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Provided by Claire Goldstein
Litigation & Insolvency
Company Restoration
Trusts & Private Client Litigation
International Arbitration
Distressed funds
Family Office
Trusts
Claire is co-head of Harneys Litigation & Insolvency and Restructuring in the British Virgin Islands. She joined us in 2014 after having spent five years at another leading BVI law firm. She has extensive experience of complex multi-jurisdictional corporate and commercial litigation, trusts, fraud and asset tracing and insolvency and restructuring matters and has worked with a wide variety of clients. Claire also regularly represents clients in the BVI courts on a number of interlocutory applications including urgent applications for injunctions, the appointment of interim receivers and other forms of interim relief.
Claire has worked on some of the leading cases in the jurisdiction including the Fairfield litigation where she represented a number of banks that had invested into Fairfield Sentry Ltd which was a feeder fund into Bernard Madoff Investment Securities Limited. She has also worked on some of the largest and most complex enforcement claims in order to enforce foreign judgments and arbitral awards in the BVI.
Prior to moving offshore Claire worked at Slaughter and May and Cleary Gottlieb Steen & Hamilton in London. She was called to the Bar of England and Wales in 2004. Claire was also a lecturer in constitutional and administrative Law at St Hilda’s College, University of Oxford.
Claire is recommended by Chambers and Legal 500 as a leading BVI practitioner. She is a member of INSOL and the International Women's Insolvency & Restructuring Confederation (IWIRC). Claire is also on the advisory board for the Trusts and Estates Litigation Forum.
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Claire Goldstein co-heads the BVI litigation, insolvency and restructuring department at Harneys. She acts in a range of BVI litigation proceedings, including asset tracing, contentious trust matters and insolvency cases. Her activity also encompasses shareholder disputes and white-collar fraud work.
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Claire Goldstein is a star of the BVI Bar. She is highly approachable, and also brings to the table a keen intellect as well as a strong sense of the way to run a case and the likely outcome.
Claire Goldstein is excellent; she is commercial and easy to work with.
Claire Goldstein is a very good lawyer. She has a full and clear understanding of how we like to work. Her input on tactics and strategy is also of a high standard.
Claire Goldstein is a star of the BVI Bar. She is highly approachable, and also brings to the table a keen intellect as well as a strong sense of the way to run a case and the likely outcome.
Claire Goldstein is excellent; she is commercial and easy to work with.
Claire Goldstein is a very good lawyer. She has a full and clear understanding of how we like to work. Her input on tactics and strategy is also of a high standard.