Paul is a partner in our Litigation, Insolvency & Restructuring Group, based in the Cayman Islands office. He has particular expertise in complex cross-border disputes relating to funds and other offshore structures, asset recovery claims and fraud investigations and in breach of duty claims in relation to the managers, auditors, administrators and custodians of investment vehicles. Paul is one of the leading experts in the Cayman Islands on sanctions and asset freezing measures affecting offshore assets and has also written and spoken extensively on cross-border litigation and insolvency matters.
Notable instructions include: acting for funds and their directors in defending claims of breaches of economic sanctions; representing Brazilian judicial administrator in relation to major asset recovery claims against a Cayman trust; advising the liquidators of a vast multinational group which siphoned Latin American investments into a US$300m+ Ponzi scheme; acting for a Swiss bank intervening before the Privy Council in a dispute over a $490m distribution waterfall from the Madoff estate; acting for Ernst & Young Cayman in resisting an application for disclosure of documents brought by the liquidators of a former audit client.