This page is part of the  Issue: June 2006
 Conferences sponsored
Alternative Investment Management Association
Staff Changes
Conferences sponsored
We were a Gold Sponsor of the GAIM Cayman hedge fund conference. In recognition of the Cayman Island's status as a leading financial centre for sophisticated investors and the hedge fund industry, GAIM, the world's premier and most comprehensive global alternative investment event provider, launched the inaugural GAIM Cayman conference on April 30th - May 3rd, 2006. The event was amongst the first major international conferences to be hosted at the new Ritz Carlton Hotel in Grand Cayman.
The event was a tremendous success with over 400 delegates from more than 15 countries. The focus of the conference was operational risk and Campbells’ partner Ross McDonough spoke at a panel session dealing with hedge fund “blow ups”.
GAIM is already planning the next GAIM Cayman conference which will be in May 2007.
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Alternative Investment Management Association (“AIMA”)
(www.aima.org)
Founded in 1990, the Association represents the global alternative investment community and provides a centre of knowledge for professional investment practitioners.
Spanning 46 countries on five continents, AIMA’s corporate members enable the Association to create global tools for the benefit of its members, institutional investors and regulators. Addressing the real issues effecting the industry’s development, the Association provides a centre of knowledge for professional investment practitioners.
A Cayman Islands Chapter of AIMA is being established and Campbells is pleased to both be a part of the organization and to be involved in the creation of the new Chapter.
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Staff Changes
Litigation attorney Martin Jones and corporate and trust attorney Brendan Carr have left the firm. They both plan to travel for a period of time before settling down.
Martin Jones has been replaced with barrister Kirsten Houghton. Kirsten graduated from St. John's College, Cambridge with a BA Honours degree in law. Subsequently, she practised at the Bar in London for over 15 years in two leading sets of commercial Chambers, appearing regularly as an advocate in the High Court and Court of Appeal.
Kirsten's practice and experience covers a wide range of commercial disputes. In addition to commercial contractual and tortious matters, she has particular expertise in insurance and reinsurance, company and shareholder disputes, construction and property related matters, information technology, pre-emptive remedies including freezing orders, search orders and enforcement of employees' restrictive covenants, data protection and freedom of information and all aspects of commercial professional negligence.
More recently, Kirsten has qualified as a Fellow of the Chartered Institute of Arbitrators, and become a chartered arbitrator. In 2004, she won the Chartered Institute of Arbitrators' President's Prize for arbitration award writing. She is an experienced mediator and construction industry adjudicator and a member of the Nominet UK panel of experts for deciding .co.uk cybersquatting disputes.
Kirsten studied insurance law as part of her degree and has a particular interest in this area of the law. She was heavily involved in the “Lloyd's litigation” in the 1990's, acting for underwriters and members' agents in the Commercial Court and in the Lloyd's Arbitration Scheme. She has acted in numerous policy interpretation and coverage disputes, and has also acted for and against brokers alleged to have acted in breach of instructions or negligently.
Kirsten has advised and represented corporate and private clients in connection with disputes concerning breach of director's duties, breach of warranty of authority, minority shareholder applications, breach of share sale agreements (warranties and restrictive covenants) and exercise of shareholders' rights of pre-emption and transfer.
Brendan is being replaced with an experienced attorney from a major London law firm who is expected to join Campbells in early June.
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