Lawyers
Olwyn Barry
Work Department
Dispute Resolution
Position
Partner
Career
Olwyn Barry is a Partner in the Dispute Resolution department in the British Virgin Islands.
Prior to joining Appleby in 2015, Olwyn worked as an associate in A&L Goodbody, Dublin in the Commercial Litigation department specialising in contentious insolvency matters and advising on a broad range of commercial disputes, banking litigation and debt enforcement.
Olwyn specialises in commercial litigation, regularly advising on a broad range of multi-jurisdictional commercial disputes with particular experience in shareholders’ disputes, applications for interim relief, and cross-border fraud and asset tracing litigation.
Languages
English
Education
Olwyn graduated from the University College Dublin with a Bachelor of Civil Law (International) degree having spent a year studying in the University of Melbourne, Australia. She completed the professional Practice Course in the Law Society of Ireland while completing her apprenticeship in A&L Goodbody and was admitted to the roll of solicitors in Ireland in 2011.
She was also admitted to the roll of solicitors in England and Wales and admitted as a solicitor of the Eastern Caribbean Supreme Court in 2015 upon joining Appleby´s BVI office.
Law Society of Ireland University College Dublin University of Melbourne, AustraliaPersonal
Olwyn was recognised by the Legal 500 with clients describing her as “unflappable and deals with everything that is thrown at her”.