John Paul Royle

John Royle is a managing director with Grant Thornton LLP in Grand Cayman, Cayman Islands, and has more than 25 years of insolvency and asset-recovery experience in both the U.K. and the Cayman Islands. He acts as an official or provisional liquidator or receiver of entities/assets by appointment of the Grand Court of the Cayman Islands. Mr. Royle’s appointments have involved contentious disputes, identifying and liquidating assets across multiple jurisdictions with investigations into allegations of fraud, mismanagement and misappropriation. He is the receiver of Axiom Legal Financing Fund, which was the first U.K. cross-border recognition of a Cayman SPC receivership. As the leader of the Cayman Island’s Football Association forensic investigation, Mr. Royle and his team conducted the forensic accounting tracing analysis of over 15 bank accounts with 15,000+ transactions in excess of US$20 million. He also was also the receiver of a share in a Cayman hold- co that held over $0.5bn of assets in the structure. Mr. Royle leads and acts as a voluntary liquidator of numerous Cayman Islands and Irish entities, and he has led local Cayman forensic engagements. He also acts as a BVI-authorized liquidator and has been appointed by the Cayman Court to conduct a sale of shares in JV disputes on the back of arbitral awards. Some of Mr. Royle’s other recent engagements include acting as provisional liquidator of a NYSE-listed entity with group entities in Cayman, BVI, Hong Kong and the PRC, as well as a number of official liquidations with assets located in various African countries, including, inter alia, Uganda, Angola and Burkina Faso. He also is the joint official liquidator of a Cayman company subject to a shareholder dispute with significant assets in the UAE and Saudi Arabia. Mr. Royle is a JIEB-qualified insolvency practitioner and a board member of RISA Cayman (Cayman’s member affiliation with INSOL International).