Adrian Francis > Maples Group > Tortola, British Virgin Islands > Lawyer Profile

Maples Group
RITTER HOUSE
PO BOX 173, ROAD TOWN
TORTOLA
VG1110
British Virgin Islands

Work Department

Dispute Resolution & Insolvency

Position

Adrian is a partner of Maples and Calder’s Dispute Resolution & Insolvency team in the Maples Group’s British Virgin Islands office.  He specializes in complex international commercial litigation and dispute resolution.  Adrian has considerable case management and advocacy experience at the interlocutory, trial and appellate levels, as well as in arbitration and mediation.

Career

Adrian joined the Maples Group in 2017, following a career spanning almost 30 years at the London Bar, where he specialised in commercial chancery litigation, company law, corporate / personal insolvency, civil fraud / asset tracing and trusts. Adrian has been recommended in the Legal 500 as a ‘Leading Individual’ and clients describe him as ‘a really safe pair of hands’.

Education

University College of Wales, Aberystwyth, LLB, 1986

Wadham College, University of Oxford, UK, BCL, 1987

Inns of Court School of Law, London, 1988

Lawyer Rankings

British Virgin Islands > Dispute resolution

(Leading partners)

Adrian FrancisMaples Group

Maples Group excels in insolvency and restructuring proceedings and also leverages the firm’s global network, particularly the Hong Kong office, to act for clients throughout Asia Pacific. Adrian Francis leads the department and is praised as ‘a safe pair of hands‘ for trials, appeals and arbitration proceedings. Also noted is Matthew Freeman, who is a trusted adviser for clients navigating intricate shareholder disputes and insolvency and restructuring matters, and counsel Stuart Rau, who focuses on banking litigation, while recently promoted of counsel Scott Tolliss handles a broad spectrum of disputes and restructuring engagements, often appearing before the Eastern Caribbean Court of Appeal and the Privy Council.