Reputed for its expertise in shareholder disputes and insolvency matters, Appleby’s recent case load encompasses trust litigation and asset tracing. With over 25 years of contentious experience, Andrew Willins KC oversees the team, and he is skilled at professional negligence matters. Daniel Mitchell is often engaged in trust disputes, while Olwyn Barry is versed in cross-border fraud matters. Tamara Cameron and Fay O'Halloran are other key team members.
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Accolades
Client satisfaction
Testimonials
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- ‘They are incredibly commercial and responsive.’
- ‘They are one of the strongest restructuring and insolvency teams in the Caribbean. They are my go-to team.’
- ‘They are outstanding on aggressively fought disputes.’
- ‘They consistently provide strategic, commercially attuned advice, not limited to offshore matters, with pragmatic approaches that consider the commercial rationale and wider impacts for the business.’
- ‘Andrew Willins KC provides clear, well-informed, and practical advice on litigation strategies. He has a solid sense of the strengths and weaknesses of litigation options before the BVI courts.’
- ‘Andrew Willins KC is sensible, sharp, direct, commercial, and is able to spot good points and make them without flannel or fuss.’
Key clients
- Louis Dreyfus Commodities
- Multibank
- Gaving and Lanecraft
- Amicorp
- Hollysys
- Sanlam Trustees
- AO Alfa Bank
- Petrolin
- Lion Best Global Limited
- Rayley
- Tether
- Bitfinex
Work highlights
Represented a group of international commodities brokers in a significant billion-dollar piece of litigation brought by National Bank Trust, an entity controlled by the Russian Central Bank, which alleges that they were the recipients of fraudulent payments.
Represented Rana Al-Aggad in a significant piece of trusts and estates litigation, which resulted in a novel provisional liquidation of a dissolved foreign company.
Represented Multibank in sprawling litigation over 22 claims and appeals, with related litigation in three other jurisdictions, and obtained the striking out of claims and the discharge of injunctions on a second application.
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Practice head
Andrew Willins
Other key lawyers
Daniel Mitchell; Olwyn Barry; Tamara Cameron; Fay O'Halloran