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Associate. Janeen has more than 15 years of experience in the financial services industry in the Cayman Islands. She is also a qualified attorney at law, licensed to practice in both the Cayman Islands and New York State. Janeen has a broad practice advising clients on various transactional matters, as well as private client estate and succession planning. Additionally, she advises on various regulatory and local licencing matters and has acted as an independent director on a wide range of alternative investment funds. Previously, Janeen has advised on the relocation of a ultra HNW family office to Cayman advising on all Regulatory and Estate Planning aspects.

Senior Associate. Kirsten is a Senior Associate in the Insolvency and Corporate Disputes team, currently on secondment in our Cayman office. She advises clients on contentious matters in various areas of law, including contractual disputes, torts and general commercial disputes. Kirsten also advises on dispute prevention and risk mitigation measures, such as effective contract drafting and negotiation, and alternative dispute resolution mechanisms. She has a particular focus on securing the best solution in the circumstances, whether through litigation or otherwise. Kirsten has a keen interest in the development of the law in relation to financial technology, especially blockchain and other distributed ledger technology. She advises clients on how fintech can be integrated into dispute resolution mechanisms, and on the resolution of disputes within the sphere.

Nicholas Batten

Senior Associate. Nick joined Collas Crill in 2024. He is an experienced commercial litigator who has acted for a mix of public companies, large private corporations and high net worth individuals in the Federal Court of Australia and State Supreme Courts. Nick has nine years' post-admission experience working as a Senior Associate at Herbert Smith Freehills' litigation team in Melbourne. Prior to that, he worked at the boutique litigation firm Arnold Bloch Liebler and before that at MinterEllison in Australia. Nick has experience acting for both Australian and US subsidiaries of Bayer in relation to alleged carcinogenicity of glyphosate-based products in Federal Court of Australia, as well as acting for a 'Big Four' Australian bank and (separately) ASX100 public.

Partner and Local Practice Head of the Real Estate team in the Cayman Islands. Gina’s brand of excellence is well known especially in the Cayman Islands, which she has called home for more than 20 years. She maintains an unblemished reputation for accurately getting the job done, listening to and caring for her clients, seamlessly navigating tight timelines, bringing additional value to transactions and exceeding clients’ expectations. Gina’s breadth of experience includes conveyancing and real property law, probate and estate administration, planning and development law, corporate and commercial law. She represents many of Cayman’s “Class A” banks and also conducts a full real estate practice servicing a wide range of international and local clients. Gina is ranked in Band 2 in Chambers and Partners and recognised as a Leading Individual in Legal 500 2024. She was ranked as Recommended in Who's Who Legal (WWL) in 2024.

Partner. Rocco leads Collas Crill's market-leading s.238 merger appraisal team and is a highly sought after and trusted advisor to shareholders in merger appraisal disputes. His clients include some of the world's leading investment managers and institutional shareholders. Rocco has unparalleled experience and expertise in merger appraisal litigation and has acted for shareholders in most of the major cases, including 51job, Inc., New Frontier Health Corporation, SINA Corporation, 58.com Limited, Changyou.com Ltd, eHi Car Services Ltd, Bitauto Holdings Limited, China Biologic Products Holdings, Inc., Nord Anglia Education, iKang Healthcare Group, Qunar Cayman Islands Ltd, Zhaopin Limited, and Kongzhong Corporation. He has also advised shareholders on numerous other Cayman Islands mergers which have not proceeded to litigation. Rocco regularly advises shareholders of Cayman Islands companies on a range of matters including disputes against investment funds, derivative actions, and just and equitable winding ups involving minority oppression. Rocco also regularly acts as Cayman Islands counsel in respect of United States securities actions brought by shareholders against Cayman Islands companies. In addition to his shareholder disputes practice, Rocco has a busy insolvency and commercial litigation practice. He acts for creditors, Cayman Islands liquidators and US SEC-appointed receivers.

