Collas Crill

Litigation and Dispute Resolution, Insolvency, Restructuring

Stuart is a Partner in the firm's BVI office. He is an offshore insolvency and dispute resolution specialist. He acts in insolvency, asset tracing, arbitration, and fund disputes (often multi-jurisdictional), in addition to general company, commercial and business disputes both in BVI and internationally.

Stuart is a barrister with more than 20 years' experience in disputes and insolvency related matters in BVI, England and Ireland, with a particular interest in arbitration.

He has acted in most of the biggest BVI-related insolvency disputes of the last decade and, before that, in cases including Landsbanki and BTA Bank v Ablyazov. Stuart was previously Managing Partner and head of dispute resolution at Dentons BVI and was one of Dentons' co-heads of insolvency and restructuring for the Latin America and Caribbean region.

Stuart qualified and started practice as a barrister in Dublin. He then moved to London for a decade, most of which was spent in independent practice in Chambers (33 Bedford Row and Thirteen Old Square, now Three Stone), but which also included spells working in the City as an employed barrister with Squire Sanders (on the Landsbanki insolvency) and Stephenson Harwood (JSC BTA Bank v Ablyazov).

Since moving to BVI he has developed considerable experience in asset recovery matters involving Latin American parties. He regularly appears as an advocate in the BVI Commercial Court and also in the Eastern Caribbean Court of Appeal.

Chancery Bar Association Commercial Bar Association INSOL Fellow of the Chartered Institute of Arbitrators