Walkers has one of the largest commercial litigation and dispute resolution teams in the Cayman Islands. Colette and her colleagues can provide timely and expert assistance in connection with all aspects of civil litigation and insolvency and have considerable experience in connection with asset tracing, enforcement proceedings, commercial and corporate disputes and contentious banking and financial issues. Colette has been a partner at Walkers in the Cayman Islands since 2009. She practised as a barrister from chancery/commercial chambers in London for fifteen years before being admitted as an attorney in the Cayman Islands in 2005. Colette has extensive experience in high value and cross border commercial litigation, with a particular emphasis on disputes arising in connection with fraud, asset recovery, corporate governance, distressed investment vehicles and liquidations. Since 2009 Colette has been commended in the leading legal directories including Who”s Who Legal, Chambers Global and Legal 500. The strength of the Walkers asset recovery team is commended in the 2013 International Who”s Who of Asset Recovery Lawyers which noted that Colette “stands out as one of the most highly regarded individuals in the research. Recommended for her “pragmatic and solutions-oriented” approach, she earns “high praise” from her peers and clients”.

Established in 1964, Walkers is a leading International Financial Centre law firm, with a focus on corporate and international finance law. From our global network of eight offices, the firm offers a full range of legal services and delivers practical advice based on an in-depth knowledge of the legal, regulatory and commercial environment in the British Virgin Islands, Cayman Islands, Ireland and Jersey. Walkers has 54 partners and 365 staff worldwide.

Specialities: Commercial Litigation and Dispute Resolution, Compliance, Corporate, Crime, Employment, Finance (Asset Finance, Banking, Insurance Linked Securities, Regulatory, Restructuring and Structured Products and capital Markets), Insolvency and Corporate Recovery, Insurance, Investment Funds, Islamic Finance, Private Equity, Property , Taxation and Trusts.

Mahmood Awan is an Advocate of the Supreme Court of Pakistan and a leading asset recovery lawyer based in Islamabad, Pakistan.

Mahmood founded a boutique law firm specializing exclusively in civil fraud and private international law after receiving his LL.M in Banking and Finance at King”s College London in 2001. He has co-founded four law firms focusing primarily on white collar crimes, asset recovery and cybercrimes in Pakistan. He is currently the senior partner at Mahmood Awan & Partners in Islamabad and Awan Seerat Tirmizi in Lahore and Karachi, Pakistan.

Mahmood has extensive experience in enforcement of foreign judgments and has acted as primary Counsel for the liquidators of Bank of Credit and Commerce International in multi-jurisdictional legal proceedings to recover misappropriated funds. He has advised Stock Exchanges or investors on several cases of fraud by brokerage firms since 2001. He has advised the country’s largest E&P company among other clients including Pakistan LNG Terminals Limited.

Mahmood has been advising energy sector clients since 2002 and has represented Oil and Gas Development Company Limited as its primary Counsel in several highly complex litigated matters before all five High Courts in Pakistan. He acts as an arbitrator and has also advised and represented clients on matters before regulatory authorities.

Leading teams of lawyers in Islamabad, Lahore and Karachi, Mahmood is recognized for his expertise in design and delivery of efficient solutions to complex litigation in a jurisdiction popularly perceived as highly unpredictable in matters of scheduling trials and other proceedings.

Mahmood has appeared as an expert witness before Senate Standing Committee on Finance, advised the Board of Islamabad Stock Exchange, been a Securities and Exchange Commission of Pakistan nominee on the Governing Board of the then Lahore Stock Exchange and has worked extensively on prevention of fraud in capital market operations since 1995.

Jonathan Wild has extensive experience in obtaining interlocutory relief including freezing and disclosure orders and in relation to the appointment of Receivers to safeguard recoverable assets.

The Dispute Resolution Department is also experianeced in co-ordinating multijurisdictional applications and working with foreign Counsel in relation to the timing and structure of such multijurisdictional tracing claims.

