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Claire Goldstein
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Claire is “a formidable advocate whom clients want to have on their side.”

Legal 500
Biography

Claire Goldstein is a partner in our BVI Litigation and Insolvency team. She joined us in 2014 after having spent five years at another leading BVI law firm. She has extensive experience of complex multi-jurisdictional corporate and commercial litigation, trusts, fraud and asset tracing and insolvency and restructuring matters and has worked with a wide variety of clients. Claire also regularly represents clients in the BVI courts on a number of interlocutory applications including urgent applications for injunctions, the appointment of interim receivers and other forms of interim relief. Claire has worked on some of the leading cases i ...

Claire Goldstein is a partner in our BVI Litigation and Insolvency team. She joined us in 2014 after having spent five years at another leading BVI law firm. She has extensive experience of complex multi-jurisdictional corporate and commercial litigation, trusts, fraud and asset tracing and insolvency and restructuring matters and has worked with a wide variety of clients. Claire also regularly represents clients in the BVI courts on a number of interlocutory applications including urgent applications for injunctions, the appointment of interim receivers and other forms of interim relief.

Claire has worked on some of the leading cases in the jurisdiction including the Fairfield litigation where she represented a number of banks that had invested into Fairfield Sentry Ltd which was a feeder fund into Bernard Madoff Investment Securities Limited. She has also worked on some of the largest and most complex enforcement claims in order to enforce foreign judgments and arbitral awards in the BVI.

Prior to moving offshore Claire worked at Slaughter and May and Cleary Gottlieb Steen & Hamilton in London. She was called to the Bar of England and Wales in 2004. Claire was also a lecturer in constitutional and administrative Law at St Hilda’s College, University of Oxford.

Claire is recommended by Chambers and Legal 500 as a leading BVI practitioner. She is on the board of the BVI Restructuring and Insolvency Association (RISA) and is a member of INSOL and the International Women's Insolvency & Restructuring Confederation (IWIRC). Claire is also on the advisory board for the Trusts and Estates Litigation Forum.

Claire is a regular contributor to the Offshore Litigation Blog.

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Claire has been ranked for her BVI Dispute Resolution expertise. Claire is "very diligent and attentive." Sources say: "She is astute and provides great client service." “I have only good things to say. Claire is very experienced. I've seen her with clients and it seems they have a great ...

Claire has been ranked for her BVI Dispute Resolution expertise. Claire is "very diligent and attentive." Sources say: "She is astute and provides great client service." “I have only good things to say. Claire is very experienced. I've seen her with clients and it seems they have a great relationship."

Claire is recognised as a "leading individual".

Claire is ranked for her BVI Dispute Resolution expertise. Sources say: "She is a pleasure to work with - hugely intelligent and a good team player."

Claire is recognised as a “leading individual” in the British Virgin Islands Dispute Resolution rankings. Clients say she is "very intelligent, diligent, and a good team player’.

Claire has been ranked for her BVI Dispute Resolution expertise. Sources say she is "an excellent lawyer" who provides "efficient and precise advice". Other commentators highlight her as "a very strategic advocate".

Claire is recognised as a “leading individual” in the British Virgin Islands Dispute Resolution rankings. Clients say "[she is a] very experienced BVI practitioner who knows and understands the market and workings of the system well."

Claire has been recognised as a Thought Leader in the Private Client guide; and a Global Leader in the Asset Recovery guide.

Claire is recognised as a GIR "thought leader" and an expert in asset recovery.

Claire has been ranked for her BVI Dispute Resolution expertise. Sources say she is "very knowledgeable, very attentive to our needs and very commercial in her approach."

Claire continues to uphold "a very good reputation" in BVI disputes matters. She is “a great advocate” and “a good opponent” who takes a discerning approach to the merits of each case. She has particular experience relating to investment fund litigation and the obtaining of emergency freezing injunctions and Chambers states: “She's clearly very, very clever, conscientious and hard-working. If you've got a difficult or complicated case, she's just the person you want on your team.”

Claire is recognised as a “next generation partner” in the British Virgin Islands Dispute Resolution rankings.

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England and Wales (not practising)
2004

British Virgin Islands
2009

University of Oxford (BCL)
2003

European University Institute (LLM)
2002

University of Leeds (LLB)
2001

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