Appleby

Corporate

Partner

Lalita Vaswani is a Partner in Appleby’s corporate practice group. She qualified as a barrister in London and practiced at a leading firm in the Eastern Caribbean before joining Appleby in 2017.

Lalita advises on complex cross-border restructuring and insolvency matters. She regularly acts for distressed companies, creditors, regulators, investors and insolvency practitioners across a myriad of sectors including energy, insurance, real estate, technology and finance.

Lalita has special expertise in large-scale reorganizations. She leads the Bermuda voluntary liquidation practice and regularly accepts appointments as liquidator on solvent liquidations. She also advises on mergers and acquisitions (and in particular, privatization schemes of arrangement).

Legal500 has recognized Lalita for “her pragmatic and diligent approach”, “attention to detail of the facts presented on client engagements”, “providing straightforward advice” and commended her as “highly dedicated, practical and intelligent” as well as “personable and approachable”.

She has been involved in many major cross-border restructurings including Noble Group, Seadrill, Digicel, GCX and Floatel.

During her tenure in the Caribbean, she was a leading advisor to the judicial managers of British American Insurance Company Limited and CLICO Barbados Limited, the custodian of Bancafe International Bank and the bankruptcy trustee for the Harlequin Group.

Lalita has a strong background in commercial litigation and previously appeared before the Bermuda, Barbados and Eastern Caribbean Supreme Courts as well as the Bermuda Court of Appeal. She is a member of INSOL and a founding member of the Bermuda Chapter for International Women’s Insolvency & Restructuring Confederation.

Lalita read Law in England at the University of Warwick and the London School of Economics and Political Science. For her vocational education, she attended the College of Law in England where she obtained a Post-Graduate Diploma in Legal Practice and the Hugh Wooding Law School in Trinidad where she obtained a Certificate of Legal Education.

She has been called to the Bars of England and Wales, Barbados, Saint Lucia and Saint Vincent and the Grenadines.

The University of Warwick (England) The London School of Economics and Political Science (England) The College of Law (England) Hugh Wooding Law School, The University of the West Indies (Trinidad)