Corey Byrne

Corey is a senior associate in Ogier's Dispute Resolution team, where he specialises in insolvency and restructuring disputes. He has experience acting for insolvency practitioners, receivers, creditors, investment funds, directors, shareholders and distressed companies on a range of insolvency related issues, as well as shareholder and investor disputes and complex cross-border litigation involving financial services, digital assets, fraud and asset tracing.

Background and experience

Based in Ogier's Cayman office, Corey advises Cayman Islands-domiciled companies, directors, insolvency practitioners, receivers, creditors and investment funds involved in contentious and non-contentious restructuring and insolvency matters, corporate rescues, winding up petitions and formal insolvency appointments. Corey also represents corporations and individuals in high value and complex cross-border commercial litigation including enforcement of foreign judgments and arbitral awards, fraud and asset-tracing claims and disputes involving cryptocurrency and digital assets.

Corey specialises in shareholder and investor disputes involving just and equitable winding up petitions, derivative claims and inspectorship applications. Corey appeared before the Judicial Committee of the Privy Council in FamilyMart China Holding Co Ltd v Ting Chuan (Cayman Islands) Holding Corporation [2023] UKPC 33 and Tianrui (International) Holding Company Ltd v China Shanshui Cement Group Ltd [2024] UKPC 36, two of the most significant decisions concerning the rights of shareholders of Cayman Islands-incorporated companies.

Corey is a member of INSOL International, co-chair of the Social and Entertainment Committee of the Recovery and Insolvency Specialists Association (Cayman) Limited (RISA Cayman) and a member of the Cayman Islands committee of the Crypto Fraud and Asset Recovery Network. He regularly authors articles for leading legal journals and publications across a broad range of topics, including corporate insolvency, corporate law and asset recovery. In recognition of his contribution to the insolvency profession in the Cayman Islands, Corey was named "Next Gen of the Year" at the peer-voted 2024 RISA Cayman Awards.

Before joining Ogier in 2022, Corey was an associate in the Dispute Resolution teams of two international law firms based in Australia. While at these firms, Corey specialised in insolvency disputes, regulatory investigations and proceedings, class actions, commissions of inquiry and general commercial and corporate disputes.

Corey completed a Bachelor of Arts and Bachelor of Laws (First Class Honours) from Monash University in 2014 and completed a Master of Laws from the University of Melbourne in 2020.

Admitted in: 
2022 - Cayman Islands
2016 - Supreme Court of Victoria
2016 - High Court of Australia