Iain Tucker
Partner
About
Iain is a partner in our Litigation, Insolvency & Restructuring Group, based in the British Virgin Islands office. He advises on contentious commercial work, focusing on international insolvency and corporate and fraud-related litigation.
As a member of our Insolvency & Dispute Resolution Group, he has extensive experience of complex, high-value cross-border disputes and proceedings. Iain regularly acts for clients based in North America, China and East Asia.
Iain has particular expertise in helping clients with freezing orders and other urgent injunctive relief, often in support of proceedings in overseas courts or international arbitration proceedings. He also has significant experience in crypto and De-Fi related disputes and insolvency. He is an experienced advocate and has appeared in the British Virgin Islands Commercial Court (often as lead advocate), the Eastern Caribbean Supreme Court, Court of Appeal and the Privy Council.
Experience
- Commercial litigation
- Corporate disputes
- Shareholder litigation and arbitration
- Crypto and De-Fi related disputes and insolvency
- Civil fraud & asset tracing
- Recognition and enforcement of judgments and awards
- Protective injunctive and other ancillary relief
- Insolvency and Restructuring
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Work highlights
(*prior to joining Campbells)
- Advising the Joint Liquidators of FTX Digital Markets in relation to arbitration proceedings to recover tokens.
- Acting in Canadian arbitration proceedings in a dispute relating to buy-out rights and valuation issues among founders in a de-fi company.
- Acting for a creditor in the Three Arrows Capital Limited liquidation in relation to a $200 million claim for alleged unfair preference arising from the appropriation of collateral.
- Acting in many matters involving third party disclosure and Norwich Pharmacal
- Acting for the defendants in Caldicott Worldwide vs Siong Beng Seng & Oths in unfair prejudice litigation, the leading British Virgin Islands case on the interaction between statutory rights among shareholders and arbitration provisions in Articles of Association relating to company claims.
- Acting in the British Virgin Islands for JSC Privat Bank to secure freezing injunctions in support of English litigation to recover over US$3 billion in assets and costs.
- Acting for Tristan Oil Ltd on a major British Virgin Islands scheme of arrangement to restructure liabilities under New York issued bonds, and associated challenges to the restructuring in the British Virgin Islands and the Southern District of New York by the Republic of Kazakhstan.
- Acting for the claimant in Industrial Bank Financial & Oths v Xing Libin, the leading British Virgin Islands case on the recognition and enforcement via British Virgin Islands-appointed equitable execution receivers of PRC judgments against the defendant.
- Acting for the claimant in IKON Shina Ltd v Smyshliaeva, a leading British Virgin Islands case on the recognition in the British Virgin Islands for the benefit of a creditor of a judgment arising from Russian bankruptcy proceedings under the Russian law principle of subsidiary liability of contributories of an insolvent Russian company.
- Acting in the substantial and long-running Emmerson v Renova litigation.
- Acting in the long-running multi-billion dollar Cukurova Finance International Ltd v Alfa Telecom Turkey Ltd litigation relating to the control of Turkcell, Turkey’s largest mobile telephone operator, the leading case on the application of rights to appropriate financial collateral, and associated litigation and arbitration relating to Finnish telecoms company, TeliaSonera Finland OYJ.
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Qualifications and admissions
- England and Wales (non-practicing)
- British Virgin Islands
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Professional associations
- RISA (BVI chapter of INSOL)
- BVI Bar Association