Member Profile

Anna is an experienced litigation and alternative dispute resolution partner with over fifteen years post qualification experience gained under the relevant legal systems of London, Paris, Rome, the Cayman Islands and Jersey, Channel Islands.

Anna’s litigation experience includes directors’ governance and shareholder disputes; all aspects of insolvency, including cross-border liquidations and international asset tracing actions, enforcement of foreign judgments, arbitral awards and injunctive relief; breach of trust actions, director and trustee liability; insurance and reinsurance claims and engineering and construction disputes.

Languages: Italian & English: Bilingual; French: Fluent; Spanish: Competent

Travers Thorp Alberga is a boutique Cayman Islands law firm. Our business model has been designed to be different and relevant to client needs in a changing legal and economic environment:

• Our clients can rely on the constant direct involvement of a highly experienced partner with a proven track record. Our partners have on average fifteen years relevant experience and many were heads of department at the largest Cayman Islands law firms. Clients receive intuitive and incisive legal advice without internal layering and duplication.

• Our streamlined internal operating model allows us to offer highly competitive and flexible fee arrangements that are compelling.

• With no affiliated fiduciary service company, our advice is free of the conflicts of interest that otherwise arise.

We advise on all aspects of dispute resolution; government relations and regulation; investment funds; finance; corporate; private client and real estate and specialize in restructuring and insolvency from offices in the Cayman Islands and Hong Kong.

Anna has conducted high profile arbitrations and mediations under the auspices of the major ADR bodies, particularly, the ICC, LME, LCIA and AAA and has experience in drafting ADR agreements in accordance with the rules and regulations of those bodies. Anna is working on establishing a Dispute Resolution Centre in the Cayman Islands to attract more arbitrations and mediations to the Island.

Throughout her career, Anna has acted in a number of high profile matters, notably representing the Italian government, the French, British and Belgian railways and multi-million dollar listed corporations, trustees and high net-worth individuals.

1987-88 University of Naples, Italy

Jurisprudence

1984-87 New Hall, University of Cambridge

Modern and Medieval Languages (Italian, French and Russian), MA Hons

1980-84 Forest Gate School, London

English Secondary Education (13 O’Levels and 4 A’ Levels)

1976-79 Scuola Media Luca Tozzi, Caserta, Italy

Italian Secondary Education (IB Diploma)

1988-90 College of Law, Lancaster Gate, London:

Common Professional and Law Society Final Examination

1992 Admitted as a Solicitor of the Supreme Court in England and Wales (not currently practising)

1996 Admitted as an Attorney-at-Law in the Cayman Islands

- Article entitled "Alternative Dispute Resolution in the Cayman Islands" (published on www.Mondaq.com) and various internal memoranda on arbitration; conducted internal training seminars on ADR and dispute resolution agreements.

- International Succession – Garb & Woods – co-contributor to the 1st Edition of the Cayman Islands’ Chapter.

- Cayman Islands Chapter for Global Legal Insights publication: Litigation & Dispute Resolution, 2nd and 3rd Editions and currently working on 4th edition.

- Cayman Islands Chapter for Global Legal Insights publication: Litigation & Dispute Resolution, 2nd and 3rd Editions, as a result of the circulation of which Travers Thorp Alberga was voted “Dispute Resolution Firm of the Year” for 2013 and 2014