Sarah Sussman

Associate | Cayman Islands

Biography

Sarah Sussman is a member of our Litigation & Insolvency and Restructuring team in the Cayman Islands. Her experience spans a broad range of commercial litigation matters with a particular focus on contentious trust disputes, commercial fraud, and company disputes, often with a cross-border component. Prior to joining us in 2022, Sarah practiced in Auckland, New Zealand at Deloitte Touche Tohmatsu and at Jackson Russell. She has provided advice and advocacy (both as lead and as junior counsel) in New Zealand’s High Court and Court of Appeal on a range of commercial chancery matters and regularly acted as instructing solicitor to senior coun ...

Sarah Sussman is a member of our Litigation & Insolvency and Restructuring team in the Cayman Islands.

Her experience spans a broad range of commercial litigation matters with a particular focus on contentious trust disputes, commercial fraud, and company disputes, often with a cross-border component.

Prior to joining us in 2022, Sarah practiced in Auckland, New Zealand at Deloitte Touche Tohmatsu and at Jackson Russell. She has provided advice and advocacy (both as lead and as junior counsel) in New Zealand’s High Court and Court of Appeal on a range of commercial chancery matters and regularly acted as instructing solicitor to senior counsel.

Sarah is a member of INSOL International, the International Women's Insolvency & Restructuring Confederation (IWIRC), and the Recovery and Insolvency Specialists Association (RISA).

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Advising a global corporation in a dispute over the termination of an allegedly perpetual contract.

Acting for a ASX listed company in relation to an intellectual property dispute.

Advising trustees and beneficiaries in complex trust disputes in the Supreme Court.

Advising a shareholder in litigation concerning the sale of shares in a film production company in the Court of Appeal.

Advising trustees of a private trust in relation to trustees’ duties and obligations to beneficiaries.

Registering foreign judgments in the context of cross-border debt recovery.

Acting for liquidators of two companies in a dispute with a creditor over the proper allocation and distribution of funds in the Court of Appeal.

Challenging the Crown’s managed isolation quarantine system in New Zealand as an unjustified limit on the New Zealand Bill of Rights Act.

New Zealand
2015

Cayman Islands
2022

University of Auckland (BCom)
2010

University of Auckland (LLB)
2015