Well-known local attorney, Robin McMillan, has recently left Appleby and will join HSM Chambers as Senior Counsel from 7 January 2013.

Robin specialises in international commercial litigation, insolvency, trusts, company law, judicial review and public law. He has extensive experience in several common-law jurisdictions.

Having been consistently ranked by PLC Which Lawyer? for his work in dispute resolution and restructuring and insolvency since 2007. Robin was recognised for his commercial and international dispute resolution experience in the 2012 edition of Legal 500 Caribbean as well as for restructuring and insolvency (2011) by PLC Which Lawyer?

Robin joined Appleby in 1998 after spending two years as crown counsel with the Cayman Islands Government legal department. He was also a senior government lawyer for more than ten years in Bermuda, acting in numerous cases in the Supreme Court and the Court of Appeal.

He was a member of the Law Society Sub Committee that considered the introduction of a Commercial Court in the Cayman Islands as well as the Law Society Sub Committee that considered the reform of the Freedom of Information Law in the Cayman Islands. Robin is a member of the State Bar of California, and the Cayman Islands Law Society.

In recent years Robin has been heavily involved in the winding up of BCCI (Overseas) in the Cayman Islands, the world’s largest ever banking insolvency. He acted for liquidators of the Flightlease group of companies (part of the SwissAir Group) in a dispute over a joint venture involving the purchase of aircraft from Airbus. The litigation was complex, requiring the coordination of litigation across multiple jurisdictions.

His most recent claim to fame was in undertaking the first ever petition to the European Court of Human Rights on behalf of a Caymanian petitioner.

Huw Moses OBE said. “I look forward to Robin joining our legal team at HSM Chambers and believe that his recognised expertise in the areas of human rights, judicial review and in the handling of complex commercial litigation will be welcomed by clients both locally and internationally.”

Notes:

HSM Chambers was founded in October 2012 by Huw Moses OBE (former Managing Partner of Appleby) and Derek Jones (former Managing Partner of Higgs & Johnson). The firm is based at Buckingham Square and is growing rapidly. The firm expects to add further legal staff during 2013.