Caroline has substantial experience in complex, high profile and multi-jurisdictional disputes, and white collar crime investigations.

Caroline successfully defended John Mason in the recent high profile case of SFO v GPT, Cook & Mason, in which we defeated allegations of international bribery and corruption following a 10 year investigation and prosecution. She has also defended corporate clients in the $9 billion AHAB / SAAD fraud litigation in which she was granted limited admission to the Cayman bar and which featured the Cayman Islands’ longest ever fraud trial. She also successfully defended Guy Colegate, a former employee of a Shell subsidiary from high-profile allegations of bribery and corruption in Nigeria before the Milan Court of Appeal

Overview

Annalisa is a Senior Associate in the Dispute Resolution team in Cayman. She has a broad practice covering commercial litigation, cross-border insolvency and restructuring. Her experience includes work on high value fraud and asset tracing claims, the enforcement of foreign arbitral awards and shareholder disputes. She regularly advises limited partners, shareholders, directors and fund managers on insolvency related matters.

Experience

Annalisa was admitted as an attorney in the Cayman Islands in 2014, following which she practiced as an associate at Walkers both in the Cayman Islands and Hong Kong.

Background

Annalisa obtained an LLB with Honours from Durham University and went on to complete the LPC at the University of Law in Manchester, before returning to the Cayman Islands to train as an Articled Clerk with Walkers.

Memberships

INSOL International Cayman Islands Legal Practitioners' Association

International Women's Insolvency & Restructuring Confederation (IWIRC)

Annalisa is also a Cayman Islands Notary Public

Overview

Annalisa is a Senior Associate in the Dispute Resolution team in Cayman. She has a broad practice covering commercial litigation, cross-border insolvency and restructuring. Her experience includes work on high value fraud and asset tracing claims, the enforcement of foreign arbitral awards and shareholder disputes. She regularly advises limited partners, shareholders, directors and fund managers on insolvency related matters.

Experience

Annalisa was admitted as an attorney in the Cayman Islands in 2014, following which she practiced as an associate at Walkers both in the Cayman Islands and Hong Kong.

Background

Annalisa obtained an LLB with Honours from Durham University and went on to complete the LPC at the University of Law in Manchester, before returning to the Cayman Islands to train as an Articled Clerk with Walkers.

Memberships

INSOL International Cayman Islands Legal Practitioners' Association

International Women's Insolvency & Restructuring Confederation (IWIRC)

Annalisa is also a Cayman Islands Notary Public

Jessica specialises in commercial chancery litigation, with a particular focus on insolvency, property and commercial disputes. She is an experienced advocate who appears regularly in the High Court, and is frequently instructed in matters which are of a complex or urgent nature. Before coming to the Bar Jessica read Jurisprudence at Brasenose College, Oxford, and obtained an LLM in Corporate Law from University College London.

Natalie has expertise in litigation and arbitration involving banking and financial services, insolvency, trust, contractual, partnership, shareholder and commercial disputes.  She has a particular specialism in fraud and asset recovery and has acted on some high profile Russian and CIS cases.  She has worked on multi-jurisdictional asset tracing cases, including obtaining extensive Worldwide Freezing, Search, Disclosure and Passport Surrender Orders in one of Russia’s biggest ever alleged bank frauds.

Natalie is on the list of Supervising Solicitors and has hands on experience of working on highly contested search orders involving multiple parties.  She recently assisted the Civil Procedure Rules Committee with the drafting of the new precedent Imaging Order.

Natalie typically advises on cases involving fraud, breach of trust, deceit, misrepresentation and conspiracy.  She has acted for a wide range of international clients ranging from insolvency practitioners, a pension provider subject to a pensions’ liberation fraud, creditors of a ponzi scheme, minority shareholders in a large high street brand, an investment bank, a commodities trading entity, to state appointed liquidators of banks in significant claims to recover proceeds of fraud.  Cases often have an international element and involve interim relief applications, jurisdiction challenges, enforcement of awards/orders and asset tracing.

Background

Natalie qualified as a lawyer in England and Wales in 2005 having obtained an LLB Law with German Law Hons from King’s College London and her LPC (distinction) from the College of Law.  She trained and qualified at SJ Berwin LLP.  She has worked in the litigation teams at Lawrence Graham LLP, Signature Litigation LLP and Taylor Wessing LLP.  She joined civil fraud boutique PCB Litigation LLP (which subsequently became PCB Byrne) and was made up to partner in 2019.  Natalie joined Cooke, Young and Keidan LLP in April 2022.

What the legal directories say

The Legal 500 (2022) edition recognises Natalie as a Next Generation Partner in Civil Fraud and Commercial Litigation and recommends her for Banking Litigation.

The Legal 500 describes Natalie as “a hard working, knowledgeable and client oriented practitioner”, “personable, professional and user friendly”, “great to work with, always on top of the detail” and as “a junior partner who is one to watch. Great management of the case team and extremely good at telling the client how it is”.  She is “known for [her] strategic thinking and [is] client-oriented” and has “excellent control of her cases and is an excellent leader”.

In The Legal 500 2020 edition, Natalie is identified as a key lawyer for civil fraud and in the 2021 edition, she is also identified as a key lawyer for Commercial Litigation and Banking Litigation and is described as “creative in approach [with] excellent client communication”.

Professional groups

Natalie is Honorary Secretary of the London Solicitors Litigation Association and is on the Founding Committee for next generation practitioners for Thought Leaders4 Disputes and the IWIRC European Networks Steering Committee.

Her professional memberships include the Law Society of England and Wales, Commercial Fraud Lawyers Association, Thought Leaders4 FIRE and RAIIDAR International (Recovering Assets, Insolvency, Investigations, Disputes and Restructuring).

Publications, articles and seminars

Natalie is a member of Lexis PSL’s Case Analysis Expert Panel on Dispute Resolution and regularly writes case summaries for that publication.  She is co-editor of the England and Wales chapter of “Enforcement of Foreign Judgments”.  She is actively involved in responding to legal consultations for the LSLA.

She has had numerous speaking engagements including the annual ABA/RAA Conference on the resolution of CIS-related disputes, The Law Society’s English Law Week in Russia and on numerous Thought Leaders4 webinars.