Collas Crill

Insolvency and Corporate Disputes

Stephen is Managing Partner in the Cayman Islands and the Global Head of  the Insolvency and Corporate Disputes team.  He has a demonstrated history of advocacy in the practice of corporate and commercial litigation, with an emphasis on offshore insolvency and restructuring of companies.

Stephen's practice has a strong focus on company law including corporate insolvency; schemes of arrangements; capital reductions; shareholder disputes; director's liability; international asset tracing; the enforcement of foreign judgments; worldwide Mareva injunctions, Anton Piller orders, and Norwich Pharmacal orders.

Stephen has significant contentious litigation experience arising from the representation of both liquidators, shareholders and creditors of companies and hedge funds including the claw back of fraudulent conveyances and undue preferences, allegations of investment fraud and investment manager disputes.

Since he began heading up our team of Cayman litigators, Stephen has grown the team from two to eight lawyers, all with a strong background in insolvency and restructuring matters. Prior to joining the firm Stephen spent two and a half years in Miami as a member of a boutique litigation firm in the United States which focused on cross border insolvency and trust disputes.

Group One Advocates, 2003-2008, South Africa Conyers, Dill & Pearman, 2009-2012, Cayman Kobre & Kim LLP, 2012-2015, Miami Collas Crill, 2015-present

Stephen was called as an advocate of the High Court of South Africa in 2003 and has subsequently qualified as a solicitor-advocate of the High Court of England and Wales and a solicitor-advocate of the Supreme Court of the Eastern Caribbean.

Stephen was called to the Cayman Islands Bar in January 2009 and the BVI Bar in 2013. 

Stephen has been ranked in Chambers and Partners since 2018 and recognised as a Leading Individual in Legal 500 since 2021.

University of Stellenbosch, BA Law (LLB) 1995-2002