Litigation & Dispute Resolution

Clients want sensible solutions whether by negotiation, mediation, arbitration or in court. Whatever the method, we focus on our client’s interests to achieve the best possible outcomes tailored to their needs. Our attorneys are smart, strategic thinkers, dedicated to achieving a successful result for each client.

Asset Tracing and Enforcement

One of the most important aspects of litigation is asset tracing and enforcement – ensuring clients reap the tangible benefits of litigation. We have experience and expertise in obtaining orders for the seizure and preservation of materials, freezing orders, search orders, sequestration orders, orders for disclosure, receiverships and liquidations.

Corporate & Commercial Disputes

We act for a diverse range of onshore and offshore corporate entities from multinational entities, to banks and other financial institutions, to local businesses. Matters for which we are regularly retained to act on include shareholder disputes, independent board committee advice, and investment fund disputes. We advise on managing risk and protecting client’s business and personal interests from the outset. Our advice includes an open assessment of the costs of litigation as well as advice on avoiding future disputes while managing current ones. Our litigators have a broad range of experience and significant expertise in resolving a diverse range of complex commercial disputes.

Insolvency and Restructuring

Broadhurst LLC advises insolvency practitioners, creditors (including institutional lenders and bondholders) directors and other stakeholders on complex domestic and cross border restructurings and insolvencies. Our growing team of seven attorneys are involved in some of the largest and most complex cross border matters such as: the Dubai based Abraaj Holdings private equity failure; the Ahmad Hamad Algosaibi and Brothers v. Saad Investments Company Limited & Others $6 billion corporate fraud claim; the Platinum Partners Funds insolvencies; the XiO Fund I LP interim receivership; and the Wimbledon Financing Master Fund liquidation. The majority of our matters involve multiple jurisdictions which allows us to collaborate with our vast network of international connections.

Property and Construction

Our attorneys are experienced in all manner of construction and property disputes. We understand the construction business and offer a wealth of expertise gained through involvement and resolution of numerous and diverse construction disputes for owners, general contractors and sub-contractors. We have acted in relation to some of the largest commercial developments in the Cayman Islands and are also regularly instructed with respect to residential matters.  We are also experienced with other disputes concerning property and are regularly instructed with respect conveyancing, land compensation, estate and strata disputes.

Personal Injury Claims

Broadhurst LLC offers a full range of personal injury services through our affiliate, Recover Personal Injury Attorneys.  We have a team of highly experienced attorneys who specialise in personal injury law and work exclusively on behalf of seriously injured accident victims and their families. If you have been recently injured in an accident or are interested in learning more please contact us at +1-345-749-9999 or 1-345-924-9999.

Family Law

Our family law team have acted in some of the highest-value divorce cases in the Cayman Islands. Our attorneys are formidable, but also approachable, and provide exceptional client service. In addition to extensive family law experience, our family law specialists have a background in a number of other areas that often arise in divorce cases, such as trusts, real estate, complex corporate ownership structures, shareholder disputes and international asset tracing claims.  

We work to ensure our clients achieve the best possible financial outcomes in light of their personal and financial circumstances. This includes open communications with our clients about their goals and the careful and transparent management of legal costs.

We regularly act for clients seeking to protect inherited / family wealth from divorce claims, for those trying to maintain wealth and those seeking their fair share of it. 

Private Clients, Trusts & Estates

Our trusts experts provide leading edge expertise and personal service in establishing trusts, personal asset structuring and protection and family transition. We also provide trusteeship services for established on-shore and off-shore clients.

Our attorneys and paralegals have a tremendous depth of experience in the drafting of wills and provision of succession advice. We also regularly act as the corporate trustee for the management and distribution of high net-worth estates.

Wills & Estates

Our team has been providing succession and inheritance advice to family office administrators, the retiring generation and the potential inheritors for over four decades. We have acted in major estates with respect to planning, inheritance, generation transfers and the drafting and administration of wills, trusts and wealth accumulation and transfer entities.

We are experienced at dealing with cross border issues that may arise and have the benefit of strong connections around the globe to assist should any matter require foreign legal advice or assistance.

