Insolvency & Restructuring

Campbells’ top-tier Insolvency and Restructuring team is widely recognised as a market leader, trusted on the largest and most complex matters. We act for insolvency professionals, creditors, investors and directors on windings-up and restructurings across companies, funds, partnerships and structured-finance entities. 

As part of our leading Dispute Resolution, Insolvency and Restructuring Group, we advise local and overseas insolvency professionals and a broad range of stakeholders, including creditors, investors, directors, and other professional service providers. We handle the full spectrum of Cayman and BVI wind-ups and restructurings, spanning companies, investment funds, limited partnerships, and structured finance structures. Clients choose us for a team with the depth, scale and experience to manage intensive, fast-moving processes, coordinate across jurisdictions, and deliver clear advice under pressure where outcomes and timelines matter. 

Campbells has particular depth of expertise in investment fund insolvencies – an area of increasing importance in the offshore market. As our representative cases demonstrate, Campbells has taken a lead or principal role in most of the landmark insolvency and restructuring matters in the Cayman Islands and is the first-choice firm for the insolvency and restructuring profession.

Our team is experienced in:

• Advising in relation to statutory demands
• Bringing and defending creditors’ winding up petitions
• Acting for debtors and creditors in distressed situations
• Debt restructuring and the appointment of restructuring officers
• Acting for official liquidators of companies and limited partnerships
• Acting for creditors in a liquidation, including for committees
• Cross-border insolvency proceedings
• Bringing and opposing applications to appoint provisional liquidators or receivers
• Just and equitable winding up petitions
• Advising voluntary liquidators

Our track record of achieving our clients’ objectives – in and out of court, commercially and cost-effectively – is unmatched. Our litigators have the experience and strength in depth to handle the most high-value and complex disputes, liquidations and restructurings, and our Hong Kong office provides 24-hour coverage when time-critical matters demand it.