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Biography

Anya Allen
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Anya Allen

Counsel | Dispute Resolution | Cayman Islands
Mobile +1 345 815 2967 anya.allen@harneys.com
Biography

Anya Allen is a member of our Litigation & Insolvency and Restructuring team in the Cayman Islands. She advises on all aspects of cross-border insolvency, restructuring and contentious commercial matters.

Anya has experience in large-scale cross-border restructuring, shareholder disputes (including section 238 matters), contentious company and director claims, asset tracing and recovery, enforcement of judgments, regulatory matters, and obtaining interim relief. Anya regularly acts for large financial institutions, debtors, creditors, trustees, and insolvency practitioners. She has appeared at all levels of the Cayman court system

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Anya Allen is a member of our Litigation & Insolvency and Restructuring team in the Cayman Islands. She advises on all aspects of cross-border insolvency, restructuring and contentious commercial matters.

Anya has experience in large-scale cross-border restructuring, shareholder disputes (including section 238 matters), contentious company and director claims, asset tracing and recovery, enforcement of judgments, regulatory matters, and obtaining interim relief. Anya regularly acts for large financial institutions, debtors, creditors, trustees, and insolvency practitioners. She has appeared at all levels of the Cayman court system including the Privy Council, and as advocate in the Grand Court.

Before relocating to the Cayman Islands in 2017, Anya spent five years as a litigator in New Zealand, working on large-scale asset recovery litigation for the Commission of Police, Crown matters, and insurance litigation, and appeared as sole counsel before the District and High Courts.

Anya is a member of IWIRC, RISA, and IBA, and is a regular contributor to Harneys Offshore Litigation Blog and author of articles published externally.

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Advising a large international financial insitution on debt recovery strategy and steps, involving insolvency proceedings in multiple jurisdictions.

Advising Luckin Coffee Inc, in a restructuring in which the company successfully compromised its debts and liabilities in the Cayman Islands and the US through parallel processes which included a scheme of arrangement in the Cayman Islands and settlement of class actions in the US.

Advising company-side on a number of appraisal arbitrage valuation (s. 238) proceedings, including In re iKang Healthcare Group, Inc. and In re Shanda Games and appearing as junior counsel at the Privy Council.

Advising an award creditor in respect of its international efforts to enforce an arbitral award of over US$1.5 billion, including successfully obtaining Norwich Pharmacal relief in the Cayman Islands.

Contentious regulatory work advising clients in respect of their obligations under the Monetary Authority Act and ancillary legislation and defence of regulatory enforcement measures.

Advising liquidators and court-appointed managers on their obligations, conduct of liquidations, and asset tracing efforts.

Institute of Professional Legal Studies, New Zealand
2012

University of Otago (LLB)
2011

University of Otago (BA)
2011