Contentious Trusts and Estates

Our team has tremendous expertise in dealing with a full range of contentious matters relating to estates, wills and trusts. While we will seek to resolve such matters without recourse to litigation, where this is not possible we are experienced in acting for beneficiaries, trustees, executors and administrators either as plaintiffs or defendants.

Property

Broadhurst LLC advises clients on both residential and commercial real estate transactions. Our attorneys and paralegals are focused on successful outcomes for land and property developers, owners, operators, investors, strata corporations, contractors, potential purchasers and occupiers. We provide complete advice in all areas related to land, real estate and construction.

We are regularly engaged in the financing of real estate transactions representing both lenders and borrowers in all aspects of financing and the related security. Additionally, our firm has expertise in the area of strata (condominium) law and regulation. In particular, attorneys of the firm sit on a committee for the Law Society of the Cayman Islands that reviews, amends and drafts the strata law for the Cayman Islands.

Corporate, Development and Corporate Financing

Assisting in construction financing programs, the structuring of commercial and residential development and the negotiation of commercial borrowing arrangements are components of our business law practice. We are well versed in the intricacies of complex project financing and securitization.

Conveyancing

From corporate acquisitions to residential purchases, we regularly acts on behalf of both vendors and purchasers. Our team ensures that all land transactions are conducted professionally and promptly.

Dispute Resolution

Our team is experienced in all manner of construction and property disputes. We understand the construction business and offer a wealth of expertise gained through involvement and resolution of numerous and diverse construction disputes for owners, general contractors and sub-contractors. We have acted in relation to some of the largest commercial developments in the Cayman Islands and are also regularly instructed with respect to residential matters.  We are also experienced with other disputes concerning property and are regularly instructed with respect conveyancing, land compensation, estate and strata disputes.

Corporate

The Corporate practice at Broadhurst LLC offers clients creative solutions to legal hurdles of all types, whether the client is confronted by a recurring operational challenge or is engaged in unique, complex transactional matters.

Mergers & Acquisitions

We frequently represent both onshore and offshore clients in merger and acquisition transactions related to targets and assets in the Cayman Islands and abroad. Our team has a wealth of experience in this area, particularly representing onshore clients in private-private and public-private cross border acquisitions. Our depth of knowledge respecting the unique legislative and regulatory regime in the Cayman Islands allows us to develop solutions that achieve each client’s business objectives effectively. This process includes recognizing that the most important part of the transaction for the client may not be the closing, but what happens once the deal is consummated. Our team goes beyond successfully implementing the acquisition by ensuring that impediments to integration for the benefit of the purchaser are removed or ensuring that the vendor is not unnecessarily impeded from enjoying the proceeds from the sale in a timely manner. It is this type of foresight that our clients consistently refer to as the most impressive aspect of our service.

Finance & Securities

Our team represents issuers, agents and other capital market participants with respect to domestic and cross-border equity and debt financing transactions. Whether the transaction is conducted on a private placement basis or involves the public markets, we take a creative approach when working to formulate practical strategies for raising capital.

Corporate & Commercial

We provide our clients with on-going legal advice related to the structuring and operation of their businesses. Our corporate and commercial practice includes advice regarding shareholder relations, board of director advisory services, distribution and supply contracts, regulatory compliance, reorganizations and corporate restructuring. 

Investment Funds

Our team advises fund managers and promoters as well as institutional investors in connection with the creation of investment funds and their continuing operations following establishment. We represent a variety of onshore market participants seeking to take advantage of the Cayman Islands as a domicile for their fund vehicles. We are also able to assist clients when listing their mutual funds on the Cayman Islands Stock Exchange. The Cayman Islands is the leading jurisdiction for the creation of investment funds, accounting for approximately 75% of the hedge funds globally. By June 30, 2011, there were 9,409 open-ended, investment funds registered with the Cayman Islands Monetary Authority.

Licensing & Technology

We have expertise in handling licensing, procurement, sales (both direct and reseller/channel sales arrangements), professional services and technology transfer transactions that involve computer hardware and software, telecommunications, biotechnology and pharmaceuticals. Our experience ranges from representing countless small and mid-size companies in emerging markets to multinational transactions involving Fortune 500 corporations and the most advanced technologies.