14:00 Panel Discussion: The Ultimate Fractional Trustee and Legal Q and A. Receive £1,000 of trustee and legal advice completely FREE. We are joined by experts from Citadel Trustees, Irwin Mitchell and Sirkin & Associates fractional lawyers to answer your questions from the floor. If you are a confirmed delegate and have a question you wish to be considered, please email info@fractionallife.com in advance.
Shortlisted questions include:
How will the new European Directive affect fractional real estate sales moving forward into 2010?
Panel: Veranne Wilkinson, Managing Director, Citadel Trustees Limited
Alex Radford, Associate, Irwin Mitchell
Andy Sirkin, Owner, Sirkin Fractional Lawyers
Moderator: Eric Gummers, Howard Kennedy
Veranne Wilkinson, Managing Director, Citadel Trustees Limited. Veranne was born and educated in France where she graduated from the Université de Franche-Comté with a Masters Degree in Modern Languages and Business in 1995 and, earlier in her career, spent some time with Clifford Chance in Paris.
Veranne has been in the shared leisure industry for over 13 years and has a wealth of knowledge and experience in the Trustee operational and legal fields, having worked for the Hutchinson Group since 1996. She was appointed to the Hutchinson Board in 2005 and now holds the position of Managing Director of both Hutchinson and Citadel, together with all other European Group companies.
Alex Radford, Associate, Irwin Mitchell. Alex Radford is an English Solicitor & Spanish Abogado with Irwin Mitchell Abogados who specialises in the fractional, timeshare and holiday ownership industry.
Alex grew up between England & Spain and is a fluent Spanish speaker. After completing his European Baccalaureat in Spain he studied Law with European Legal Systems at the University of East Anglia, Norwich and spent a year as an Erasmus student in Salamanca, Spain and completed his legal practice at Oxford. Upon graduation and after taking a year out to backpack around the world, Alex joined a leading law firm in the South West of England. It is here where he qualified as a solicitor specialising in the Tourism & Leisure department and acted for timeshare and hotel developers, trustees, exchange companies and owners committees.
In 2003, Alex moved back to Spain and joined an Anglo-Spanish firm on the Costa del Sol and became a Partner in the Property & Commercial department and continued to act for clients involved in the timeshare, hotel and leisure industry.
Alex joined Irwin Mitchell Abogados in 2008 and is now an Associate advising companies and private individuals involved in the timeshare, fractional, hotel and leisure industry. Alex lives in Spain and enjoys playing tennis, travel and wine tasting!
Andy Sirkin, Owner, Sirkin Fractional Lawyers Andy Sirkin is an expert in fractional real estate, private residence and destination clubs, and other shared vacation home arrangements. His practice includes transaction planning, offering materials, contracts, regulatory approvals, and fractional lending. He has worked on fractional properties in the U.S., Morocco, Italy, France, Spain, Portugal, Ireland, Argentina, Nicaragua, Costa Rica, Panama, Dominican Republic, Nicaragua, Belize and Mexico.
Eric Gummers, Partner, Howard Kennedy. Eric Gummers joined Howard Kennedy in September 2003 from Amhurst Brown Colombotti as part of the merger between the two firms. Eric is a corporate partner with 22 years´ experience. His expertise includes mergers and acquisitions, joint ventures, shareholder agreements and commercial contracts. A high proportion of his work is international. Eric is recognised for his specialised work in the hotel and leisure sector, particularly membership clubs, loyalty programmes, fractional, shared ownership and condo-hotels.
Eric is consistently rated in the top tier for his work in the hospitality and leisure sectors by both Chambers and Legal 500. He is a fluent French speaker and a graduate from Cambridge University. Eric is also a committee member of City of London lawyers commercial law sub-committee.
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