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Matthew Freeman

Matthew Freeman

Global 2026

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About

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Practice Areas

Matthew is head of Maples and Calder’s Dispute Resolution & Insolvency team in the Maples Group’s British Virgin Islands office. He specialises in civil fraud and asset tracing, enforcement of judgments and arbitral awards, lender enforcement, trust litigation, regulatory, corporate restructuring and insolvency. Matthew practised in England and Wales for eight years before re-locating to the British Virgin Islands in 2015. He has considerable case management and advocacy experience at the interlocutory, trial and appellate levels, as well as arbitration and mediation.

Matthew has also provided expert legal opinions at litigation and arbitration hearings in England and Wales, The Russian Federation, Israel and in the United States.

Matthew joined the Maples Group in 2021. He previously worked at other international law firms in the British Virgin Islands and prior to that worked at leading law firms Stillwells, Trethowans and Pictons in the United Kingdom

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Chambers Global Guide

Dispute Resolution - British Virgin Islands

Band 3
Band 3

Individual Editorial

Matthew Freeman heads the Maples Group's BVI dispute resolution and insolvency team. He offers extensive experience in insolvency and restructuring mandates, with further expertise relating to major trust disputes and white-collar fraud.

Strengths

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  • Matthew is an excellent team leader with great vision. I trust his judgement.

    Dispute ResolutionChambers Global Guide
  • Matthew Freeman is excellent and is really commercially in tune.

    Dispute ResolutionChambers Global Guide
  • Matt Freeman at Maples is very commercial. He's fantastic at protecting the position of insolvent office holders.

    Dispute ResolutionChambers Global Guide

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