Jennifer Colegate

Jennifer Colegate is a partner in Collas Crill’s Dispute Resolution team in Grand Cayman, Cayman Islands. She is a commercial litigator specializing in cross-border insolvency and restructuring. Ms. Colegate has experience advising on various issues arising in complex cross-border insolvencies, most notably arising from her engagement by the provisional liquidators to a number of Lehman Brothers entities in the Asia-Pacific region, and more recently in connection with the liquidation of Caledonian Bank Limited. She has assisted in advising on restructurings of SIVs, RMBS vehicles and other structured products adversely affected by the financial and liquidity crises, touching on a range of jurisdictions. Related to her insolvency work, Ms. Colegate has regularly advised on matters concerning assettracing and recovery. In addition to her time in private practice, she has spent extended periods of time on secondment to banking clients in both London and Hong Kong. Prior to moving to Cayman, Ms. Colegate worked at Mayer Brown JSM, Hong Kong in its Asian restructuring team. Before moving to Hong Kong in 2012, she was a senior associate in London specializing in contentious insolvency matters, having joined Mayer Brown International LLP in 2007 following completion of pupillage at South Square Chambers.