Oliver Payne

Practice Areas

BVI and Cayman law in Europe and Asia

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 Insolvency

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 Insolvency team. He 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.

Oliver is part of Ogier's multi-disciplinary Restructuring and Corporate Recovery team. He 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.

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.