Caribbean - British Virgin Islands
Maples Group
Maples Group excels in insolvency and restructuring proceedings and also leverages the firm's global network, particularly the Hong Kong office, to act for clients throughout Asia Pacific. Adrian Francis leads the department and is praised as 'a safe pair of hands' for trials, appeals and arbitration proceedings. Also noted is Matthew Freeman, who is a trusted adviser for clients navigating intricate shareholder disputes and insolvency and restructuring matters, and counsel Stuart Rau, who focuses on banking litigation, while recently promoted of counsel Scott Tolliss handles a broad spectrum of disputes and restructuring engagements, often appearing before the Eastern Caribbean Court of Appeal and the Privy Council.
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‘In my experience the Maples team is always very well-resourced - including between offices/jurisdictions - which enables them to be incredibly responsive. They are always totally on top of case management and attentive to their clients.’
‘Adrian Francis is a really safe pair of hands. Scott Tolliss is one of the best.’
‘Scott Tolliss is very proactive and responsive. He is extremely personable and clearly very committed to delivering the best service to clients. As well as being an exceptional technical lawyer, he is very commercially minded.’
'Matthew Freeman: Relaxed and informal whilst remaining professional - Commercial mindset - Quick thinking and solutions based.'
'Stuart Rau: - Regimented, methodical, considered and precise - Always available and quick to respond to instructions - Provides thorough and specific advice with clear conclusions.'
'Good team to handle cross-border disputes.'
Key clients
- China Evergrande Group
- Teneo
- Teneo (previously KPMG)
- Grant Thornton
- Interpath
- ADM Asia-Pacific Trading PTE. LTD and ADM Germany GMBH
- Happy Lion Ventures Limited and Chinex Limited
- Sunpower Business Group PTE Ltd and Tournan Trading PTE LTD
- Directors of Masirah Oil Limited
Work highlights
- Advised China Evergrande Group on its restructuring in excess of $300bn.
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Leading individuals
Adrian is a partner of Maples and Calder's Dispute Resolution & Insolvency team in the Maples Group's British Virgin Islands office. He specializes in complex international commercial litigation and dispute resolution. Adrian has considerable case management and advocacy experience at the interlocutory, trial and appellate levels, as well as in arbitration and mediation.
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Matthew is head of Maples and Calder's Dispute Resolution & Insolvency team in the Maples Group's British Virgin Islands office. He specialises in civil fraud and asset tracing, enforcement of judgments and arbitral awards, lender enforcement, trust litigation, regulatory, corporate restructuring and insolvency. Matthew practised in England and Wales for eight years before re-locating to the British Virgin Islands in 2015. He has considerable case management and advocacy experience at the interlocutory, trial and appellate levels, as well as arbitration and mediation. Matthew has also provided expert legal opinions at litigation and arbitration hearings in England and Wales, The Russian Federation, Israel and in the United States.
Practice head
The lawyer(s) leading their teams.
Adrian Francis