Alex Horsbrugh-Porter, Counsel in Ogier's Dispute Resolution team in Guernsey, is the latest appointment to the Insolvency Rules Committee in Guernsey.
Alex has been with Ogier for the past three and a half years. He specialises in formal insolvency procedures, negligence and breach of duty claims and investor and shareholder rights/actions.
He has experience in member and creditor schemes of arrangement and worked on one of the first provisional liquidations in Guernsey.
Alongside his role in the Dispute Resolution team, Alex is also a member of Ogier's multi-jurisdictional Restructuring & Corporate Recovery team. He has also written extensively on the recent changes to Guernsey insolvency law.
Appointments to the Insolvency Rules Committee have been made by the Committee for Economic Development in anticipation of the Insolvency Ordinance coming into force. It will allow the Committee for Economic Development to formally consult the Insolvency Rules Committee for the purposes of section 426B, so that the Insolvency Ordinance and the Company Insolvency Rules may come into force at the same time.