Apr 2025

Conyers is pleased to announce a series of well-deserved promotions that highlight the legal talent and dedication within our firm.

Newly promoted Directors are William Cooper and Davina Hargun in our Bermuda office.

Anne Campbell, Beverly Cheung, Britt Smith, Sarah Lusher, Dr. Jane (Jevgenija) Fedotova and Nick Ward have been promoted to Counsel across our Bermuda, BVI, Cayman Islands and Hong Kong offices.

Satjivan Aujla, Sophia Collis, Mauricio Da Rocha, Caroline Dekker, Conor Doyle, Frank Farrell, Kathleen McBeath and Lauren Pereira have been promoted to Senior Associate in our Bermuda and Cayman offices.

Conyers Chairman and Director Christian Luthi said, “These promotions recognise the hard work and individual achievement of each of these members of our team.” said Luthi. “We are confident that these individuals will continue to provide excellent service to our clients contribute to the success of our firm as they step into their new roles. On behalf of my fellow Conyers partners and our entire firm, we extend our congratulations to everyone on their well-earned appointments.”

About The New Directors

William Cooper, Corporate, Bermuda

William joined Conyers as a Pupil in 2014 and qualified as an Associate in 2015. William’s practice covers all aspects of Bermuda corporate law, with a focus on insurance, investment fund and investment business law and regulation. William specialises in the formation, registration and ongoing regulation of investment funds, investment businesses and insurers, and has advised on the formation, licensing and listing on the Bermuda Stock Exchange of numerous cat bond special purpose insurance vehicles. William also regularly advises on various matters of general corporate and commercial law, including incorporations/formations, continuations, financings, mergers and acquisitions.

Davina Hargun, Private Client & Trust, Bermuda

Davina joined Conyers in 2015. Davina’s practice covers all aspects of private client and trust law including international and local trusts, commercial trusts, private trust company structures, philanthropic/charitable structures and estate planning. This includes advising protectors, family offices, individual trustees, corporate trustees and private trust companies in relation to legal and administrative trust matters.

About The New Counsels

Anne Campbell, Private Client & Trust, Bermuda*

Anne joined Conyers in 2022. Anne spent five years in the private client department of a Bermuda law firm after practicing in London for nine years, where she gained exposure to a wide range of private client work.

Anne’s expertise includes advising local and international individuals and families on lifetime and succession planning, wills, trusts, and estate administration, including probates, intestacy, reseals, stamp duty and related property matters. She also has expertise in powers of attorney, advance directives, and mental capacity issues.

Dr. Jane (Jevgenija) Fedotova, FCIArb, Litigation, BVI

Jane’s practice covers a wide range of commercial, insolvency and arbitration matters. She has particular expertise advising on complex, high-value disputes and issues pertaining to asset tracing and fraud, as well as appointment of liquidators over BVI companies. She regularly advises clients on interim court measures including freezing injunctions and the appointment of receivers in support of foreign litigation and arbitration, in addition to the enforcement of foreign arbitral awards and judgments in the BVI. Her recent work experience includes representing a client in BVI seated arbitration proceedings governed by BVI Arbitration Rules and a related challenge of the BVI arbitral award, as well as acting for client in the BVI proceedings concerning worldwide freezing order and contempt in the context of the wider global litigation strategy.

Beverly Cheung, Corporate, Hong Kong

Beverly joined Conyers in 2017. Beverly’s practice covers all aspects of banking and syndicated financing work, debt capital markets, M&A work, mortgage backed securities transactions, MTN programmes, exchange offers, tender offers, consent solicitations, corporate restructuring and liability management exercises, including pre-IPO equity and debt financings, initial public offerings of shares in the Hong Kong and the US exchanges involving Cayman Islands, Bermuda and British Virgin Islands offshore companies. She has been involved in a number of significant debt capital markets transactions. These transactions have involved Cayman Islands, Bermuda and the British Virgin Islands property infrastructure companies listed on the Hong Kong exchange, including PRC utility and energy State Owned Enterprises. She has also been actively assisting ship owners, banks, leasing companies and other financial institutions in ship finance and sale and leaseback transactions.

Sarah Lusher, Corporate, Bermuda

Sarah’s practice includes all aspects of corporate and commercial law, including cross border and multi-jurisdictional corporate finance, M&A, re-domestications, partnerships and insurance law and regulation. She advises both exempted and local companies in a variety of areas, such as restructurings, refinancing, business formation and corporate governance. Sarah also frequently advises on regulatory matters, focusing on economic substance, AML/ATF compliance and the licensing and ongoing compliance obligations of regulated entities, including investment funds, segregated accounts companies, insurance companies and insurance intermediaries. Sarah acts for a number of public companies and financial institutions.

Britt Smith, Dispute Resolution, Bermuda*

Britt has experience in contentious trust matters, contentious restructuring and insolvency, complex commercial litigation and arbitration, regulatory matters, and fraud and negligence disputes. Britt advises and acts for trustees, protectors and beneficiaries in respect of offshore trusts and estates, directors, creditors, shareholders and liquidators in the offshore financial services market, and corporate clients in large commercial disputes. She is accustomed to managing complex, high-value litigation. In the regulatory space Britt has acted in contentious winding up proceedings and litigation concerning breach of regulatory obligations, assisted with internal investigations, onsite investigations and consequential remediation efforts. In connection with this she has also advised on enforcement actions and settlement processes to keep clients out of enforcement and minimise reputational damage.

