Colleen Farrington
Senior Counsel
British Virgin Islands
Colleen Farrington is a senior counsel in the Insolvency & Dispute Resolution Group in the BVI office.
Her practice includes commercial litigation as well as insolvency litigation. Colleen also advises office holders in complex cross-border proceedings, high net worth individuals, high street banks, companies, corporate service providers, creditors and liquidators.
She advises clients in the United Kingdom and the USA and regularly represents clients in court. Her matters have included substantial hearings in the BVI Commercial Court as well as appeals in the Eastern Caribbean Supreme Court in the Court of Appeal and the Privy Council. For the past two years, she has acted in the Emmerson litigation in the BVI Commercial Court, which is one of the most substantial and complex cases to have been brought in the jurisdiction in recent years. The Emmerson litigation has also led her to appear in the Court of Appeal on many occasions with leading counsel and an extraordinary counsel team. She successfully represented Emmerson International Corporation in its urgent application to the Privy Council in May 2019.
Colleen also successfully represented an ultra high net worth individual who obtained urgent freezing and receivership orders in the Commercial Court in March 2018 and again in July 2020, as well as a foreign Trustee in Bankruptcy who obtained recognition in May 2016, which was upheld by the Court of Appeal in January 2017.
She advises clients in the United Kingdom and the USA and regularly represents clients in court. Her matters have included substantial hearings in the BVI Commercial Court as well as appeals in the Eastern Caribbean Supreme Court in the Court of Appeal and the Privy Council. For the past two years, she has acted in the Emmerson litigation in the BVI Commercial Court, which is one of the most substantial and complex cases to have been brought in the jurisdiction in recent years. The Emmerson litigation has also led her to appear in the Court of Appeal on many occasions with leading counsel and an extraordinary counsel team. She successfully represented Emmerson International Corporation in its urgent application to the Privy Council in May 2019.
Colleen also successfully represented an ultra high net worth individual who obtained urgent freezing and receivership orders in the Commercial Court in March 2018 and again in July 2020, as well as a foreign Trustee in Bankruptcy who obtained recognition in May 2016, which was upheld by the Court of Appeal in January 2017.
Experience and recent work
Prior to joining Walkers in 2015, Colleen trained at a leading law firm in the BVI. She joined that practice in the Litigation and Insolvency Group where she regularly appeared in court for commercial and insolvency litigation cases. She acted for a number of creditors of an offshore feeder fund in connection with the Madoff Ponzi scheme and she also acted for high net worth individuals in a breach of contract dispute. Both matters involved substantial litigation in the BVI Commercial Court, which led her to appear in the Court of Appeal and preparation for final appeal to the Privy Council where she was seconded to London.
Qualifications
Admitted in:
- British Virgin Islands
- England and Wales (not practising)
Education:
- LLB, University of the West of England, UK
- BVC, Post Graduate Diploma, Bristol Institute of Legal Practice, UK
- Introductory Certificate, International Arbitration, The Chartered Institute of Arbitrators
Colleen is a member of the BVI Bar Association and the BVI Recovery and Insolvency Specialists Association. She is also a former member of the BVI Parole Board and the Board of Governors of the Hamilton Lavity Stoutt Community College.
Colleen is a Notary Public in the BVI.
Team Members
Other team members with related expertise
Meenaa Azmayesh
Senior Counsel
British Virgin Islands
Samantha Hollingworth
Senior Associate
British Virgin Islands