Matthew Harders

Senior Associate. Matthew is a highly skilled commercial litigation attorney with a focus on insolvency, restructuring, and debt recovery. He joined Collas Crill's Insolvency and Corporate Disputes team as a Senior Associate in October 2024 and is based in the Cayman Islands. Matthew has substantial experience in all aspects of insolvency, restructuring, financial services and general commercial litigation practice, including complex contractual disputes, shareholder disputes, trusts and trust management, urgent and interlocutory injunctions, winding up and bankruptcy petitions, restructuring and schemes of arrangement, asset recovery, secured and unsecured debt recovery and security enforcement. Matthew practiced in Australia for more than five years before moving to the Cayman Islands in 2023. Previously a Senior Associate in the Insolvency and Litigation team of Thomson Geer Lawyers, Matthew was the only solicitor within Thomson Geer engaged directly by upper management to recover debts owed to the Firm on a national basis, successfully recovering hundreds of thousands of dollars owed to the Firm, slashing the Firm's Bad Debts liability. · Collas Crill

Cayman IslandsLitigation, Insolvency & Restructuring

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Senior Associate in Collas Crill’s Insolvency and Corporate Disputes team based in the Cayman Islands, specialising in commercial litigation with a focus on insolvency, restructuring and debt recovery. Joined Collas Crill in October 2024 after more than five years' practice in Australia, where he was a Senior Associate in the Insolvency and Litigation team at Thomson Geer.

Practice areas

LitigationInsolvency & RestructuringDebt RecoveryFinancial ServicesTrustsCorporate / CommercialAsset Recovery

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Cayman Islands

Collas Crill · Senior Associate. Matthew is a highly skilled commercial litigation attorney with a focus on insolvency, restructuring, and debt recovery. He joined Collas Crill's Insolvency and Corporate Disputes team as a Senior Associate in October 2024 and is based in the Cayman Islands. Matthew has substantial experience in all aspects of insolvency, restructuring, financial services and general commercial litigation practice, including complex contractual disputes, shareholder disputes, trusts and trust management, urgent and interlocutory injunctions, winding up and bankruptcy petitions, restructuring and schemes of arrangement, asset recovery, secured and unsecured debt recovery and security enforcement. Matthew practiced in Australia for more than five years before moving to the Cayman Islands in 2023. Previously a Senior Associate in the Insolvency and Litigation team of Thomson Geer Lawyers, Matthew was the only solicitor within Thomson Geer engaged directly by upper management to recover debts owed to the Firm on a national basis, successfully recovering hundreds of thousands of dollars owed to the Firm, slashing the Firm's Bad Debts liability.

Cayman Islands

Expertise

Insolvency and corporate disputesRestructuring and schemes of arrangementWinding up and bankruptcy petitionsAsset recovery and security enforcementComplex contractual and shareholder disputesUrgent and interlocutory injunctions

Education

Bachelor of Laws and Legal Practice (with Distinction), The Flinders University of South Australia
Bachelor of Business (Business Economics), The Flinders University of South Australia
Bachelor of Letters (Italian), The Flinders University of South Australia