Nick Ward, Corporate, Cayman Islands

Nick has experience representing fund sponsors, asset managers, banks and other international financial institutions on a broad range of finance and corporate matters but specialises in buy-side representations, advising hedge fund managers and other private fund sponsors with respect to all aspects of the establishment and maintenance of hedge funds and other private investment funds and SMAs, their financing and downstream investment activities and associated regulatory compliance obligations. Nick also represents managers and issuers in relation to CLO transactions and otherwise LPs and other members of the investment community in connection with seeding and side-letter arrangements and series financings, investment managers in connection with sub-advisory mandates involving Cayman Islands structures and fund boards with respect to their duties under Cayman Islands law and governance arrangements more generally. Nick practised for over a decade in London, including time in-house at one of Europe’s largest hedge fund managers and one of the UK’s largest listed active asset managers.

In addition, Nick has recently advised several ad hoc bondholder groups in relation to Chapter 11 restructurings involving Cayman Islands vehicles and calls on onshore experience in not only advising arrangers, collateral managers and investors in connection with structured product issuances and investments, note issuance programs and repackaging and other structured finance transactions (particularly CLOs), but also hedge and private equity funds, banks, pension funds, insurers and corporates on a wide spectrum of trading, hedging and financing transactions, security and prime brokerage arrangements and investment management-related matters. He has additional recent experience assisting issuers in relation to Cayman Islands Stock Exchange listings.

About The New Senior Associates

Satjivan Singh Aujla (Satj), Private Client & Trust, Bermuda*

Satj joined Conyers in October 2021. Satj completed his training contract with a leading London law firm, qualifying into their Private Client department where he gained exposure to a wide range of private wealth, trust and tax work. Satj’s practice involves the creation and restructuring of trust structures, international matters spanning high-value private wealth disputes and advising trustees (individuals and corporates) on their duties.

Sophia Collis, Corporate, Bermuda

Sophia’s practice covers all aspects of corporate and commercial law including general corporate matters, capital markets, insurance law and regulation and finance transactions, and advising on investment funds. Sophia has acted for private and public companies across a broad range of industries which include energy, manufacturing, business and financial services, real estate, technology and pharmaceuticals.

Mauricio Da Rocha, Corporate, Cayman Islands

Mauricio specialises in general corporate advice, mergers and acquisitions and equity capital markets transactions, with substantial experience in corporate restructuring. Prior to joining Conyers, Mauricio was based in Perth with a focus on cross-border M&A experience, particularly in the Australian and Asian markets.

Caroline Dekker, Corporate, Cayman Islands

Caroline represents clients on a wide range of public and private corporate matters, with a particular focus on cross-border mergers and acquisitions, and equity capital markets transactions. She has a wealth of experience advising on IPOs, SPACs, M&A transactions, take-privates, joint ventures and corporate restructures.

Conor Doyle, Dispute Resolution, Bermuda

Conor’s practice focuses on commercial and civil litigation and arbitration. He also has experience in company law (contentious and non-contentious) and insolvency matters. Conor has advised or acted on behalf of local and exempted companies in a broad range of disputes work in the Bermuda courts. His company law practice covers shareholder disputes, the construction of company bye-laws and applications under the Companies Act 1981. Conor regularly acts in landlord-tenant and other property disputes in the Bermuda courts. He advises insurers, occupiers and individuals in personal injury matters. Conor has also advised companies, creditors and liquidators in several high-profile winding-up proceedings.

Frank Farrell, Corporate, Cayman Islands

Frank’s practice encompasses a broad range of corporate, regulatory and commercial matters involving Cayman Islands companies with particular emphasis advising international insurance institutions, captive insurers and commercial (re)insurers, on all aspects of Cayman Islands insurance and reinsurance law and regulation. In addition to his corporate and commercial work Frank has extensive experience advising on private equity and hedge fund matters including fund formations and registrations, fund financing, fund restructuring, mergers and acquisitions, joint ventures and general corporate transactions as well as Cayman Islands regulatory compliance matters. Frank was a guest speaker on a panel discussing Captive Fundamentals at the Cayman Captive Forum 2024.

Kathleen McBeath, Corporate, Bermuda

Kathleen’s practice includes all aspects of general corporate and commercial law, including mergers and acquisitions, IPOs and direct listings, private placements, equity and debt financing as well as re-domestications. Kathleen also regularly advises on matters of insurance law and regulation, including the licensing and ongoing regulatory obligations of all classes of (re)insurance companies.

Lauren Pereira, Corporate, Bermuda

Lauren is currently on secondment in the London office. Lauren’s practice includes all aspects of corporate law, with a particular focus on insurance law and regulation. She regularly advises insurers on licensing and ongoing regulatory matters. Lauren also has a broad corporate practice which includes advising on corporate reorganisations, corporate financing transactions, and redomestications. In addition, she regularly advises clients on economic substance requirements and compliance.