Ulrich Payne
Global Guide 2024
Band 5 : Dispute Resolution
Band 5
About
Provided by Ulrich Payne
Practice Areas
Dispute Resolution, Fraud & Asset Tracing, Fund Disputes, Insolvency & Restructuring, Regulatory Disputes
Career
Ulrich Payne is an English-qualified, Cayman- and BVI-admitted attorney and a partner in the Cayman lslands’ Dispute Resolution Practice Group.
He specialises in high-value, multijurisdictional disputes involving insolvency and restructuring, fraud, financial products and services, private equity, boardroom and shareholder disagreements, ranging in multimillion to multibillion U.S. dollar amounts across the U.S., Europe, the Middle East, South America, Russia and Asia. Consequently, he has substantial experience in managing complex, cross-border asset recovery efforts, as well as conducting regulatory investigations for investment banks, financial institutions and international corporate groups.
He also serves the Cayman Islands government as a contributor to legislative subcommittees tasked with advising on the impact of important proposed legislation, such as contingency and conditional fee and third-party funding arrangements, as well as identifying and resolving procedural and legal issues arising in dissenting shareholder proceedings.
Publications
The Cayman Islands restructuring officer regime comes into force on 31 August 2022
Norwich Pharmacal orders: the right medicine for third party disclosure of information and documents in the Cayman Islands
Chambers Review
Global
Ulrich Payne is noted for his skilled handling of a wide range of disputes, including insolvency matters. He also has an in-depth understanding of shareholder disputes and contentious real estate work.
Strengths
Provided by Chambers
"Ulrich Payne is very clever, very astute and knows his way around the courtroom."
"Ulrich Payne is a vision guy, a commercial lawyer who is incisive in knowing what tactics to adopt. He is a good pragmatic advocate."
"Ulrich Payne is very clever, very astute and knows his way around the courtroom."
"Ulrich Payne is a vision guy, a commercial lawyer who is incisive in knowing what tactics to adopt. He is a good pragmatic advocate."