Shula Sbarro is a member of the Litigation & Insolvency team based in our Cayman Islands office. She has experience in complex offshore commercial litigation, contentious insolvency and restructuring, fraud and asset tracing and recovery, enforcement, and disclosure actions. She acts for various stakeholders, including liquidators, creditors, directors, and shareholders.
Shula has experience in multi-jurisdictional commercial litigation, contentious just and equitable winding-up proceedings, liquidators’ appointments, investigations into director misconduct and cross-border restructuring, enforcement of foreign judgments and arbitra
...Shula Sbarro is a member of the Litigation & Insolvency team based in our Cayman Islands office. She has experience in complex offshore commercial litigation, contentious insolvency and restructuring, fraud and asset tracing and recovery, enforcement, and disclosure actions. She acts for various stakeholders, including liquidators, creditors, directors, and shareholders.
Shula has experience in multi-jurisdictional commercial litigation, contentious just and equitable winding-up proceedings, liquidators’ appointments, investigations into director misconduct and cross-border restructuring, enforcement of foreign judgments and arbitral award, Norwich Pharmacal relief, injunctions, and other recovery and enforcement matters.
Before joining Harneys in 2026, Shula worked at other top 10 international law firms in the Cayman Islands and the United Kingdom. While in the Cayman Islands, Shula acted in some of the most significant insolvency and litigation matters, including, Platinum Partners, Performance Insurance SPC, XiO, Seahawk, Asia Renewable Energy, Raiffeisen International Bank v Scully, Global Cord Blood Corporation, and Holt Fund SPC. Notably, she acted in one of the biggest worldwide fraud cases 1MDB (global asset recovery of over US$7.6 billion misappropriated from a sovereign wealth fund).
Shula obtained a first-class LLB, following which she obtained the Sir Thomas Moore Bursary (giving admittance to the Lord Denning Society, Lincoln’s Inn). During this period, she was the winner of both the Regional and later the National Negotiation Competition (England & Wales), organised by CEDR. She went on to represent England & Wales in the International Negotiation Competition, held in Dublin. Shula then completed the Bar Vocational Course (awarded ‘very competent’) and was called to the Bar of England & Wales, Lincoln’s Inn, London. She cross-qualified as a Solicitor while completing her LLM in International Commercial Law.
Shula is a member of IWIRC, INSOL International, ABI, IBA, and RISA. She has contributed to several publications, including Chambers and Partners, INSOL International, and Lexology, to name a few.
