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Robin McMillan

Counsel

Email

Tel

+1 345 814 2009

Address

Clifton House
75 Fort Street
PO Box 190
KY1-1104
Cayman Islands

Practice areas

Litigation & Insolvency

Laws practised

profile: Robin McMillan is counsel to the firm and a member of the Litigation practice group. He specialises in international commercial litigation, insolvency, trusts, company law, judicial review and public law. He has extensive experience in several common-law jurisdictions.

Robin has been consistently ranked by PLC Which Lawyer? for his work in dispute resolution and restructuring and insolvency since 2007. In 2010, Robin was named an Endorsed Lawyer in these two areas. More recently, Robin was recognised for his commercial and international dispute resolution experience in the 2012 edition of Legal 500 Caribbean as well as for restructuring and insolvency (2011) by PLC Which Lawyer?.
Robin joined Appleby in 1998 after spending two years as crown counsel with the Cayman Islands Government legal department. He was also a senior government lawyer for more than ten years in Bermuda, acting in numerous cases in the Supreme Court and the Court of Appeal.

Robin was a member of the Law Society Sub Committee that considered the introduction of a Commercial Court in the Cayman Islands as well as the Law Society Sub Committee that considered the reform of the Freedom of Information Law in the Cayman Islands. Robin is a member of the State Bar of California, and the Cayman Islands Law Society.
expertise: Recent cases include:

The winding up of BCCI (Overseas) in the Cayman Islands, the world’s largest ever banking insolvency.

Acting for liquidators of the Flightlease group of companies (part of the SwissAir Group) in a dispute over a joint venture involving the purchase of aircraft from Airbus. The litigation was complex, requiring the coordination of litigation across multiple jurisdictions.

Undertaking the first ever petition to the European Court of Human Rights on behalf of a Caymanian petitioner.
teams: Banking Litigation

Fraud Litigation

Insurance Insolvency

Negligence Claims

Publications

19 April 2012
ILO Offshore Services - International Cooperation in Foreign Bankruptcy Proceedings (RMcMillan)
In the interests of international cooperation and comity, Part XVII of the Companies Law (2011 Revision) provides a helpful mechanism whereby the Grand Court may make an order to recognise the right of a foreign representative, which is appointed in respect of a debtor for the purpose of a foreign bankruptcy proceeding, to act in the Cayman Islands on behalf of or in the name of the debtor.

30 March 2012
FA Service Description - Trustee Services
Through Appleby Trust (Cayman) Ltd. we can act as a professional independent trustee.

29 March 2012
Cayman Islands International Co-operation in Matters of Foreign Bankruptcy Proceedings by Robin McMillan
In the interests of international co-operation and comity, Part XVII of the Cayman Islands Companies Law (2011 Revision) (“the Law”) provides a helpful mechanism whereby the Grand Court of the Cayman Islands may make an order recognising the right of a foreign representative, appointed in respect of a debtor for the purposes of a foreign bankruptcy proceeding, to act in the Cayman Islands on behalf of or in the name of the debtor.

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