Wayne Atkinson, Partner and head of our Guernsey Financial Services and Regulatory team, will be speaking at the School of International Financial Services (SIFS) 2024 Directors Series of webinars on 10 April.
Based in Guernsey, Wayne works with a broad range of regulated entities and investment funds on fundraising, transaction and investment structuring, commercial contracts and mergers and acquisitions.
As one of the leaders of Collas Crill's Risk and Regulatory team, he also regularly advises businesses on regulatory compliance including money-laundering issues, listing rules requirements, competition law, data protection, ESG matters and Guernsey financial services regulation more generally.
He will be presenting on the subject of Understanding Directors' duties and the ramifications in Guernsey specifically, and will cover:
- The sources and extent of directors' duties in respect of Guernsey companies
- Areas of risk arising out of the duties
- How directors can best protect themselves against a claim of breach of duty
- Recent legal developments and caselaw impacting these areas both on and off Guernsey
Tailored to financial services directors, the SIFS 2024 Directors Series covers an array of pertinent topics and is suitable for all directors, non-executive directors and board members.
Each webinar provides one hour of CPD.
