Cox Hallett Wilkinson Limited boasts ‘a team of highly experienced lawyers’ who are skilled across a range of disputes, especially those surrounding commercial law, trusts, contracts, schemes of arrangement, corporate insolvency, and employment law. Shareholder and director disputes are also areas of expertise for the practice. Craig Rothwell sits at the helm of the team, and he is ably supported by David Kessaram, a key member of the department with notable experience in restructuring and insolvency-related mandates, as well as insurance disputes and trust claims.
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Testimonials
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- ‘The CHW team offer a wealth of knowledge and expertise in bodily injury and property damage claims. They are very responsive and have always handled our cases while keeping our best interests in mind.’
- ‘Craig Rothwell is highly qualified and has always maintained a high level of professionalism while acting on our behalf.’
- ‘Craig Rothwell provides exemplary customer service and is consistently proactive and reliable. He takes a very pragmatic approach to resolution and always maintains a very strong commercial awareness when advising his clients. He is very fair and reasonable and is able to advocate in a manner which communicates a very strong command of the law with an emphasis on integrity and reasonableness.’
- ‘Under the guidance of David Kessaram, all aspects of the team's talents are appropriately and perceptively assigned to serve the client's best interests. Partners and clients are matched for compatibility and uniqueness of cases, and partners consult across accounts when deemed warranted. All are technically supported and adept at accurate record keeping and updating.’
- ‘My association has be primarily with David Kessaram. He is pleasant and patient but especially strong in his knowledge of the law and its precedents. His court demeanour cannot be faulted, and he is respected among all who know him and work with him or opposite him on legal matters. All those engaged with him would agree.’
- ‘This practice has a team of highly experienced lawyers covering the full range of law practice. In commercial law practice, including litigation as well as arbitration and dispute resolution, the team is second to none. The team's experience under the leadership of David Kesseram is unmatched by any in Bermuda or the Caribbean.'
- 'The team embraces diversity in their employment practices, their approach to clients and their interaction with other firms or entities. They demonstrate exceptional ability and willingness to collaborate with other entities in the interest of fairness and the common good.'
- ‘I have interacted a lot over many years with David Kesseram. I am impressed by his brilliance and often hear other senior lawyers speak of him with warmth and deference. They are all impressed by his knowledge and application of the law and his ability to make others around him understand the legal issues of concern in any particular situation.'
Key clients
- CG Insurance
- AIG Bermuda
- Bermuda Hospitals Board
- Freisenbruch Insurance Services Ltd
- KMPG
- HWH Reality Holdings LLC
- Partner Capital LLC
- Reliance Globalcom Limited
- Official Committee Unsecured Creditors- Vesttoo Ltd (US)
- Hallmark Properties (Panama)
- Rubis
- Gorham’s
Work highlights
- Acted for one branch of the beneficiaries in respect to an appeal concerning the construction of certain protector provisions contained in 73 settlements.
- Acted for a client in a complex blessing of a proposal to restructure 23 trust settlements to which three distinguishable branches of a family are beneficially interested.
- Representing one of the plaintiffs in an application to appraise the fair value of the shares under section 106(6) of the Companies Act 1981.
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Craig Rothwell