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Partner
Appleby
| Cayman
Islands |
| Clifton
House |
75 Fort
Street
PO Box 190 |
| Grand
Cayman KY1-1104 |
Cayman
Islands
| Area
of Practice |
| Commercial
Dispute Resolution |
| Trust
& Estate Litigation |
| Fund
Disputes |
| Fraud
Litigation |
| Asset
Tracing |
| Negligence
Claims |
| Banking
Litigation |
| Arbitration
& Mediation |
| Education |
| University
of Oxford (England) |
| Admissions |
| British
Virgin Islands, 2005 |
| Cayman
Islands, Attorney-at-Law, 1997 |
| Bar
of England & Wales, 1995 |
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Litigation
& Insolvency
Jeremy Walton is a Partner in the Litigation Practice
Group, the Local Team Leader for Commercial Dispute
Resolution, and is Head of the firm’s Fund Disputes
team. He specialises in international commercial
litigation, including: directors’ and shareholders’
disputes; insolvency work, including the dissolution of
commercial joint ventures and the dismantling of
corporate structures; asset-tracing and recovery work,
often as part of cross-border and multi-jurisdictional
litigation; and disputes in relation to both family and
commercial trusts.
Clients and legal practitioners interviewed in the 2007
edition of ‘Chambers Global’ describe Jeremy’s
style as follows: “In insurance, funds and trust
disputes Jeremy demonstrates the ability to get on top
of complex cases and give a clear view of how he thinks
things will play out in the Cayman courts. His forceful
and innovative approach finds favour with
interviewees”. In the 2006 edition, they were quoted
as saying: “Jeremy Walton’s tenacious approach is
popular with overseas lawyers”.
Jeremy has been ranked in various international legal
publications, with the most recent being Chambers Global
(2004 - 2007) for Dispute Resolution and Litigation:
General Commercial, and PLC Which Lawyer? (2007) for
Restructuring & Insolvency and Dispute Resolution
(2007-2008).
Jeremy became an Attorney-at-Law in the Cayman Islands
in 1997. He joined the Group in 1998 after two years
with another Cayman Islands firm. In 2005, he was called
to the British Virgin Islands Bar.
Jeremy is an author and contributor to PLC’s
Cross-Border Handbook on Dispute Resolution, Trusts
& Trustees, Mondaq and International Law Office. He
is a Member of the Cayman Islands Law Society, the Bar
of England and Wales, the Honourable Society of
Lincoln’s Inn, the Chartered Institute of Arbitrators,
the Civil Mediation Council and the Association of
Contentious Trust and Probate Specialists. Jeremy is
also an accredited mediator.
Representative Work
Jeremy is an experienced advocate, with a large number
of reported cases in the Grand Court, the Court of
Appeal and the Privy Council in London. He has conducted
cases of considerable commercial and financial
significance for an array of international clients.
Examples include:
• Representing a mutual fund manager in a dispute with
Morgan Stanley over the acquisition of shares in bank
debt portfolios in the People's Republic of China,
involving multi-party litigation in both Hong Kong and
the Cayman Islands
• Acting for the liquidators of the Flightlease group
of companies (part of the SwissAir Group) in a dispute
with GATX Financial Corp and Airbus over an aircraft
purchase joint venture
• Advising in relation to US-based litigation arising
out of the collapse of the Parmalat group
• Successfully enforced a multi-million dollar
arbitral award against the Republic of Congo by
attacking a structured finance facility secured on its
oil assets
• Advising investors and creditors in relation to the
liquidation of the Bear Stearns High Grade Structured
Credit Strategies Master Fund/Enhanced Leverage Master
Fund, and the Basis Yield Alpha Fund (Master).
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