Grant Carroll

Partner, Head of Litigation, Insolvency & Restructuring, BVI
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Overview

Grant is a partner and head of Litigation, Insolvency & Restructuring in our BVI office. He has acted on some of the BVI’s most notable cases over the past decade. He has particular expertise in contentious and non-contentious cross-border restructuring and insolvency matters together with commercial and trusts litigation and claims involving fraud and breach of duty.

His practice encompasses the full range of BVI disputes and he is described as “a highly trusted adviser” who is an “exceptional lawyer and is able to achieve exactly what the client wants”. He regularly appears in the BVI Commercial Court and Court of Appeal as lead advocate.

Grant has additionally provided expert evidence on BVI law for the courts of other jurisdictions and regularly speaks at seminars and conferences. HE is a member of the board of the BVI Restructuring and Insolvency Specialists Association (RISA). He was called to the bar of England and Wales in 2005 and moved to the BVI in 2013.

Expertise

  • Insolvency & Corporate Restructuring
  • Litigation
  • Banking Disputes
  • Corporate and Financial Services Disputes
  • Enforcement of Judgments and Awards
  • Funds Disputes
  • Regulatory
  • Shareholder and Valuation Disputes
  • Trusts Advisory Group
  • Trusts Disputes and Applications

Work Highlights

(*prior to joining Campbells)

  • Acted for the Brazilian Constellation Group and successfully obtained the first ever ‘light-touch’ provisional liquidation in the BVI, which was part of a wider cross-border multi-jurisdictional restructuring.
  • Acted for a significant number of creditors and office holders in liquidations and restructurings (including schemes of arrangement), and has notably acted on various Madoff feeder related matters as well as the Luckin Coffee matter.
  • Acted for the Joint Liquidators of FTX Digital Markets in the Bahamas and the Joint Liquidators of Three Arrows Capital Limited, the crypto fund previously valued in excess of US$3bn.
  • Acted in the Tethyan Mining v IRP litigation, involving an application to enforce a US$6bn arbitration award. Such matters often require the seeking or the resisting of urgent injunctive relief in the BVI together with the appointment of a receiver and interim injunctive relief.
  • Acted in many matters involving third party disclosure and Norwich Pharmacal relief.
  • Regularly instructed in shareholder disputes, often involving allegations of unfair prejudice, and where derivative leave is required. Represented the successful party at first instance in substantial litigation involving an airline and acted in the substantial and long running Emmerson v Renova litigation.
  • Representing trustees, protectors and beneficiaries in relation to their rights under offshore trust arrangements, including with relation to international tax investigations and the exchange of information.

Qualifications and Admissions

  • 2013 – British Virgin Islands
  • 2005 – England and Wales

Prior Career History

  • Ogier, BVI, 2018-2023
  • Walkers BVI, 2013 to 2018
  • English Bar

Professional Associations

  • RISA (BVI chapter of INSOL)
  • BVI Bar Association
  • BVI Arbitration Group

Recognition and Awards

  • Grant is recognised as a ‘Next Generation Partner’ in Legal 500.