Collas Crill

Litigation and Dispute Resolution

Justina is a Partner specialising in complex, cross-border litigation and arbitration. She has particular expertise in corporate insolvency, shareholder and partnership disputes, civil fraud, asset recovery and enforcement, banking and finance and fund disputes,  and digital assets disputes.

Prior to moving to the Cayman Islands, Justina practised as a commercial chancery barrister based in London (call 2010). Her instructions often involved novel points of law and multiple jurisdictions.

Before training as a barrister, Justina was an international investment banker, working with top-ranked corporate finance teams on complex transactions for years. This, together with her economics degrees (Oxford, LSE), gives her a high level of financial acumen and familiarity with financial products. This experience has proven invaluable across her practice areas.

Justina is widely recognised as one of the world’s leading experts in digital assets-related matters. In addition to working on various high-profile digital assets litigation matters, while at the English Bar she co-drafted the ground-breaking DIFC Digital Assets Law and Law of Security.

Justina was awarded 'Commercial Junior of the Year 2025 (English Bar in the Middle East)' (Legal 500) and was also nominated for 'Technology, Data and Crypto Junior of the Year' in both 2023 and 2024 (Legal 500).

Justina’s publications include: Laws of the DIFC (LexisNexis) (on Digital Assets Law), and co-author; Lissack & Horlick on Bribery (on Digital Assets) (forthcoming); Credit Suisse, AT1 bonds and taking the BIT between the teeth (2023) 5 JIBFL 293; LIBOR transition: ISDA Protocol first mover disadvantage and other international perspectives (2021) 1 JIBFL 5; The UK’s announcement of plans for synthetic LIBOR: panacea or pandora’s box? (2020) 8 JIBFL 517; A deep dive into the moratorium – a lender’s perspective.