Ivor Shrago

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Ivor is currently with M.B. KEMP LLP as a Consultant.

He has extensive experience in General commercial, Property, Corporate and General litigation.

Experience

October 2022 to present
Consultant - M.B. KEMP LLP

April 2021 to October 2022
Consultant - Bracher Rawlins

March 2017 to April 2021
Consultant – Mackrelll Turner Garrett (later Mackrell)

2014 to March 2017
Consultant – Moorfield James (later Hewitson Moorfields)

September 2013 to 2014
Consultant with Royds LLP, Solicitors

May 2007 to September 2013
Consultant, Edwin Coe LLP, solicitors

April 2002 to April 2007:

Partner, Druces & Attlee, Solicitors

January 1998 to December 2000:

Managing Director, Vigers Asset Management Limited, part of the Vigers Group based in Hong Kong providing professional property services and having some 350 employees. It also had branches throughout Asia including in particular, China, Thailand, Korea and Taiwan.

VAML was set up to: advise on non-performing debt; acquisition of non-performing debt portfolios; acquisition of (convertible) equity stakes within a debt restructuring exercise etc.; development of general business in Asia.

Group General Counsel to the Vigers Group and its parent company, SunChase International Group (China) Limited. Conducted general work on behalf of both Groups; negotiated and drafted contracts for share acquisitions, shareholders agreements, joint ventures etc; advised on variations necessitated by changes of legislation;

Took proactive role in providing general advice to both groups including the overall management structure of Vigers; co-ordinated and managed the legal work on behalf of both organizations (including litigation) and instructed law firms both in Hong Kong and in the Region in connection with all litigation and other legal processes required; generally advised in connection with all legal aspects of the businesses conducted by both organisations.

Consultant with legal firm in Hong Kong, Skrine Thomas Sharrock (now part of Kennedys, an international firm based in the City of London)

Forged links with well-known international groups in South-East Asia for the purpose of providing comprehensive property services and management of non-performing debt portfolios.

March 1996 to January 1998

General Counsel, Peregrine Direct Investments Limited (“PDI”). PDI was the direct investment subsidiary of the Peregrine Investment Holdings Limited, at the time, a leading (quoted) banking group based in Hong Kong, having some 28 offices in 15 Countries around the World. PDI was responsible for effecting the main investments on behalf not only of the Public Company, but also the private company, Peregrine International Limited. In addition, PDI handled the management of a Publicly quoted Fund, namely, The Investment Company of China, in which, inter alia, funds from George Soros and Carlo de Benedetti are invested.

Advised in connection with the equity investments made by PDI on behalf of the various entities it represented. Advised further in connection with the general management and organisation of both PDI, ICC and the sundry portfolios of investments held by them. Liaised with outside lawyers. General corporate work, including drafting of sundry legal documentation; working closely in connection with the setting up of Fund on behalf of Peregrine Investments Holdings Limited, instructing and working with lawyers in Hong Kong, Washington DC and Cayman Islands. Liaising further in connection with the management and investments of the Asian Infrastructure Fund (“AIF”), a US$1 billion Fund.

Advising further in connection with investments that had become adverse and on the steps required to deal with the same. Providing general commercial advice.

April 1990 to March 1996

A senior partner in Forsyte Kerman (later Forsyte Saunders Kerman) of 76 New Cavendish Street, London, W.1. (now ceased in operation) Dealing with development and construction work (factory and warehouse estates and shopping centres); general land acquisition and disposal. General corporate and commercial work.

August 1987 to April 1990

A senior partner in Hamlin Slowe, of Roxburghe House, 273 Regent Street, London, W.1. General work as above. Head of Property Department.

April 1968 to August 1987

Partner in H Davis & Co (senior partner from November 1982) of 42 Brook Street, London W.1. and then of 105 Park Street, Mayfair, London, W.1. Wide variety of work of general nature consisting primarily of major commercial property work as well as corporate and commercial work as well as commercial litigation including bankruptcy and liquidation work.

May 1965 to April 1968
Assistant, H Davis & Co

November 1961 to May 1965
Articled Clerk, H Davis & Co

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1978 to 1980
Non-executive Chairman, British Anzani Limited, a public, quoted engineering and property company.

1978 to 1988
Director, Gucci Limited, Guccio Gucci SPA. Involved in the general management of both companies as well as providing general commercial and legal advice.

1968 to 1996
Director of wide variety of companies. Most directorships resigned upon departure to Hong Kong.