Ms. Laura S. Hatfield

Laura S. Hatfield is a partner with Bedell Cristin in Grand Cayman, Cayman Islands, and heads its Litigation, Regulatory, and Insolvency & Restructuring groups in the Cayman Islands. She has experience in acting for a variety of corporate clients and individuals focusing on commercial litigation, insolvency and restructuring, licensing and other regulatory matters. Her clients are based in the Cayman Islands, U.S. and Europe and include Big Four accountancy practices, hotels, retail stores, entities in the funds and insurance sectors, and statutory and regulatory bodies, many matters of which have had a multi-jurisdiction component. Ms. Hatfield has more than 30 years of experience in taking disputes ranging across company law, professional negligence claims, governance advice, licensing and other regulatory issues to court, as well as alternative dispute resolution, such as mediation and arbitration. She was qualified as a solicitor of the Supreme Court of England and Wales in 1989 and was admitted as a Cayman Islands attorney-at-law in 2001. A member of the Law Society of England and Wales, Cayman Islands Law Society, ABI, IWIRC and INSOL, Ms. Hatfield has significant experience in cross-border and multi-jurisdictional cases, including regulatory regimes, and often works closely with U.S. attorneys and insolvency professionals. She is listed in the International Who?s Who for Asset Recovery, as a ?Leading individual? in the Legal 500 Caribbean from 2019-23, and as a Band 4 attorney in Chambers Global for 2023. Ms. Hatfield received her B.Sc. from the University of Exeter in England.