Fiona MacAdam
Partner
Cayman Islands
Fiona has extensive experience advising debtors, creditors and insolvency practitioners on restructuring and insolvency matters.
She focuses on cross-border restructuring transactions and advising on both creditor and shareholder schemes of arrangement and formal insolvency procedures in the Cayman Islands. She also has experience of multi-jurisdictional and cross-border restructuring transactions, including advising on a number of schemes of arrangement.
Fiona is part of our Insolvency & Dispute Resolution Group, and has been involved in many leading and high-profile multi-jurisdictional restructuring cases in the offshore market. She often appears before the Grand Court of the Cayman Islands on debt restructurings, as well as corporate restructurings, reorganisations, and acquisitions and privatisations of Hong Kong-listed entities implemented by Cayman Islands schemes of arrangement.
Fiona is part of our Insolvency & Dispute Resolution Group, and has been involved in many leading and high-profile multi-jurisdictional restructuring cases in the offshore market. She often appears before the Grand Court of the Cayman Islands on debt restructurings, as well as corporate restructurings, reorganisations, and acquisitions and privatisations of Hong Kong-listed entities implemented by Cayman Islands schemes of arrangement.
Experience and recent work
Before joining Walkers, Fiona worked in the Finance department of Latham & Watkins in London. Here she specialised in restructuring and turnaround work.
Qualifications
Admitted in:
- Cayman Islands
- England and Wales (not practising)
Education:
- BA (Hons), Durham University, England, UK
- PgDL, LPC, The University of Law, Guildford, England, UK
Fiona is a member of the Cayman Islands Legal Practitioners Association and the Law Society of England and Wales. Fiona is a Notary Public of the Cayman Islands.
She is also the past Chair of the Cayman Islands network of the International Women's Insolvency & Restructuring Confederation Ltd. (IWIRC).
She is also the past Chair of the Cayman Islands network of the International Women's Insolvency & Restructuring Confederation Ltd. (IWIRC).
2023 Chambers Global - Up and Coming - Dispute Resolution - "Fiona is a very talented lawyer, with a great attention to, and focus on, details. She ensures the legal output is at the level it needs to be to get the result."
2023 Legal 500 - Rising Star - Dispute Resolution
2022 RISA Awards – Winner of Cayman Islands Attorney of the Year 2022
2022 Legal 500 - Rising Star - Dispute Resolution
2021 Legal 500 - Rising Star - Dispute Resolution
2020 Legal 500 - Rising Star - Dispute Resolution
2019 Legal 500 - Next Generation Lawyer - Dispute Resolution
2018 IFLR Asia Awards - Restructuring Deal of the Year - Mongolian Mining Restructuring
2018 Legal 500 - Recommended Lawyer - Dispute Resolution
2018 Author of In-House Lawyer Restructuring & Insolvency: Cayman Islands
2017 Legal 500 - Recommended Lawyer - Dispute Resolution
2017 Author of In-House Lawyer Restructuring & Insolvency: Cayman Islands
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