Joanne Collett

Practice Areas

Joanne represents clients in relation to contentious and non-contentious matters including commercial disputes and fund and insolvency related matters, complex cross-border restructurings, privatisations (including by way of Scheme of Arrangement), contentious valuation issues, enforcement of rights and information gathering in relation to each of Cayman Islands, British Virgin Islands and Bermuda law. Joanne regularly represents debtors, creditors, shareholders, investors and insolvency practitioners in a wide range of litigation and insolvency/restructuring related matters, with a focus on commercial outcomes. Joanne also represents clients in relation to cases involving mergers by offshore entities, including acting for target companies, buyer consortiums, financiers and dissenting shareholders.

Joanne is often called upon to assist our Corporate and Finance teams in an advisory role in relation to risk assessment and structuring considerations for potential finance and corporate transactions, and has particular expertise in the areas of corporate governance and directors' duties, security, insolvency considerations and creditor and shareholder/investor rights. Aside from acting creditor side, Joanne has market leading expertise in representing offshore listed companies in financial distress.

Joanne was an at-large director of IWIRC International. In October 2020 she received the Fetner Award from IWIRC. Joanne was also previously a director of the Turnaround Management Association.