Member Profile

Guy advises and appears in the Cayman Islands Courts on behalf of provisional and official liquidators, creditors, shareholders, directors, managers and other professional service providers in relation to a broad range of pre and post liquidation disputes. He has acted in litigation involving widely varying commercial contexts and structures, but with a particular focus on distressed and failed investment funds.

Notable recent instructions include advising LDK Solar CO., Ltd (one of the world’s largest manufacturers of photovoltaic products) and its provisional liquidators in connection with the restructuring of over USD$700 million of offshore debt across the LDK group; acting for DPM Mellon (an affiliate of BNY Mellon) in connection with substantial claims arising from the US$500m liquidation of the Sphinx group of funds; and advising the provisional liquidators of Arcapita Investment Holdings Limited in respect of the US$1.2bn restructuring of the company and its parent, Arcapita Bank B.S.C. (c), a Shari’ah compliant Bahrain based investment bank.

Guy advises and appears in the Cayman Islands Courts on behalf of provisional and official liquidators, creditors, shareholders, directors, managers and other professional service providers in relation to a broad range of pre and post liquidation disputes.

• Solicitor of the Supreme Court of England and Wales, 1999 (non-practising)

• Attorney at Law Cayman Islands, 2005

• Solicitor British Virgin Islands, 2011

Guy is a regular contributor of articles and editorial to industry trade publications relevant to insolvency, restructuring and investment fund litigation.

Chambers and Partners report that Guy is “a very considered and technical lawyer; he accommodates innovative thinking and applies the law commercially” (2015), is a “a stupendously clever man… who has quickly established an impressive reputation in the

Cayman Islands” (2014), and is “extremely knowledgeable in the ins and outs of the legal system and how it applies to hedge funds” (2013). The International Who’s Who Legal names Guy as one of the leading Insolvency and Restructuring lawyers in Cayman.

In his spare time Guy is a keen mountaineer. On 20 May 2013 he achieved his life-long ambition of climbing Mount Everest.

Guy is sits on the Board of the Cayman Islands Cancer Society.