Quentin Bregg
Senior Associate | Guernsey
Insolvency and Corporate Disputes
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Quentin Bregg is a standout individual, very capable indeed.
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Quentin Bregg – fantastic advocate.
Overview
Quentin is a Senior Associate in our Insolvency and Corporate Disputes team and is based in Guernsey.
Quentin specialises in complex commercial litigation with a focus on financial services, insolvency, and regulatory disputes. During his time at Collas Crill, he completed a secondment working in-house in the litigation team of a large global bank, where he dealt with a variety of commercial disputes.
He regularly advises clients on a variety of commercial disputes, including those involving contracts, debt recovery, insolvency and professional negligence. He has a particular interest in cross-border litigation and freezing orders.
Experience
- Representing a regulated individual director and company in relation to an extended regulatory investigation conducted by the Guernsey Financial Services Commission.
- Acting for trustees in a long-running dispute involving the former trustees of the trust who were found to have mismanaged trust property. Success was achieved at all instances and latterly at the Guernsey Court of Appeal.
- Acting for the electricity supplier of Sark in challenging a price control order issued by the Sark Electricity Price Control Commissioner. The long running dispute made international headlines as the dispute threatened the viability of the provision of electricity to the Island. In the end, the client was successful in having the Commissioner revoking his Price Control Order.
- Recently acting for a foreign company to secure a freezing order over a Guernsey-based fund in support of ancillary foreign proceedings worth approximately EUR 87 million.
Background
Having joined the firm in 2017, Quentin qualified as a Solicitor in Scotland in 2010 having trained with Maclay Murray & Spens LLP (now part of Dentons) and subsequently practised at Brodies LLP in its Business Disputes and Asset Recovery Team. He is also a Scottish Notary Public.
He completed a secondment working in-house in the litigation team of a large global bank, where he dealt with a variety of commercial disputes. Quentin was sworn in as an Advocate of the Royal Court of Guernsey in 2021.
Memberships
Quentin is a member of the Law Society of Scotland, R3, Asset Recovery Next Gen Association and ARIES.
Our dispute resolution specialists collaborate seamlessly with our corporate advisory and banking teams across jurisdictions to advise multinational corporations, trust companies, banks, funds, insurers, governments and directors. We provide a global perspective, working closely with our clients to ensure that they are best placed to respond to customer issues, fraud risks, rapidly changing market conditions and regulatory demands.
For financially distressed companies in need of restructuring and reorganisation, or for those where the opportunity to do so has passed or failed, we work to achieve the most beneficial outcome in these difficult situations.
Currently working on some of the largest and most complex cross-border insolvencies in the jurisdiction, we frequently advise top law firms from the People’s Republic of China, the US, the UK and other jurisdictions. We are regularly briefed by Sovereign Wealth Funds and Fortune 500 Companies to advise on particular restructurings, as well as investment managers from Europe and the US.
At whatever stage we are engaged, our involvement will assist in identifying the ongoing risks facing a client and to enable that client to continue to identify and effectively manage deteriorating relationships with creditors, financiers, investors or other interested parties.
In regulatory disputes there are often fine lines between the usual wrangling with the regulator and something more serious – by matching our mix of experienced contentious and non-contentious lawyers to the particular problem at hand, we achieve better and more efficient outcomes. As regulatory experts, we frequently act on contentious matters and can leverage our experience to help clients achieve the highest regulatory standards and avoid common pitfalls.
Jakob International Inc v HSBC Private Bank (Suisse) SA, Guernsey Branch
Partner Michael Adkins and Senior Associates Quentin Bregg and Amy Davies recently acted in the long-running dispute of Jakob International Inc v HSBC Private Bank (Suisse) SA, Guernsey Branch and in doing so, were able to successfully prove to the satis...
When does a creditor have standing to bring a winding-up application in the Channel Islands?
It is an important question for any creditor considering such an application in the Channel Islands as the position - and the tests that apply - in Guernsey and Jersey are surprisingly different. Senior Associates Daisy Bovingdon and Quentin Bregg cover ...
Proceed with caution: BVI costs
Given that the BVI is an international business and financial centre, disputes usually have a cross-jurisdictional element to them. As a result, parties often instruct overseas legal counsel in addition to BVI practitioners. In such cases multiple firms ...
Collas Crill explains… A guide to compulsory winding-up in Guernsey
This is part of a series of guides in which we examine areas of law that frequently arise in practice. Further guides will be released weekly; click here to subscribe to receive Collas Crill news and insights by email. Introduction Companies are wound ...
Quentin Bregg, lawyer in Collas Crill's dispute resolution team in Guernsey, has been promoted to Senior Associate in the latest in a string of promotions across the firm. Quentin, who joined the firm in 2017, specialises in complex commercial litigatio...
The Royal Court's latest judgment on an application to approve liquidators' fees demonstrates a strong and thorough approach to protecting creditors. Lt Bailiff Hazel Marshall QC robustly analysed the application and criticised some elements of the Liqui...
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