Tim Molton
Senior Associate
Hong Kong
Tim Molton joined Walkers in 2022. He is a Senior Associate in the Insolvency, Restructuring & Dispute Resolution Group.
Tim has valuable experience across various practices, with particular focus on trusts disputes, cross-border insolvency and restructuring, commercial disputes and regulatory matters. Tim regularly acts for international insolvency practitioners, private and listed companies, directors and shareholders, trustees and beneficiaries.
Tim Molton… displays ‘excellent judgment and has proved himself in working on extremely complicated matters’. . [and is] 'excellent, particularly in the trusts litigation arena'.
Experience and recent work
Prior to joining Walkers, Tim worked for disputes practices in Bermuda, Guernsey, Australia and England.
Reported Cases: Insolvency & Restructuring
Re Genting Hong Kong Limited – acting for the Joint Provisional Liquidators of a major cruise-liner business and its subsidiary, Dream Cruises Holding Limited.
Re Agritrade Resources Limited [2020] SC (Bda) 28 Com – acted for the JPLs of the company in relation to the winding up of a publicly-traded investment holding company.
Re Stanley Gibbons (Guernsey Limited) – acted for the administrators of the Guernsey-incorporated investment company of Stanley Gibbons.
Investec Trust (Guernsey) Limited and another v Glenalla and others – acted for the joint liquidators of the Tchenguiz Discretionary Trust on various aspects of the so-called 'Tchenguiz Litigation', including ancillary and interlocutory applications.
Trusts Disputes
In the matter of the “R” Trusts (Rothschild Switzerland (CI) Trustees Limited & Ors v W & Ors) – acted for various beneficiaries of high-value Guernsey discretionary trusts in successfully defending an application relating to the admissibility of without prejudice material in a Public Trustee v Cooper application.
Wong v Grand View PTC Limited et al [2022] SC (Bda) 44 Com – acted for defendant / co-claimant in a long running trusts dispute valued at around USD $20bn, which went to a 5-month virtual trial in 2021
Wang v Grand View Private Trust Company Limited [2021] SC (Bda) 46 Com – acted for defendant / co-plaintiff in relation to an application surrounding the principles governing the Court's exercise of discretion to permit witness statements of an important witness to be admitted in evidence without cross-examination.
Wong v Grand View PTC Limited et al [2022] SC (Bda) 22 Com / Wang v Grand View Private Trust Company Limited (Civil Appeal No.4 of 2021) - Acted for the applicant / appellant in an application to rely on a witness statement alleging misconduct by other defendants in obtaining evidence from a third party witness (on basis of iniquity exception), and an application for interrogatories.
Wang v Grand View Private Trust Company Limited (Civil Appeal No.1 of 2021) – successfully acting for the appellant in an application for specific disclosure based on principles relating to joint interest privilege in a power of attorney.
Wang v Grand View Private Trust Company Limited [2021] SC (Bda) 32 Com – acting for defendant / co-plaintiff in seeking directions regarding open justice in the context of a remote hearing during the pandemic.
Grand View Private Trust Company and another (Respondents) v Wong and others (Appellant) No 2 (Bermuda) JCPC 2020/0065 – acted for the appellant in relation to a USD $500m trust dispute.
Reported Cases: Insolvency & Restructuring
Re Genting Hong Kong Limited – acting for the Joint Provisional Liquidators of a major cruise-liner business and its subsidiary, Dream Cruises Holding Limited.
Re Agritrade Resources Limited [2020] SC (Bda) 28 Com – acted for the JPLs of the company in relation to the winding up of a publicly-traded investment holding company.
Re Stanley Gibbons (Guernsey Limited) – acted for the administrators of the Guernsey-incorporated investment company of Stanley Gibbons.
Investec Trust (Guernsey) Limited and another v Glenalla and others – acted for the joint liquidators of the Tchenguiz Discretionary Trust on various aspects of the so-called 'Tchenguiz Litigation', including ancillary and interlocutory applications.
Trusts Disputes
In the matter of the “R” Trusts (Rothschild Switzerland (CI) Trustees Limited & Ors v W & Ors) – acted for various beneficiaries of high-value Guernsey discretionary trusts in successfully defending an application relating to the admissibility of without prejudice material in a Public Trustee v Cooper application.
Wong v Grand View PTC Limited et al [2022] SC (Bda) 44 Com – acted for defendant / co-claimant in a long running trusts dispute valued at around USD $20bn, which went to a 5-month virtual trial in 2021
Wang v Grand View Private Trust Company Limited [2021] SC (Bda) 46 Com – acted for defendant / co-plaintiff in relation to an application surrounding the principles governing the Court's exercise of discretion to permit witness statements of an important witness to be admitted in evidence without cross-examination.
Wong v Grand View PTC Limited et al [2022] SC (Bda) 22 Com / Wang v Grand View Private Trust Company Limited (Civil Appeal No.4 of 2021) - Acted for the applicant / appellant in an application to rely on a witness statement alleging misconduct by other defendants in obtaining evidence from a third party witness (on basis of iniquity exception), and an application for interrogatories.
Wang v Grand View Private Trust Company Limited (Civil Appeal No.1 of 2021) – successfully acting for the appellant in an application for specific disclosure based on principles relating to joint interest privilege in a power of attorney.
Wang v Grand View Private Trust Company Limited [2021] SC (Bda) 32 Com – acting for defendant / co-plaintiff in seeking directions regarding open justice in the context of a remote hearing during the pandemic.
Grand View Private Trust Company and another (Respondents) v Wong and others (Appellant) No 2 (Bermuda) JCPC 2020/0065 – acted for the appellant in relation to a USD $500m trust dispute.
Qualifications
Admitted in:
- Bermuda
- England and Wales (not practicing)
- Victoria, Australia (not practicing)
Education:
- LLB (Hons) in Law, University of Leeds, UK
- Legal Practice Course, BPP Law School, Leeds, UK
- Postgraduate Certificate in International Business Law, University of Liverpool, UK
- STEP Diploma in International Trust Management
Tim is a member of the Society of Trust and Estate Practitioners (STEP) - TEP and Restructuring and Insolvency Specialists (RISA) and a member of the Contentious Trusts Association (ConTrA).
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