Jonathan has also advised Court appointed Receivers and is experienced in applying to the Court in relation to the appointment of Receivers to investigate allegations of fraud and asset tracing. Jonathan currently represents a party involved in a major international telecoms dispute including allegations of fraud and a US$415 million injunction – the case involves multiple jurisdictions and an interlocutory matter has already been heard by the Privy Council Bitel v Kyrgyz Mobil & Ors. Jonathan also currently represents the Receivers in the case of LM Moore Investments v SV Company & Ors which concerns a US$100million dispute involving a major vodka and brandy global distributor.

Jonathan also advised the local Regulator, the Financial Supervision Commission, and represented them on a number of occasions, notably in connection with Financial Supervision Commission v Law Investments Limited & Ors regarding multiple forced liquidations further to an alleged US$250million fraud.

Jonathan is also experienced in advising both local and multinational companies in relation to internal fraud and crime and dealing with both the asset recovery implications and the regulatory implications. Of interest he is also acting for a party in a significant European Law case which has implications concerning the extent and application of European Law on the Island.

Callin Wild can trace its partnership roots back well over 100 years and employs in excess of 40 staff. It offers a full service practice on the Island focusing on fraud and asset recovery and commercial multijurisdictional disputes. It also has a strong corporate and commercial department which provides services to many local and international corporate clients.

Callin Wild offers both contentious and non contentious advice to trustees and beneficiaries. We operate in a jurisdiction which has sophisticated regulation affecting the provision of business services including modern Trust legislation which includes mandatory licensing for tho persons and companies offering trustee services.

Callin Wild also has considerable experience in working in larger teams in multinational disputes and is instructed in the many of the larger complex contentious disputes currently before the Isle of Man Courts.

Dispute Resolution – Regulatory Advisory.

Fletcher is a Partner in the Litigation Department at Callin Wild and advises clients on various aspects of commercial litigation including complex litigious matters, fraud and asset tracing, injunctive relief and both on Island and cross-border insolvency. Fletcher also has an interest in employment law and provides professional and efficient advice in respect of both contentious and non-contentious employment issues.

In addition to adversarial work Fletcher has experience in resolving claims through negotiation and mediation. In recognising that litigation can prove stressful and demanding, Fletcher provides a common-sense approach to resolving disputes in a professional yet approachable manner.

Legal 500 describe Fletcher as ‘tough and thorough’ and being one of Callin Wild’s litigation experts ‘who distills complex issues to simple key points’. Fletcher gained praise in Legal 500 for having a ‘depth of knowledge and pragmatic approach to dispute resolution make him a standout lawyer. Clients enjoy working with him and above all else he achieves results. You want Fletcher on your team.

Fletcher Craine is a Notary Public and Commissioner for Oaths.

Maria Costa Passarella is a founding partner of Costa Passarella & Accioly Advogados Associados. She is a Brazilian lawyer with 23 years of practice and with experience in the Brazilian’s Superior Courts and Supreme Court. She has been a lawyer for the largest Brazilian public company for 14 years. Maria is member of Legal Hackers Brasilia, a global movement born in 2012 in New York City, of lawyers, legislators, designers, technologists, and academics that explores and develops creative solutions around different issues that intersect law and technology. She is a Counselor of Casa Thomas Jefferson, a binational American-Brazilian cultural center in Brazil.

Babajide Ogundipe was called to the Nigeria Bar in July 1979. He co-founded Sofunde, Osakwe, Ogundipe & Belgorein 1988, and the firm quickly became one the leading law firms in Lagos, the commercial capital of Nigeria. He practices primarily as a commercial litigator and, as part of this practice, he has been required, since 1980, to conduct investigations into various different types of fraud and other misconduct on behalf of clients in the banking, insurance, petroleum, pharmaceutical and shipping industries. He has also acted on behalf of numerous clients to assist in the recovery of assets lost as a result of fraud and other misfeasance, most significantly the former majority shareholders of Banco Noroeste S.A., following that bank’s acquisition by Banco Santander Brasil. He has enormous experience acting for the victims of fraud, and has come to be recognised as one of Nigeria’s leading lawyers in the asset recovery field. He is a frequent speaker on arbitration, anti-corruption and asset recovery issues and on the regulation of the legal profession at international conferences and has served as an officer of the International Bar Association’s Anti-Corruption Committee and Vice-Chair for Africa on the IBA’s Regulation of Lawyers” Compliance Committee.