About Us
Established in 2012, Cayman Islands based RISA has swiftly grown to over 400 members. Focusing on delivering educational and networking events, RISA’s mandate is to investigate and share best practices amongst industry practitioners in the fields of insolvency, restructuring and litigation. The Cayman Islands is respected worldwide as an international financial services centre built upon solid, yet appropriate regulation, a legislative structure based on English Common Law and a stable political environment. It is the domicile of choice for the world’s hedge funds and private equity funds with over 10,000 registered alternative investment entities.
2024/2025 Executive Committee
Cassandra Ronaldson
Cassandra has over ten years of experience in the Cayman Islands and Australia managing a variety of corporate insolvency and advisory appointments. During her career, Cassandra has acquired experience working with stakeholders of distressed entities across a wide range of industries, including investment funds, retail, nonprofit, property, mining services and agriculture.
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Spencer Vickers
Spencer has over a decade of experience in insolvency, restructuring and cross-border litigation. Spencer advises clients on a wide range of complex disputes, with specific experience in the financial services, insurance and energy industries. Spencer regularly advises insolvency practitioners, creditors of distressed entities and shareholders.
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Martin Trott
Martin specialises in corporate restructuring and insolvency, as an insolvency practitioner in the Cayman Islands and qualified accountant with over 27 years’ experience. He is a director of R&H Restructuring (Cayman) Ltd., which is an affiliate of Rawlinson & Hunter in the Cayman Islands, of which Martin is a partner.
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Bhavesh Patel
Bhavesh is an experienced litigator specialising in commercial litigation and contentious trusts and private client disputes. He has advised international clients on a variety of high profile matters and frequently appears before the Cayman and BVI Courts. He is a regular speaker at international conferences, and often provides expert evidence on matters of Cayman or BVI law in proceedings.
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Farrah Sbaiti
Farrah has been practising as an attorney in the Cayman Islands since 2016. Prior to that she practised in England where she qualified as a barrister and a solicitor. Farrah has experience in all aspects of commercial litigation and corporate insolvency and is an experienced advocate who regularly attends court for contested interim applications, other interlocutory hearings and trials.
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Patrick Sakowski
Patrick is an experienced insolvency and restructuring professional (12+ years) with a focus on corporate and personal insolvencies, financial restructurings and turnaround assignments.
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Education
The Education Committee is responsible for organising technical events for our members, including quarterly technical events, one day seminars and breakfast events.
- Richard Murphy, FFP
- Adam Crane, Baker and Partners
- Audra Graham, Deloitte & Touche LLP
- Nicholas Fox, Mourant Ozannes (Cayman) LLP
- Mark Burrows, Claritas
- Kim Leck, Quantuma International
- Nienke Lillington, Campbells
- Cally Rush, Teneo
- Charlotte Walker, Appleby
- James McGrath, FTI Consulting
Social & Entertainment
The Events Committee is responsible for organising social and networking events, including dinners, cocktail events, golf tournaments and other events.
- Carolyn Lum, BDO
- Corey Byrne, Ogier
- Jamie McGee, Nelsons
- Ross McLeod, Appleby
- Paula Richmond, Chris Johnson Assoc. Ltd.
- Eli Reback, Alvarez & Marsal
- Nigel Smith, Carey Olsen
- Robert Shifman, Kroll (Cayman) Ltd.
- Sam Hall, Walkers (Cayman) LLP
- Matthew Varendorff, Deloitte & Touche LLP
Legal & Regulatory
The Legal & Regulatory Committee is responsible for representing members’ interests in terms of changes to legislation, disseminating information from the Courts and promoting best practice approaches to liquidation related matters.
- Peter Hayden, Mourant Ozannes
- Kai McGriele, Bedell Cristin
- Michael Green, Deloitte & Touche LLP
- John Harris, Nelsons
- Andrew Jackson, Appleby
- Sebastian Said, Appleby
- Paul Smith, Forbes Hare
- Quentin Cregan, Maples Group
- Liam Faulker, Campbells
- Paul Kennedy, Campbells
Membership & Communication
The Membership & Communications Committee is responsible for informing the membership of upcoming events, maintaining RISA’s social platforms and being a resource for existing and potential members.
- Luke Burgess-Shannon, Mourant Ozannes (Cayman) LLP
- Daniel Coelho, Appleby
- Sam Keogh, Campbells
- Patrick Sakowski, Quantuma International
- Justin Dragicevic, Grant Thornton
- Kieran Linton, Deloitte & Touche LLP
- Peter Munn, Alvarez & Marsal
- Britt Viljoen, BDO
- Owen Walker, R&H Restructuring (Cayman) Ltd.
- Nick Ward, Conyers