34 ASIAN LEGAL BUSINESS – AUGUST 2024 WWW.LEGALBUSINESSONLINE.COM ASIA TOP OFFSHORE LITIGATORS 2024 Continuing its tradition, ALB highlights the accomplishments of offshore law firm dispute practitioners who have excelled in handling significant cases and delivering exceptional client service. ASIA TOP OFFSHORE LITIGATORS 2024 Image: Tonktiti/Shutterstock.com Joanne Collett partner, Ogier, Hong Kong Joanne Collett is a partner at Ogier’s Hong Kong office, specializing in restructuring and insolvency, and dispute resolution. With over 22 years of experience in insolvency, restructuring, and commercial litigation, Collett is one of the most seasoned offshore litigators in Asia. She has spent the past 12 years practicing in Hong Kong, previously serving as a partner at Walkers in Hong Kong and earlier at Appleby in the Cayman Islands and Hong Kong. Collett’s expertise encompasses advising companies experiencing financial distress, creditors of offshore entities (both secured and unsecured), investors in offshore funds, and other shareholders in offshore entities. She is highly regarded for her insights into directors’ duties and corporate governance in relation to the risk of corporate and finance transactions, along with significant expertise in take private transactions (including the exercise of dissent rights for merger transactions). Key cases in her career include acting as Cayman Islands counsel for Oriente Group Limited in a pioneering application for Restructuring Officers under the new Cayman legislation. This case involved complex considerations of the new framework and cross-border issues due to parallel proceedings in Hong Kong. Another notable case involved MIE Holdings Corporation, where Collett secured provisional liquidators for a $248 million scheme of arrangement and Chapter 15 recognition. The case was distinguished by its novel conditional discharge of provisional liquidators. In addition, she represented a syndicate of banks in a $324 million margin loan debt case related to the shareholders of Luckin Coffee, involving multiple winding-up proceedings across Cayman and BVI, and Cayman Islands LIST BY ASIAN LEGAL BUSINESS, TEXT BY BINGQING WANG Joanne Collett Ogier Justin Davis Ogier Edwin Gomez Ogier Norman Hau Conyers Jeremy Lightfoot Carey Olsen Anna Lin Conyers Ian Mann Harneys James Noble Carey Olsen Oliver Payne Ogier Nicola Roberts Harneys Helen Wang Carey Olsen Matthew Watson Carey Olsen
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