Matthew Harders will join Collas Crill's Bermuda office at the end of November as counsel to support the growth of the firm’s insolvency and restructuring practice on the island.

Mr Harders, who moves to Bermuda from the firm’s Cayman office, is an experienced insolvency and restructuring litigation attorney with a particular focus on contentious insolvency, debt recovery and merger appraisals.

His practice covers winding up and bankruptcy petitions, provisional liquidations, restructuring and schemes of arrangement, cross-border insolvency and recognition proceedings, asset tracing and recovery, claims by and against officeholders, secured and unsecured debt recovery and security enforcement, together with related urgent and interlocutory injunctive relief and commercial, shareholder and trust disputes arising in an insolvency context.

Mr Harders also has significant experience in merger appraisal proceedings, most recently acting for dissenting shareholders in two complex, high-profile fair value appraisal actions arising from the take-private of US-listed companies, each valued at more than $1 billion.

Bermuda managing partner Lilla Zuill said: “Collas Crill's Bermuda offering is going from strength to strength and we are delighted to welcome Matt as we continue to grow our team to support expansion of our services.

“Matt will help me to drive the growth of our insolvency and restructuring practice in Bermuda and I have no doubt he will be a huge success here.”

Mr Harders said: “Bermuda is a key jurisdiction for insolvency and restructuring work, and I am determined to build a practice that delivers real value for our clients and the wider market.”

Mr Harders practised at a leading national law firm in Australia for more than five years before moving to the Cayman Islands in 2023. He joined Collas Crill in 2024.

Collas Crill is an offshore group with offices in Bermuda, BVI, Cayman, Guernsey, Jersey and London.