When the unthinkable happens and you become involved in a complex commercial dispute, Johnstone Law is with you every step of the way. Drawing on vast experience derived from handling the most significant, high value and technical disputes, we provide fearless advice and representation focussed solely on the outcome you wish to achieve. Whether it be an aggressive all fronts attack, a strategic positioning for settlement, or an attritional drawn out battle, our flexible commercial approach will achieve your goals. Our network of the finest lawyers from around the globe, the very best barristers, accountants, liquidators and experts, will ensure that you have the most trusted and reliable support at every stage. We have deep experience and understand your business in a huge number of sectors, from private equity, hedge funds and venture capital, to high net worth individuals, crypto founders and investors, professional clients, and institutional banks, insurers and corporates.
Insolvency & Restructuring
The Cayman Islands is one of the world's premier insolvency jurisdictions, home to some of the most complex, high-value and cross-border restructuring and liquidation proceedings ever conducted. When companies, creditors, officeholders and stakeholders face these most difficult and consequential of situations, they need lawyers with the experience, commitment and technical ability to deliver results under intense commercial and legal pressure. At Johnstone Law, we have been at the forefront of the most significant offshore insolvency proceedings of the last decade, including the majority of the insolvencies arising out of the PRC property crash, major hedge fund collapses, and multi-billion dollar cross-border restructurings. Acting for liquidators, creditors, bondholders, shareholders and stakeholders, we provide clear, decisive and commercially focused advice at every stage of the process. We move quickly, think creatively, and are committed to achieving the best possible outcomes for our clients, however complex and demanding the matter.
Fraud & Asset Tracing
In an ever more electronic and connected world, the perpetrators of fraud are constantly finding new creative and sophisticated ways of appropriating and concealing assets. Victims of fraud need lawyers with the speed and creativity to craft anti-fraud orders that ensure that wherever fraudsters seek to hide themselves and their appropriated assets, they will be found and held to account. At Johnstone Law, we know the value of swift, multi-jurisdictional responses, having successfully acted in fraud cases involving Hong Kong, Singapore, Japan, the Philippines, PRC, Australia, the UAE, the US, Cayman, BVI, Switzerland and many more. We are proud to cooperate with the best lawyers and investigators across the world, whether in a lead or supporting capacity, to achieve best in class results. And if the law has not yet adapted to changing circumstances, we will never step back in seeking to persuade the Courts to provide assistance that responds to practical reality rather than simply established legal precedent.
Digital Assets & Blockchain
Supported by a flexible and modern legislative and regulatory environment, the Cayman Islands is at the cutting edge of growth and innovation in the digital assets and blockchain space, particularly with regards to DAOs and foundation companies. With genuine sector expertise in this area, our advice is frequently sought by individuals and entities seeking to provide protections and solutions in an ever-changing and dynamic environment. From adapting traditional asset-recovery techniques to digital assets, to advising on the rights of members in the context of foundation companies or DAOs, and advising on cross-border insolvency and security arrangements governing digital assets, we provide innovative, timely, practical and cost-effective advice and solutions, however novel the problem.
About the Firm
Johnstone Law is a specialist litigation and insolvency firm founded on a single conviction: that a focused team of senior practitioners delivers consistently better outcomes and better value than a larger firm can offer.
Founded by the former head of litigation and insolvency at a leading Cayman Islands dispute resolution practice, we bring market-leading expertise to complex international disputes, insolvencies, fraud, and asset-tracing matters. We only take on work within our expertise and when we have the capacity to deliver a client experience we can be truly proud of, with round-the-clock personal service from the senior practitioners who know your case best.
