• Acting for the manager and general partner of a significant Cayman Islands private equity fund in litigation concerning reconstruction of capital account balances following group insolvency resulting from allegations of serious financial mismanagement and fraud. Successful appeal to the Cayman Islands Court of Appeal concerning disclosure obligations of the general partner under section 22 of the Exempted Limited Partnership Act.
• Acting for a Cayman Islands bank, in official liquidation, in respect of claims against former customers, and enforcement proceedings.
• Acting for a company which owned a large Cayman Islands resort, in respect of real estate claims for specific performance of a repurchase contract and a contested winding up petition.
• Acting for minority shareholders in respect of multiple family companies with a substantial group structure and incorporations in the BVI, Liberia, Malaysia, Papua New Guinea, Australia, and Singapore. Unfair prejudice claim in the BVI, and BVI derivative action on behalf of a foreign company. Responding to forum challenges.
• Successfully resisting strike-out application in respect of a just and equitable winding up petition where an offer had been made to buy the shareholder out, on the basis that the offer was not fair. Consent order entered into for court-supervised buy-out on agreed terms.
• Acting for minority shareholders and directors of PRC state-owned joint venture energy company in a BVI shareholder dispute involving allegations of breach of fiduciary duty, fraud, and expropriation of significant company assets in the PRC.
• Applications on behalf of majority lenders under syndicated loan to discharge provisional liquidators appointed over multiple BVI and Cayman Islands companies by the minority lenders.
• Summary judgment and strike-out applications.
• Responding to order compelling worldwide asset disclosure in conjunction with injunction.
• Advice concerning enforcement of foreign judgments in the Cayman Islands.
• Restoration of struck-off companies in the BVI and Cayman Islands.
• Advising on directors’ duties and potential breaches of directors’ duties in the Cayman Islands and the BVI.
• Applications for freezing injunctions and prohibitory injunctions.
• Applications for Norwich Pharmacal and Bankers Trust orders.
• Applications for permission for service of process out of the jurisdiction.
• Applications for security for costs.

Alexandra regularly appears in bankruptcy and winding up petitions, and related insolvency applications.

• Advice concerning winding-up of fund structure and permissibility of in specie distributions of company stock to ultimate investors.
• Obtaining an order granting a director permission to be involved in a “phoenix company” under s.216(3) of the Insolvency Act 1986.
• Challenging appointments of provisional liquidators.