Mathew Newman

Practice Areas

Banking Disputes; Channel Islands Local Legal Services; Corporate and Financial Services Disputes; Dispute Resolution; Enforcement of Judgments and Awards; Fraud and Asset Tracing; Funds Disputes; International Arbitration; Investigations and Regulatory Advice; Regulatory; Restructuring and Insolvency; Shareholder and Valuation Disputes; Trusts Advisory Group; Trusts Disputes

Career

Mathew leads Ogier's Dispute Resolution team in Guernsey and is also global head of the firm's multi-disciplinary Restructuring and Insolvency practice. His practice encompasses commercial and financial dispute resolution, with a special focus on contentious insolvency and restructuring and regulatory matters, schemes of arrangement, shareholder disputes and matters involving investment schemes. Mathew also has considerable experience in relation to more general commercial disputes involving financial services businesses, Guernsey trusts and large-scale construction claims.

Mathew qualified as an advocate of the Royal Court of Guernsey in February 2011, where he appears regularly on complex commercial and trusts disputes and insolvency/restructuring matters. In particular, Mathew frequently acts for trustees and beneficiaries in both hostile and administrative trusts proceedings, as well as for insolvency office holders and economic stakeholders in contentious cases involving distressed or insolvent structures, especially in cases of fraud and asset tracing. He also has substantial experience of civil cases involving breach of directors' duties, shareholder disputes and professional negligence, together with contentious regulatory cases in the context of proceeds of crime, sanctions and anti-money laundering legislation.

Mathew joined the firm in 2008 from global firm DLA Piper where he was a member of the Restructuring Group. Mathew is a qualified commercial mediator and is a member of the executive committee of ARIES, the local chapter of INSOL International. He is a member of the Guernsey insolvency law reform committee, the Insolvency Lawyers’ Association, the Association of Business Recovery Professionals (R3) and is an overseas member of the Chancery Bar Association. Mathew is also a member of the editorial board of International Corporate Rescue magazine and a committee member of INSOL International's Webinar Series.

Mathew is also part of Ogier's Aviation and Marine sector group and has worked on litigation cases surrounding aircraft leasing in an insolvency situation as well as a case involving securing shipping vessels around the world on behalf of the liquidators of an oil and gas company.

Professional Memberships

Mathew is a qualified commercial mediator and is a member of the executive committee of ARIES, the local chapter of INSOL International. He is a member of the Guernsey insolvency law reform committee, the Insolvency Lawyers’ Association, the Association of Business Recovery Professionals (R3) and is an overseas member of the Chancery Bar Association.