Go to content
${facet.Name} (${facet.TotalResults})
${item.Icon}
${ item.ShortDescription }
${ item.SearchLabel?.ViewModel?.Label }
See all results
${facet.Name} (${facet.TotalResults})
${item.Icon}
${ item.ShortDescription }
${ item.SearchLabel?.ViewModel?.Label }
See all results

Biography

Anya Allen
Anya Allen Harneys front portrait image

Anya Allen

Counsel | Cayman Islands
+1 345 815 2967 anya.allen@harneys.com
Biography

Anya Allen is a member of our Litigation & Insolvency and Restructuring team in the Cayman Islands. She has experience in insolvency and restructuring, appraisal litigation under section 238 of the Companies Act, asset tracing and enforcement, and fraud matters. She has appeared at all levels of the Cayman court system from the Grand Court to the Privy Council. Before joining Harneys in 2018, Anya worked at Meredith Connell and at Duncan Cotterill in New Zealand, where she was involved in large-scale asset recovery litigation, Crown matters, and insurance litigation, and appeared as sole counsel before the District and High Courts. Anya ...

Anya Allen is a member of our Litigation & Insolvency and Restructuring team in the Cayman Islands. She has experience in insolvency and restructuring, appraisal litigation under section 238 of the Companies Act, asset tracing and enforcement, and fraud matters. She has appeared at all levels of the Cayman court system from the Grand Court to the Privy Council.

Before joining Harneys in 2018, Anya worked at Meredith Connell and at Duncan Cotterill in New Zealand, where she was involved in large-scale asset recovery litigation, Crown matters, and insurance litigation, and appeared as sole counsel before the District and High Courts.

Anya is a member of RISA and IWIRC and is a regular contributor to Harneys Offshore Litigation Blog.

${ !hiddenTextVisible ?"Read more": " Show less"}

Advising Luckin Coffee Inc, in a restructuring in which the company successfully compromised its debts and liabilities in the Cayman Islands and the US through parallel processes which included a scheme of arrangement in the Cayman Islands.

Advising company-side on a number of appraisal arbitrage valuation (s. 238) proceedings, including In re iKang Healthcare Group, Inc. and In re Shanda Games and appearing as junior counsel at the Privy Council;

Advising an award creditor in respect of its international efforts to enforce a substantial arbitral award, including obtaining asset disclosure orders in the Cayman Islands;

Regulatory work advising clients in respect of their obligations under the Monetary Authority Act and ancillary legislation and defence of regulatory enforcement measures; and

Advising liquidators and court-appointed managers on their obligations and asset tracing efforts.

Cayman Islands
2017

New Zealand (not practising)
2012

University of Otago (LLB)
2011

University of Otago (BA)
2011

Authored by Anya

Offshore Litigation Blog
Wrapping it up
Offshore Litigation Blog
Beddoes, Anti-suits and Déjà vu
Offshore Litigation Blog
Arbitrating trust affairs – Come for arbitration, stay for legal proceedings
Article
Privy Council dismisses challenge to Cayman Islands Court of Appeal decision on Norwich Pharmacal relief in support of award enforcement proceedings
Offshore Litigation Blog
Director liability for company breach of contract – the rule in Said v Butt revisited
Article
Harneys advises Luckin Coffee on its successful restructuring
Offshore Litigation Blog
Grand Court rejects notion of “hybrid” orders and emphasises the finality principle
Offshore Litigation Blog
The English Supreme Court clarifies estoppel by convention
Offshore Litigation Blog
Cayman Islands Court of Appeal hands down leading decision on Norwich Pharmacal order in Cayman and refuses permission to appeal to the Privy Council
Offshore Litigation Blog
The Extended One-Stop-Shop (Fiona Trust) Principle
Offshore Litigation Blog
Delaware Courts lean towards market-based valuation approaches
Offshore Litigation Blog
UK Supreme Court brings the distorted principle of “reflective loss” back into focus
Offshore Litigation Blog
Grand Court provides jurisdictional guidance on section 92(c) of the Companies Law and its application to exempted limited partnerships
Offshore Litigation Blog
Contempt of court for ticket touting in breach of court order
Offshore Litigation Blog
Judicial comity between Courts in the Cayman Islands and in Hong Kong
Guide
Directors’ duties to consider the interests of creditors when nearing insolvency
Offshore Litigation Blog
Victory for Shanda Games in Privy Council minority discount appeal
Article
16 named in 2020 promotions
Article
Norwich Pharmacal relief – a flexible tool to fight fraud