Shaun Folpp

Practice Areas

Shaun is a partner in our Litigation, Insolvency & Restructuring Group and Managing Partner of our Hong Kong Office. He has extensive experience acting both for and against insolvency practitioners in all forms of external administrations, as well as acting for parties involved in general commercial, financial services and trust disputes, and has been involved in many of the largest offshore disputes to come before the courts of the BVI and Cayman Islands in recent history.

He also has considerable experience advising on corporate governance matters, including in relation to the duties owed by directors and general partners, in addition advising more generally on the proper operation of investment funds and other offshore structures. Prior to relocating to Hong Kong in 2015, Shaun spent nine years practising in the Cayman Islands and in the British Virgin Islands and is one of only a few offshore practitioners in Hong Kong to have spent significant time living and working in each jurisdiction, and regularly appearing before their courts.

Shaun has been named a ‘leading lawyer’ in IFLR for more than 10 consecutive years and is ranked in all the major legal directories including Chambers & Partners, Legal 500 and Who’s Who Legal, and is regularly retained to provide expert evidence in proceedings before foreign courts and tribunals.

Shaun currently a member of the executive committee of the Restructuring and Insolvency Faculty, Hong Kong Institute of CPAs.

Professional Memberships

The American Bankruptcy Institute

INSOL International

Recovery and Insolvency Specialists Association in the Cayman Islands and BVI

Restructuring and Insolvency Faculty, Hong Kong Institute of CPAs

Industry Sector Expertise

Shareholder Disputes

Contractual Disputes

Distressed Funds

Claims against Auditors, Investment Managers and Advisors

Fraud and White Collar Crime

Claims Against Directors

Trust Litigation

Banking Litigation

Injunctions and Other Stand Alone/ Ancillary Relief

Disputes Concerning TIEAs and Notices to Produce

Appointment and Removal of Liquidators and Receivers

Asset Tracing

Preference and Other Avoidance Actions

Schemes of Arrangement and Re-Organisations

Enforcement of Security

Advising Liquidators and Receivers Generally

Advising Creditors and Other Stakeholders Generally

Cross Border Reorganisations and Parallel Proceedings