Oliver Payne

Practice Areas

Banking Disputes, Corporate and Financial Services Disputes, Crypto Disputes, Dispute Resolution, Enforcement of Judgments and Awards, Fraud and Asset Tracing, Funds Disputes, International Arbitration, Investigations and Regulatory Advice, Restructuring and Corporate Recovery, Section 238 Shareholder Appraisal Rights, Shareholder and Valuation Disputes, Trusts Disputes

Career

Oliver is Head of Dispute Resolution in Asia. His practice spans all aspects of offshore litigation and includes complex, high value fund, shareholder and banking disputes, cross-border insolvency, and breaches of directors and trustees' duties. He is a key member of the firm's global Restructuring and Corporate Recovery team and also has experience of resolving disputes via arbitration and mediation.

Oliver has appeared numerous times before the Financial Services Division of the Grand Court of the Cayman Islands and regularly works with or against silks from some of the top London sets. As a Solicitor-Advocate, Oliver holds higher rights of audience.

His recent work has included acting for a large financial institution involved in multi-billion dollar Cayman insolvency proceedings, and advising creditors, shareholders and liquidators in a number of Cayman insolvencies. Oliver has also been heavily engaged in a number of Cayman cases involving shareholder dissent rights.

As part of Ogier's multi-disciplinary Restructuring and Corporate Recovery team, Oliver has had conduct of member and creditor schemes of arrangements, advised large Asian financial institutions, funds and private equity on distressed positions in Cayman and BVI entities, and worked on fraud and asset tracing claims arising in the liquidation context.

Oliver relocated from Ogier's Cayman Islands office to Hong Kong in 2016, following a secondment to the Hong Kong office in the summer of 2015.

Prior to joining Ogier in 2009, Oliver trained and worked as a solicitor in Herbert Smith’s Litigation and Arbitration Division in London. During his six and a half years at Herbert Smith, Oliver worked in Hong Kong and undertook secondments to UBS and Credit Suisse.

He obtained his Bachelor of Laws (with Honours) from the University of Bristol in 2001 and completed the Legal Practice Course at the Oxford Institute of Legal Practice in 2002.

Professional Memberships

Cayman Islands Law Society (2010 - 2016)

Law Society of England and Wales

Hong Kong Law Society (Registered Foreign Lawyer)

American Bankruptcy Institute

Restructuring and Insolvency Specialists Association

INSOL International

IWIRC