Justin Davis
Asia-Pacific Guide 2024
Up and Coming : Offshore: Dispute Resolution
Up and Coming
About
Provided by Justin Davis
Practice Areas
BVI Law in Europe and Asia, Corporate and Financial Services Disputes, Crypto Disputes, Dispute Resolution, Enforcement of Judgments and Awards, Fraud and Asset Tracing, International Arbitration, Restructuring and Corporate Recovery
Career
Justin is a partner in Ogier's Dispute Resolution and Restructuring and Corporate Recovery teams in Hong Kong. His practice focuses on complex, high-value, multi-jurisdictional commercial and corporate litigation, shareholders' disputes and insolvency litigation. He has particular experience of obtaining and opposing freezing injunctions, asset disclosure orders, receivership orders and anti-suit injunctions. He also has extensive experience in obtaining and opposing winding up orders and asset enforcement orders.
Prior to joining Ogier, Justin practised at a leading set of barristers' chambers at the Commercial Bar in London for 14 years before moving to the BVI in early 2017.
Before joining Ogier, he was a barrister with another leading offshore firm.
Justin's recent work includes:
Acting for the Joint Liquidators of Unigroup International Holdings Ltd ("UIH") and Tsinghua Unigroup International Co. Ltd ("TUI"). UIH and TUI are both companies incorporated in the BVI.
Acting for the Joint Liquidators (the "JLs") of Three Arrows Capital Limited ("3AC"), one of the most prominent cryptocurrency hedge funds. On 27 June 2022 the BVI Court appointed Teneo as the JLs of 3AC further to the hearing of applications from 3AC itself and from a consortium of creditors. Since the JLs' appointment, 3AC has filed for Chapter 15 bankruptcy protection in the Southern District of New York and the JLs have filed recognition proceedings in Singapore.
Re Luckin Coffee Inc ("Luckin Coffee") in provisional liquidation. Acting as BVI and Cayman lawyers for a BVI company which was a creditor of each of Haode Investment Inc. (in liquidation ("Haode") and Summer Fame Limited (in liquidation) ("Summer Fame"), both BVI companies, and Primus Investments Fund, L.P. (in liquidation) ("Primus"), an exempted limited partnership registered pursuant to the laws of the Cayman Islands. Each of Haode, Summer Fame and Primus were registered ordinary shareholders in Luckin Coffee, an exempted company incorporated in the Cayman Islands formerly listed on NASDAQ.
Professional Memberships
Memberships:
RISA (BVI INSOL Chapter)
INSOL
British Virgin Islands Bar Association
Hon. Society of Lincoln's Inn
Hon. Society of Inner Temple (Ad Eundem)
Chambers Review
Asia-Pacific
Justin Davis has a strong track record of advising clients in the area of restructurings and liquidations. He handles insolvency disputes involving multiple parties and jurisdictions, including those relating to Chapter 15 and Chapter 11 proceedings.