Adrian Taylor has more than 20 years of experience in international disputes, trust and taxation matters, and insolvency and restructuring issues. Adrian represents clients in dispute resolution, commercial litigation, and public and administrative law matters. He also advises private clients on trusts and other structures designed to minimize taxes and protect family wealth. He has counseled insolvency practitioners, creditors and other stakeholders on substantive and procedural issues arising in the context of formal insolvency procedures.

Adrian’s litigation experience includes advising employers, contractors and subcontractors, professional consultants and insurers in the civil engineering and building sectors of the construction industry, and assisting with dispute resolution by negotiation, litigation or arbitration.

Prior to joining Squire Sanders, Adrian worked for a law firm in Hong Kong with international affiliations. From 1995 to 1999 Adrian practiced in the Cayman Islands and was involved in several high-profile cases including the failure of a major local bank and a dispute involving the development of land by a large hotel chain. He has also dealt with a variety of noncontentious matters including the closure of a licensed Hong Kong branch of a large Scandinavia-based bank, and has represented clients across the globe in the Americas, Asia, Australia and Europe.

Adrian is a member of The Society of Trust and Estate Practitioners and is a frequent contributor to business magazines. He is an adjunct professor at the College of Further Education and a moot court judge at the Cayman Islands Law School. In 2002 Adrian was a speaker and committee member of the Inter-Pacific Bar Association’s Annual Conference in Hong Kong.

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• Advising a claimant in a complex family trust dispute with trust assets valued at US$16 billion.
• Advising a Hong Kong resident as a claimant in an ICC arbitration arising out of a dispute between council members of a Liechenstein foundation.
• Registering and enforcing in Hong Kong’s High Court arbitral awards made in Singapore and India in the same manner as judgments that can be registered in Hong Kong under the Foreign Judgments (Reciprocal Enforcement) Ordinance.
• Enforcing or resisting enforcement of arbitral awards in Hong Kong under the New York Convention including resistance of enforcement of an award because it was partially outside the scope of the submission.
• Acting for a claimant in a domestic arbitration in Hong Kong of a contractual dispute arising out of a construction piling contract.
• Handling construction litigation and arbitration cases for both small and large contractors.
• Obtaining approval from Hong Kong Companies Court of a multijurisdictional Scheme of Arrangement of a Hong Kong subsidiary of a Singapore-listed company following creditor approval for the scheme.
• Advising a claimant’s liquidators in Hong Kong relating to a proposed international arbitration arising out of a primarily contractual dispute. The arbitration agreement provided for the arbitration to be in Hong Kong at the Hong Kong International Arbitration Center (HKIAC), English law to govern and the rules under United Nations Commission on International Trade Law (UNCITRAL) to be adopted. The claims were referred to arbitration by one of the claimant’s shareholders previously before the claimant went into liquidation in Hong Kong as a derivative action before the reference was terminated for procedural default without prejudice to the claims.
• Advising on the enforcement of cross-border awards.
• Defending a client in a contractual dispute including a purported profit sharing agreement.
• Advising financial services providers in a tax dispute with the Hong Kong Inland Revenue Department (IRD).
• Acting on behalf of a Hong Kong subsidiary of a global parent company with a Parallel Scheme of Arrangement under Section 166 Companies Ordinance.
• Advising the Hong Kong branch of a Scandinavia-based bank following its decision to close its Hong Kong branch including dealing with the Hong Kong Monetary Authority.
• Advising on debt recovery and enforcement for lenders in Hong Kong and other countries.
• Acting for a professional creditor in the winding-up of a listed company.
• Representing stakeholders or appointment takers at meetings of creditors and contributors, and at meetings of the Committee of Inspection.
• Advising on shareholders’ disputes including 168A unfair prejudice petitions, banking litigation and professional negligence claims against auditors and a professional negligence action against a licensed financial advisor.
• Participating in a challenge of an arbitral award where one of the arbitrators had previous contact with a witness raising doubts about his impartiality.
• Advising a client regarding a dispute between two global investors whose countries had entered into a bilateral investment treaty stating that any disputes were to be referred to arbitration with its seat in England.
• Acting for a respondent in the UK in an international arbitration under ICC Rules arising out of a commercial contract including an application to the High Court in England for security for costs, which was successfully prevented based on the Bank Mellat case.
• Obtaining interim protection from a court pending formation of an arbitration tribunal.
• Acting as co-counsel before the Grand Court of the Cayman Islands and the Cayman Islands Court of Appeal in an application for judicial review of a decision by the country’s Immigration Department to grant a subsidiary of a Swiss-based airline a license to acquire a controlling interest in a company operating a duty-free business.
• Advising liquidators regarding a creditor’s funding arrangement for arbitration proceedings in Hong Kong.
• Assisting liquidators in successfully recovering assets disposed of post-petition and as an unfair preference of a creditor, and advising on set-off issues.
• Arbitrating a construction dispute between the main contractor, subcontractor and a sub-subcontractor in the Cayman Islands.