Partner. Chantelle has extensive experience with various investment fund structures, including hedge funds, private equity funds, technology and venture capital funds, cryptocurrency funds, segregated portfolio companies and unit trusts. She has worked on a variety of corporate matters including joint ventures, SPACs, corporate restructurings, mergers and acquisitions and migrations. She also advises on regulatory matters, including data protection, economic substance, beneficial ownership, FATCA/CRS, VASP and fintech matters, as well as CIMA enforcement matters for corporate service providers.

Partner. Matthew is a Partner in the Insolvency and Corporate Disputes team and is based in the Cayman Islands specialising in high-value and high-profile cross-border commercial litigation, insolvency and restructuring. Matthew has particular expertise in complex cross-border insolvencies and restructurings and regularly advises and represents liquidators and stakeholders in relation to contentious and non-contentious matters, including seeking court assistance for foreign insolvency proceedings. He has regularly advised financial institutions in relation to fraud and asset recovery matters (including obtaining urgent relief such as freezing injunctions and disclosure orders). Prior to moving to Cayman in 2013, Matthew practiced for a number of years as a Barrister in England and Wales, with a focus on complex trust, insolvency and property disputes. He has extensive advocacy experience, having regularly appeared in the High Court and the Court of Appeal. Matthew is listed as a recommended lawyer in Legal 500 2024 and in Band 5 in Chambers and Partners.

Associate. Tom is an Associate in the Insolvency and Corporate Disputes team in Cayman. He joined Collas Crill in 2024 and was admitted as an Attorney in the Cayman Islands in September 2024. Tom has experience in advising clients across a wide range of contentious matters, including large-scale litigation, insolvency proceedings, regulatory investigations and prosecutions, commissions of inquiry and alternative dispute resolution.

Associate. Ciara is an Associate in the Insolvency and Corporate Disputes team in Cayman. Her practice includes commercial litigation across a wide range of financial and commercial disputes relating to investment funds, commercial contracts, economic valuation, shareholder agreements, breaches of director duties and cross-border insolvency. Ciara was awarded the The Recovery and Insolvency Specialists Association (RISA) Rising Star Award in 2021.

Matthew Harders

Senior Associate. Matthew is a highly skilled commercial litigation attorney with a focus on insolvency, restructuring, and debt recovery. He joined Collas Crill's Insolvency and Corporate Disputes team as a Senior Associate in October 2024 and is based in the Cayman Islands. Matthew has substantial experience in all aspects of insolvency, restructuring, financial services and general commercial litigation practice, including complex contractual disputes, shareholder disputes, trusts and trust management, urgent and interlocutory injunctions, winding up and bankruptcy petitions, restructuring and schemes of arrangement, asset recovery, secured and unsecured debt recovery and security enforcement. Matthew practiced in Australia for more than five years before moving to the Cayman Islands in 2023. Previously a Senior Associate in the Insolvency and Litigation team of Thomson Geer Lawyers, Matthew was the only solicitor within Thomson Geer engaged directly by upper management to recover debts owed to the Firm on a national basis, successfully recovering hundreds of thousands of dollars owed to the Firm, slashing the Firm's Bad Debts liability.

Partner. Zachary is an experienced offshore litigator with significant experience in trusts and financial services litigation, section 238 'fair value' appraisal proceedings and professional indemnity/insurance litigation.Zachary is also experienced in advising and assisting financial institutions that are the subject of regulatory investigations and proposed enforcement actions, and in advising trustees, beneficiaries, settlors, enforcers and protectors in relation to non-contentious and semi-contentious trust matters. Prior to joining Collas Crill, Zachary spent 10 years at another leading offshore law firm in both Guernsey and the Cayman Islands. He has completed the STEP advanced certificate in trust disputes, and has been recognised as 'one to watch' by the prestigious Private Client Global Elite in both 2019 and 2020.

