Jordan McErlean

Jordan McErlean is a Senior Associate in Cayman Islands Litigation & Restructuring practice.

Jordan joined Conyers as an Associate in 2017 after obtaining a first class honours’ law degree and subsequently, a master’s degree in law from University College London (UCL), a Russell Group university. Since joining Conyers, he has undertaken secondments to both the Bermuda and Hong Kong offices of Conyers, and Wilberforce Chambers in London, a leading barristers’ chambers specialising in general commercial litigation, civil fraud, trusts, insolvency and other areas. Additionally, Legal 500: Caribbean describes Jordan as a ‘Rising star who will go far.’

Jordan’s practice covers all areas of international commercial litigation, including trusts, insolvency, shareholder disputes, professional negligence, civil fraud and asset tracing, cryptocurrency related litigation, employment, arbitration, and judicial review. Jordan has been involved in a number of major Cayman Islands decisions on a variety of these issues at first instance and appellate level. Jordan is user friendly and gives clients practical commercial advice, backed up by meticulous legal research.

Jordan has acted in relation to a broad variety of trust matters, including recently a major trial involving Bermuda purpose trusts, giving rise to a range of novel issues.

Jordan has acted in relation to some of the largest shareholder disputes in Cayman Islands history and is well versed in advising shareholders on their rights.

Jordan is adept in all aspects of insolvency (creditors winding up petitions, just and equitable winding up petitions) and restructuring law (schemes of arrangement etc), and in assisting insolvency professionals in making recoveries for stakeholders whether for example through claw back claims, or by making claims against third parties such as against service providers or directors.

Jordan also has particular expertise in all aspects of cross-border legal issues, including the enforcement of foreign judgments, the enforcement of foreign arbitral awards, facilitating cross-border insolvency and restructuring proceedings between Hong Kong, the USA (in support of chapter 11/15 proceedings), the Cayman Islands and elsewhere. Jordan has also assisted Queen’s Counsel in preparing various pieces of expert evidence on Cayman Islands law for presentation to foreign courts, in the United States and otherwise.

Jordan is an expert in assisting individuals and companies in relation to cryptocurrency related litigation including recovery of stolen tokens through legal means.