Commercial Litigation and Dispute Resolution

Our attorneys have extensive experience of handling high value and complex corporate and commercial disputes and litigation. They are focused on providing effective and commercially driven advice and outcomes for our clients.

Our practice covers:
- Cross-border corporate insolvency and restructuring
- Minority shareholder disputes
- Derivative actions
- Taking action to preserve property and restrain unlawful dealings in assets (e.g. by obtaining or defending freezing and disclosure injunctions)
- Merger disputes
- Joint Venture Disputes
- Trust litigation
- Asset tracing
- Mediation and arbitration proceedings

We offer a responsive, strategic and commercial approach to the way we advise on resolving disputes, and the way we handle litigation for our clients.

We act for investment funds, financial institutions, professional trustees, beneficiaries, banks, insurance companies, and high net worth individuals. We regularly work with onshore law firms in major financial centres around the world, including London, New York, Hong Kong, and Singapore.

Related Publications

29 Mar 2019 Legal Insight - Minority Shareholder Rights under Cayman Islands Law Introduction In general, the rights of shareholders of Cayman Islands domiciled companies are governed by the provisions of the Companies Law (2018 Revision) as amended (the “Companies Law”) and the provisions contained in the Memorandum... Read More

23 Aug 2017 Consolidation of Dissenters' Rights under Cayman Islands Merger Law In an interim judgement issued on 26th January 2017 the Court decided that interim payments pursuant to the Grand Court Rules (G.C.R.) could be requested by dissenting shareholders and granted by the Court... Read More

14 Aug 2017 The New Cayman Islands Trademarks Regime Goes Live In the previous issue of our series of legal insights on owning intellectual property (IP) through a Cayman Islands corporate structure, we presented a brief overview of the new trademark registration process Read More

3 Aug 2017 Enforcement of Foreign Judgments in the Cayman Islands The Foreign Judgments Reciprocal Enforcement Law (1996 Revision) (the â€œLawâ€) allows a judgment creditor to apply for the judgment to be registered in the Grand Court... Read More

24 Jul 2017 Insolvency in the Cayman Islands' setting aside antecedent transactions In certain circumstances the official liquidator of a Cayman company may be able to take action to recover assets which have been transferred in the run up to the companyâ€™s insolvency. Read More

30 Aug 2016 Shareholder Disputes - A comparison between the Cayman Islands and the British Virgin Islands What is the scope and standard of director's duties? What are the key remedies available to a member or shareholder? Read More

Shareholder Disputes and Corporate Insolvency: Applications for Validation Orders by solvent companies and exempted limited partnerships

6 Apr 2016 Shareholder Disputes and Corporate Insolvency: Applications for Validation Orders by solvent companies and exempted limited partnerships On 9 February 2016, Clifford J., sitting in the Financial Services Division of the Grand Court of the Cayman Islands gave Judgment in In Re Torchlight Fund L.P. (unreported) reaffirming the principles which the Court will take into account in determi Read More

25 Jan 2016 Shareholder disputes in the Cayman Islands: Petitions to wind up a company on Shareholder disputes in the Cayman Islands: Petitions to wind up a company on "just and equitable" grounds for loss of substratum following the recent case of In Re Harbinger Class PE Holdings (Cayman) Ltd Read More