Stephen Leontsinis

Stephen is Managing Partner in the Cayman Islands and the Global Head of the Insolvency and Corporate Disputes team. He has a demonstrated history of advocacy in the practice of corporate and commercial litigation, with an emphasis on offshore insolvency and restructuring of companies. Stephen's practice has a strong focus on company law including corporate insolvency; schemes of arrangements; capital reductions; shareholder disputes; director's liability; international asset tracing; the enforcement of foreign judgments; worldwide Mareva injunctions, Anton Piller orders, and Norwich Pharmacal orders. Stephen has significant contentious litigation experience arising from the representation of both liquidators, shareholders and creditors of companies and hedge funds including the claw back of fraudulent conveyances and undue preferences, allegations of investment fraud and investment manager disputes. Since he began heading up our team of Cayman litigators, Stephen has grown the team from two to eight lawyers, all with a strong background in insolvency and restructuring matters. Prior to joining the firm Stephen spent two and a half years in Miami as a member of a boutique litigation firm in the United States which focused on cross border insolvency and trust disputes.

Associate. Dawn is an Associate in the Insolvency and Corporate Disputes team in Cayman, having joined Collas Crill in September 2019.

Andrew is a Partner in our Cayman team. Andrew has extensive experience in complex commercial litigation, with a focus on contentious and non-contentious trust and estate disputes, many of which have a multi-jurisdictional element. He regularly acts for trustees, settlors, protectors, enforcers and beneficiaries and he also advises on regulatory matters.

Shaela is Counsel in the Cayman team.

Harry Rasmussen

Counsel. Harry is an offshore litigator with experience in managing high-profile, high-value, complex commercial disputes, including through to trial. He specialises in shareholder disputes, including s.238 'fair value' appraisal proceedings. Harry has more than a decade's experience managing complex cross-border litigation, including high-profile insolvency and restructuring mandates. Routinely acting for the world's pre-eminent investment managers and institutional shareholders, he is a leading and trusted advisor to clients dealing with s.238 merger appraisal disputes and has acted on the most prominent and high-value matters to come before the Cayman courts. Harry's experience includes advising the largest ever group of dissenting shareholders litigating the c.$9billion privatisation of 58.com; and the largest body of dissenting shareholders in the matter of Nord Anglia, successfully securing hundreds of millions of dollars at trial. Before moving to the Cayman Islands, Harry worked in England at some of the world's largest law firms, focussing on risk management, litigation, and investigations for household-name commercial clients, governments, and local authorities. He joined Collas Crill in 2024. Harry is listed by Legal 500 2020 as a 'key lawyer'. He is presently engaged on several multi-billion-dollar s.238 appraisal disputes proceedings through the Cayman court. Harry is conversant with the key principles underpinning expert valuation and has successfully completed the Harvard (online) Certificate in Financial Analysis and Valuation for Lawyers.

Annalisa Shibli

Counsel. Annalisa is a Counsel in the Insolvency and Corporate Disputes team in Cayman. She has a broad practice covering commercial litigation, cross-border insolvency and restructuring. Her experience includes work on high-value fraud and asset tracing claims, the enforcement of foreign arbitral awards and shareholder disputes. She regularly advises limited partners, shareholders, directors and fund managers on insolvency-related matters.

Natascha Steiner-Smith

Counsel. Natascha has a wide range of experience in commercial litigation and international arbitration. Her practice is focused on complex multi-jurisdictional disputes arising out of commercial contracts, shareholders agreements as well as disputes involving financial institutions and high net-worth individuals. She regularly advises shareholders, insolvency practitioners, banks and energy companies in cross-border proceedings. Natascha also has experience acting in section 238 fair value appraisal proceedings.

Senior Associate. Alistair is a real estate lawyer providing both commercial and residential advice across a wide range of matters including acquisitions and disposals, insolvency, development funding and lettings. He is experienced in acting for developers, administrators, investors, lenders, landlords and tenant. Alistair has more than 10 years' experience in the real estate sector. Originally based in the UK, Alistair worked at DWF and then Shoosmiths acting for a wide range of clients managing transactions between £200k to £20m+ including a large number of Yorkshire-based private rental sector schemes.