Claire Goldstein

Claire Goldstein is a partner in the Litigation & Insolvency team at Harneys in Tortola, British Virgin Islands. She has experience in complex multi-jurisdictional corporate and commercial litigation, trusts, fraud and asset-tracing, and insolvency and restructuring matters, and she has worked with a wide variety of clients. Ms. Goldstein regularly represents clients in the BVI courts on a number of interlocutory applications, including urgent applications for injunctions, the appointment of interim receivers and other forms of interim relief. She has worked on some of the leading cases in the jurisdiction, including the Fairfield litigation, where she represented a number of banks that had invested into Fairfield Sentry Ltd., which was a feeder fund into Bernard Madoff Investment Securities Limited. She also has worked on some of the largest and most complex enforcement claims in order to enforce foreign judgments and arbitral awards in the BVI. Called to the bar in 2004, Ms. Goldstein previously worked at Slaughter and May and Cleary Gottlieb Steen & Hamilton in London. She also was a lecturer in constitutional and administrative Law at St Hilda’s College, University of Oxford. Ms. Goldstein is recommended by Chambers and Legal 500 as a leading BVI practitioner. She is on the board of the BVI Restructuring and Insolvency Association (RISA), is a member of INSOL and the International Women’s Insolvency & Restructuring Con- federation (IWIRC), and is on the advisory board for the Trusts and Estates Litigation Forum. Ms. Goldstein received her LL.B. from the University of Leeds in 2001, her LL.M. in 2002 from the European University Institute and her B.C.L. in 2003 from the University of Oxford.