Mr Andrew Willins > Appleby > Tortola, British Virgin Islands > Lawyer Profile
Appleby Offices
JAYLA PLACE, WICKHAM'S CAY 1
PO BOX 3190, ROAD TOWN
TORTOLA, VG1110
British Virgin Islands
- Firm Profile
- Go to...
Mr Andrew Willins
Work Department
Dispute Resolution
Position
Partner and Group Head
Career
Andrew Willins is a Partner and Group Head of the Dispute Resolution department in the British Virgin Islands. He has over 20 years experience as an advocate, drawn from his time at the Chancery Bar in London and, since 2008, in the British Virgin Islands. He has particular experience in insolvency litigation, shareholders´ disputes and in complex commercial litigation, including professional negligence and cross-border fraud and asset tracing claims.
He has appeared in some capacity or other in many of the major insolvency disputes of the last decade, including Pioneer (for the Liquidators) Fairfield Sentry (for redeeming creditors), Peak Hotels & Resorts Ltd (for the Liquidators), Boston Life & Annuity Company (for the Liquidators), China Fisheries (for Maybank), Unicorn Worldwide (for the Liquidators) Luckin Coffee (for creditors) and he is one of a handful of advocates with meaningful experience in state immunity issues and the enforcement of investment treaty awards. He successfully defeated a strike out application on non-justiciability grounds in Congo Mineral Developments, and successfully represented Pakistan International Airlines in a $5.976bn attempt to enforce an ICSID award over its assets and is currently advising or representing a number of other sovereign states.
Languages
English
Memberships
Personal
Lawyer Rankings
British Virgin Islands > Dispute resolution
(Leading individuals)Appleby leverages the firm’s global network of offices to handle a broad spectrum of cross-jurisdictional disputes and remains a key name in the BVI market for shareholder disputes and insolvency issues; it is also active in asset tracing and trust litigation. At the helm of the team is ‘extremely clever’ Andrew Willins, a seasoned practitioner with a strong reputation in insolvency, asset tracing and fraud work. Olwyn Barry excels in insolvency proceedings, debt enforcement work and commercial disputes, cementing her position as a notable figure in these areas, while associate Laure-Astrid Wigglesworth focuses on international litigation. Adding to the group’s strength, the firm welcomed Dan Mitchell in July 2023, who made the move from Ogier, further enhancing the team’s capabilities in the insolvency and cryptocurrency spaces.
Lawyer Rankings
- Leading individuals British Virgin Islands > Dispute resolution
- Dispute resolution British Virgin Islands