Biography
Alex Potts QC is a Partner, and Head of the Litigation & Restructuring practice in the Cayman Islands office, of Conyers.
With a particular focus on complex disputes, Alex handles matters in the fields of banking, financial services, investment funds, (re)insurance, professional negligence, company law, trusts, asset recovery and contentious insolvency; his practice also extends to matters of public, constitutional and administrative, regulatory, telecommunications, employment, planning, and environmental law.
Alex has conducted cases and appeared as leading counsel before a variety of first-instance and appellate courts, arbitration tribunals, and regulatory tribunals, in England and Wales, Bermuda, the Cayman Islands, and the British Virgin Islands, including the Privy Council. He is frequently instructed as counsel in international arbitrations and mediations, and associated legal proceedings.
Alex is a member of a number of professional organizations including INSOL International, Chartered Institute of Arbitrators (Fellow), COMBAR (Offshore Committee Co-Chair), and the Chancery Bar Association, and he has served as an appointed member of Bermuda’s Copyright Tribunal and Human Rights Tribunal.
Alex is the author of many publications on issues of offshore law, and he is regularly invited to speak at conferences and seminars, and to give expert opinion evidence.