harima
Heavy Industries Co. Ltd, the Government of Western Samoa,
and the Provincial Government of the North Solomon Islands.
Whilst employed at the Legislative Department, House of
Representatives, Wellington, New Zealand, was engaged in reviewing and revising Bills, and
in advisory work. When in private practice in New Zealand, was involved in making numerous
submissions to Select Committees, and was also involved, for public bodies, in drafting
Bills and in amending provisions, and in advising on legislative matters for numerous
clients.
Mr Chapman has appeared before numerous courts and tribunals in
England, including Magistrate’s Courts, County Courts, Crown Courts, the Central
Criminal Court (the Old Bailey), the High Court (including the Commercial Court), the
Court of Appeal, and once, as a junior, before the House of Lords. In New Zealand he
appeared at all levels, including before the Judicial Committee of the Privy Council (in
London), before the Court of Appeal (on numerous occasions), the High Court and former
Supreme Court (again on numerous occasions), District Courts (and former Magistrate’s
Courts), various specialist courts and tribunals, commissions of inquiry and disciplinary
bodies. He also appeared before local and regional councils and council committees, as
well as before the Court of Appeal and High Court of the Cook Islands (on a number of
occasions), and before the Supreme Court and National Court of Papua New Guinea.
He has acted in numerous construction and engineering arbitrations,
principally in New Zealand, but also in Papua New Guinea, the Cook Islands, and Samoa, and
also in a number of rental and other commercial arbitrations.
Areas of Practice: Civil and commercial
litigation, arbitration, commercial and legislative drafting.
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MALCOLM WALLACE
LL.B.
(University of Canterbury)
Malcolm Wallace was born in Dunedin, New Zealand. He completed a Bachelor Laws at the University of Canterbury in 1986 and was admitted as a Barrister and Solicitor of the High Court of New Zealand in 1987. Before joining Savory & Co. in 2004, Malcolm was a partner in two New Zealand firms, most recently Wynn Williams & Co., one of the leading firms in the South Island of New Zealand.
Malcolm works in most areas of private practice, but in particular commercial and land transactions, securities enforcement and insolvency, town planning, and civil and commercial litigation. He is a contributing author to a New Zealand text on Equity and Trusts.
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DAVID BROWNBILL
LL.B.
Hons (University of Nottingham)
David Brownbill was born England in 1951. He became
a Solicitor in England and Wales in 1980, a Barrister at Gray's
Inn in 1989, and an Attorney in Turks and Caicos 1993, Islands.
He was the founder and is the editor of The Journal of International
Trust and Corporate Planning and is a member of the Council
of the Society of Trust and Estate Practitioners, serving
on its International and Technical Committees.
Areas of Practice: Revenue law; chancery;
trusts; company Law; offshore trust administration; international
estate planning.
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