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Ogier's Dispute Resolution team in Cayman is one of the largest in the jurisdiction and has acted in some of the largest and most complex insolvencies before the Cayman courts in recent years, including Abraaj, Constellation, Ocean Rig, AHAB, and Kuwait Port Fund.
With a pedigree in local and cross-border trust dispute resolution, we:
Our team is regularly asked to provide expert evidence in respect of foreign proceedings concerning various aspects of Cayman Islands law. Additionally, we acted in the first Cayman case to consider the effect of the Trusts Law Foreign Element Provisions as regards an attempt to enforce foreign matrimonial orders purporting to vary a Cayman trust.
Key Contacts: Rachael Reynolds KC, Marc Kish, Jennifer Fox, Gemma Bellfield, Christopher Levers, Shaun Maloney and Jeremy Snead
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Ogier represented the Investors’ Council of Neoma Private Equity Fund IV (formerly known as Abraaj Private Equity Fund IV) in various contentious matters stemming from the Abraaj insolvency, including liquidator clawback claims valued at USD123.8 million.
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Ogier have one of the strongest disputes teams in Cayman. They have great bench strength and are always efficient and responsive.
They display good practical and strategic judgement and their local knowledge of the legal market is very reassuring. Their legal analysis is always spot-on and extremely thorough.
Ogier is one of the best law firms on the island - commercial, hard-working and collaborative.
Ogier is a forward-thinking and creative law firm which has significantly grown its disputes team over recent years and promoted some strong young partners.
Ogier have one of the strongest disputes teams in Cayman. They have great bench strength and are always efficient and responsive.
They display good practical and strategic judgement and their local knowledge of the legal market is very reassuring. Their legal analysis is always spot-on and extremely thorough.
Ogier is one of the best law firms on the island - commercial, hard-working and collaborative.
Ogier is a forward-thinking and creative law firm which has significantly grown its disputes team over recent years and promoted some strong young partners.
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A pleasure to work with. Rachael is astute, determined, very knowledgeable and effective.
Rachael Reynolds is a market leader in the contentious trusts space.
Rachael is the doyenne of the Cayman legal profession and rightly so. She is ferocious as an advocate - extremely sharp and tenacious.
Rachael Reynolds is very highly respected and is a key personality on Cayman litigation matters.
Jennifer Fox has fast established herself as one of the leading dispute resolution lawyers in the Cayman Islands, with an excellent standing among her peers. Her practice covers matters relating to trusts and distressed investment funds. She is also noted for her experience handling high-profile insolvency and fraud matters.
Jen Fox is very sensible and gives useful, practical advice. She understands the local market and is well respected by opposing counsel, as well as being very easy to deal with.
She and her team are detail-oriented, smart, thorough and generally good people to work with.
Jennifer Fox is a very, very good lawyer - she is very strong on contentious trust work.
Jennifer Fox brings gravitas and energy to her cases. She is very high-profile in the market given her involvement in complex matters such as Abraaj.
Jen Fox is very able, very organised. She is a good team leader and is very good in very complex cross-border fraud matters; she coordinates and manages all aspects very well.
Marc is very cerebral, smart, very hard-working and responsive. He is very much an integral part of insolvency scene in the Cayman Islands.
He is very strong in insolvency litigation. A trusted set of hands on sensitive matters that require judgement and strategy.
He knows his laws inside and out, and he seems to have good relationships with everybody in Cayman.
Marc Kish is intelligent, measured and a good strategist.
Marc Kish is very sensible, very reliable and a very good guy to work with.
What Gemma Bellfield does not now about insolvency is not worth knowing. She is dedicated, tough, feisty and a great lawyer.
Gemma is a mainstay in coordinating litigation strategy. She offers candid, prompt and effective advice throughout the process.
Christopher Levers counsels clients on an array of high-value commercial litigation and insolvency proceedings, as well as trust disputes.
Chris is a very safe pair of hands. He is very thoughtful and very proactive.
Chris Levers is a prominent figure in the emerging litigation and asset recovery space for digital and crypto.
Farrah Sbaiti draws high praise from a variety of sources, several of whom remark upon her impressive strategic skills. She is notable for her considerable experience assisting with Section 238 shareholder appraisal cases.
She is very knowledgeable on Section 238 and a trusted adviser to clients. She is very well organised, diligent, and hard-working with a keen insight into strategy on these cases.
Farrah is extremely efficient. She's on top of the detail and has a good strategic mind. She strikes me as a real rising star.
Farrah is a very capable and very intelligent lawyer.
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Anna Snead
Deborah Barker Roye
Dunzelle Daker
Edwin Gomez
James Clifford
Jeremy Snead
Jessica-Leigh Knowles
Jordan Constable
Head of Department
Max Galt
Nour Khaleq
Oliver Payne
Head of Department
Rebecca Findlay
Suneeta Lee
Victoria King
Victoria Kohler-Kruner
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