Tony Heaver-Wren

Practice Areas

Dispute Resolution, Fund Disputes, Insolvency & Restructuring, Merger Disputes

Career

Tony Heaver-Wren is a Partner and Practice Group Head of the Dispute Resolution practice group in the Cayman Islands.

Before joining Appleby in 2008 Tony practised as a Senior Associate at leading firms in England and Australia.

Tony heads both the Insolvency and Restructuring and the Merger Disputes teams in Cayman. He has led teams in the most significant Cayman Islands corporate restructurings, appeared frequently as counsel in schemes of arrangement hearings and conducted numerous appraisal claim proceedings on behalf of dissenting shareholders following Chinese take-private statutory mergers. Tony also has extensive Fund Dispute experience, for stakeholders and managers and is involved in a number of disputes and restructurings in connection with digital assets.

Tony’s practice is richly diverse and he intersects frequently with colleagues on complex questions arising in Private Equity, M&A, Banking and Finance, Structured Finance and Fund Finance. His 28 years of experience includes advising major lenders, bondholders, insolvency officeholders, fund managers, investment fund shareholders and boards of private and publicly listed companies in all aspects of corporate governance, directors duties, minority shareholders’ rights, secured and unsecured creditor enforcements.

Tony has acted as an expert witness on numerous occasions, providing evidence of Cayman law to courts in the United States, Germany, Hong Kong and Australia, and to an arbitration tribunal in the People’s Republic of China.

Publications

The Cayman Islands restructuring officer regime comes into force on 31 August 2022

Cayman Courts Shift Toward More Efficient Case Management

Fun and Games Ahead? Possible Abuses of the New Cayman Restructuring Officer Regime

Restructuring & Insolvency: Cayman Islands

The need for insolvency fail-safe in Cayman

Recent Decisions from the Cayman Islands in Merger Valuation Disputes

Snapshot Petitions Report 2017

Cayman Court facilitates Chapter 11 restructuring of parent company of worldwide group

Decision in Re Harbinger Class PE holdings (Cayman) Ltd – a step forward for open-ended funds?

Cayman Court makes first fair value determination in merger dispute