Oliver Payne

Practice Areas

Banking Disputes; Corporate and Financial Services Disputes; Crypto Disputes; Dispute Resolution; Enforcement of Judgments and Awards; Fraud and Asset Tracing; Insurance Disputes; International Arbitration; Restructuring and Insolvency; Section 238 Shareholder Appraisal Rights; Shareholder and Valuation Disputes; Trusts; Trusts Disputes and Applications

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 Insolvency 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.

Oliver was named on Asia Business Law Journal's A List of top 50 offshore lawyers 2024.

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 Insolvency 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.

Professional Memberships

Admitted in:

2014 - British Virgin Islands

2010 - Cayman Islands

2005 - England and Wales

Oliver is a Registered Foreign Lawyer regulated by the Law Society of Hong Kong. He is also a member of:

- Cayman Islands Law Society (2010 - 2016)

- Law Society of England and Wales

- American Bankruptcy Institute

- Restructuring and Insolvency Specialists Association

- INSOL International