Fiona MacAdam

Fiona MacAdam is a partner in the Insolvency & Dispute Resolution Group of Walkers in the Cayman Islands. She advises debtors, creditors and insolvency practitioners on a broad range of restructur- ing and insolvency matters, with a particular focus on cross-border restructuring transactions, and she specializes in advising on both creditor and shareholder schemes of arrangement and formal insolvency procedures in the Cayman Islands. Ms. MacAdam has been involved in many of the leading and highprofile multi-jurisdictional restructuring cases in the offshore market over the last decade, including the successful cross-border restructurings of MIE Holdings Corp., Hilong Holding Ltd., McDermott International (which won Restructuring Deal of the Year at the 2021 IFLR America Awards), Global Indemnity Group, Mongolian Mining Corp. (which won Restructuring Deal of the Year at the 2018 IFLR Asia Awards), CHC Helicopters Group and the Ocean Rig Group (which remains the largest ever restructuring by value in the Cayman Islands (c. US$4bn)). She frequently appears before the Grand Court of the Cayman Islands on debt restructurings, as well as corporate restructurings, reorganisations, acquisitions and privatisations of Hong Kong-listed entities implemented by way of Cayman Islands schemes of arrangement. Amongst other current mandates, Ms. MacAdam is advising the Principal Liquidators of Herald Fund SPC (In Official Liquidation), a Cayman Islands hedge fund involved in multi-jurisdictional litigation concerning a US$2bn exposure to the Madoff Ponzi Scheme. Prior to joining Walkers, she worked in the Finance Department at Latham & Watkins in London, where she specialized in restructuring and turnaround work. Ms. MacAdam has experience with multi-jurisdictional and cross-border restructuring transactions, including advising on a number of schemes of arrangement. She is a member of the Cayman Islands Legal Practitioners Association and the Law Society of England and Wales, and she is a past chair of the Cayman Islands network of the International Women’s Insolvency & Restructuring Confederation Ltd. (IWIRC). Ms. MacAdam has been listed in Chambers Global for 2023 as an Up and Coming Dispute Resolution specialist, and as a Legal 500 Rising Star - Dispute Resolution, also in 2023. She also won the 2022 RISA Awards for Cayman Islands Attorney of the Year. Ms. MacAdam received her B.A. with honors from Durham University in England and her PgDL and LPC from the University of Law in Guildford, England.