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Andrew Bolton

Group Head | Litigation & Insolvency, Partner

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Tel

+1 345 814 2011

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Address

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

 

profile

Andrew Bolton specialises in contentious insolvency matters and commercial litigation, including fraud, asset recovery and professional negligence.

Since 2004, Andrew has been consistently ranked as a leading lawyer in various global directories for litigation, dispute resolution and insolvency and restructuring. These directories include Chambers Global, Legal500, PLC Which Lawyer? and IFLR1000. Chambers Global 2009 declared that clients value Andrew’s experience, responsiveness and judgement and the 2011 edition listed Andrew as being well known for his funds and insolvency-related work and trust litigation expertise. Chambers Global 2012 published that clients thought Andrew was 'an intensely intellectual practitioner' and that 'he has an astonishing mind'. He was recognised in the 2012 Legal 500 Caribbean rankings and clients were quoted as saying he is a ‘powerful litigator’ in the 2009 Legal 500 edition. Andrew was recognised in the areas of dispute resolution (2011) and restructuring and insolvency (2011) in the 2011 PLC Which Lawyer? rankings.

Prior to joining Appleby in 1997, Andrew worked for Freshfields (now Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer) in London and Brussels for ten years, including a year on secondment to the Bank of England. He became a partner at Appleby in 1999 and now has overall responsibility for the firm’s Litigation and Insolvency practice in its various offices.

Andrew is a member of the Law Society of England & Wales, the Law Society of Cayman Islands and INSOL International.

expertise

Recent cases include:

  • Acting for a shareholder in proceedings involving the Founding Partners group of companies and partnerships, which have been the subject of litigation and winding-up proceedings in the United States, the Cayman Islands and Bermuda.
  • Acting for directors of companies in the SPhinX group of hedge funds in connection with liquidation proceedings in the Cayman Islands.
  • Ongoing work acting for the Official Liquidators in the winding up of BCCI (Overseas) in the Cayman Islands, the world’s largest ever banking insolvency.
  • Acting in BVI proceedings for Tajik Aluminium Company, one of the world’s largest aluminium smelters, in connection with fraud claims in excess of US$400 million, involving the supply of raw materials at excessive prices and the purchase of finished aluminium at excessive discounts.
  • Representing the majority shareholders of a company responsible for the largest foreign investment projects in Vietnam in connection with a long-running dispute with the minority shareholders.

Teams

  • Banking Litigation

  • Fraud Litigation

  • Insolvency Litigation

education

Nottingham Law School (England)

University of Cambridge (England)