Tim Corfield

Guernsey

Carey Olsen · Tim is an Advocate and a partner in the dispute resolution and litigation team. He has twenty-five years' experience in trial and litigation advisory work, representing clients in high value, high-stakes and reputationally significant cases, many involving multiple jurisdictions working alongside other international law firms. His practice spans the breadth of corporate and company law disputes, contentious corporate transactional matters, banking and financial services litigation, funds disputes, shareholder disputes and derivative and unfair prejudice claims, as well as trusts disputes and general commercial litigation. He also has significant experience in the fields of corporate insolvency, acting in various claims arising from the collapses of Enron, Madoff, Stanford and Lehman Brothers. He often represents boards of directors and other fiduciaries, such as trustees, in all manner of crises, often in contentious and regulatory matters as part of his board advisory practice, assisting on commercially and financially sensitive or complex transactions and investigations, breach of duty and breach of trust claims. Tim has also devoted time to various pro bono activities, including in cases dealing with: opposition to the death penalty – successfully as amicus curiae to the U.S. Supreme Court in the case of Carman L. Deck v. State of Missouri No. 04-5293, Citation 544 U.S. 622, viz. the constitutionality of shackling a prisoner during the sentencing phase of a trial (Deck was finally executed in May 2022); racism and discrimination; and representing the family of Baby Jack at the inquest into his death at Princess Elizabeth Hospital in January 2014.

Guernsey