Broadhurst LLC

Dispute Resolution

Ian has over 19 years’ experience as a litigator in complex contentious matters, with 12 of those years practising in the Cayman Islands. Ian’s practise focuses on the Cayman Islands financial services sector, dealing with investment funds, banks, insurers and corporate structures that are in default or have collapsed, and representing clients in any resulting litigation. Ian’s expertise and experience is in complex international litigation, insolvencies, restructurings, asset recovery, investment funds disputes, advising office-holders in complex cross-border liquidations as well as corporate & commercial litigation, contract disputes, fraud matters, trust disputes and high-value family litigation.

Ian represents six defendants in the AHAB v. Saad et al multi-billion corporate fraud claim and has appeared in many leading cases in the Grand Court and the Cayman Islands Court of Appeal, including representing the JOLs of the Platinum Partners Feeder Funds, the receives of XiO Fund I LP, the petitioning creditor of China Sky Chemical Fibre Co., Ltd, the sole shareholder of Mass Global Energy (DUHOK) Ltd., the defendants in the Poulton trust litigation and the joint voluntary liquidators in Income Collecting 1-3 Months T-Bills Mutual Fund. Ian is rated as a “Global Leader” in restructuring and insolvency by Who’s Who Legal and is ranked as a top lawyer in Chambers and Partners.

English

Ian is a member of Recovery and Insolvency Specialists Association (RISA), INSOL International and IWIRC.

Ian obtained his LL.B from the University of Windsor Law School (Ontario, Canada) and in 2003 was called to the Bar of Ontario as a solicitor and barrister. From 2003 to 2009 he practised in the dispute resolution teams of two prestigious law firms in London, Ontario and Toronto, Ontario. In 2009, Ian moved to the Cayman Islands, was called to the Cayman Islands Bar.